Workers' Fight
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Workers' Fight has been the name of several Trotskyist groups and publications in Britain.

Organisations

  • Workers' Fight is also the name of a group in England linked to the French Lutte Ouvrière that focuses on activity in large factory workplaces, rather than trade union or community-based work. They publish the journal Class Struggle on a bi-monthly basis.

  • Another group named Workers' Fight split from the Workers International League in 1998, publishing two editions of a newspaper of the same name before disintegrating.

Publications

  • Workers' Fight was the publication of the Revolutionary Socialist League
    Revolutionary Socialist League (UK, 1938)
    The first RSL was formed in early 1938 with the merger of two different parties, the Marxist League led by Harry Wicks and the Marxist Group led by C. L. R. James....

    , in the period when it was led by C. L. R. James
    C. L. R. James
    Cyril Lionel Robert James , who sometimes wrote under the pen-name J.R. Johnson, was an Afro-Trinidadian historian, journalist, socialist theorist and essayist. His works are influential in various theoretical, social, and historiographical contexts...

     in the late 1930s. A new collected edition of this paper was recently issued in Sweden.

  • Workers' Fight was also the original publication of the group now known as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty
    Alliance for Workers' Liberty
    The Alliance for Workers' Liberty , also known as Workers' Liberty, is a Trotskyist group in Britain. The group has a complex history but has always been identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna...

    . It appeared for a short period in 1967-1968 before the group joined the International Socialists as a faction. The group was expelled from IS in 1971 and was known by the same name as its publication again until it merged with Workers Power to form the International-Communist League in 1975.
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