Socialist Fight magazine – new statement of purpose
Leave a comment02/08/2015 by socialistfight
This is Ian Donovan’s summary of the discussions that took place between him and Socialist Group that resulted in the redrawing of the Aims of the Socialist Fight Magazine on a broader political basis and resulted in his joining the Editorial Board of the magazine.
The following text is the rewritten statement of political purpose of Socialist Fight, a magazine initiated by a grouping led by comrade Gerry Downing, a long time Trotskyist whose political origins were in the Workers Revolutionary Party. The magazine has now broadened out its political basis and I have agreed to join the editorial board. This re-written statement contains some important departures from some characteristic political weaknesses of the Trotskyist movement.
In particular, attention should be drawn to items 20 and 21 in the statement, which in effect argue for a different type of party model from that of the Trotskyist movement, and indeed different also from that movement’s progenitors in the early Communist International. In explicitly recognising the right of members of a revolutionary party – which we seek to build – to engage in public debate, criticism and disagreement about matters of theoretical analysis, and about strategy and tactics, the…
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