Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1978)
British Trotskyist political organisation formed in 1978 / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Not to be confused with Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944); Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist); or Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 2024).
The Revolutionary Communist Party, known as the Revolutionary Communist Tendency until 1981, claimed to be a Trotskyist political organisation formed in 1978. From 1988 it published the journal Living Marxism. It started with only a few dozen supporters; its membership peaked at 200 in the mid-1990s.[1]
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Revolutionary Communist Party | |
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Founded | 1978; 46 years ago (1978) |
Dissolved | 1997; 27 years ago (1997) |
Split from | Revolutionary Communist Group |
Newspaper | The Next Step Living Marxism |
Ideology | 1978–1991 Communism Trotskyism 1991–1997 Libertarianism |
Political position | 1978–1991 Far-left 1991–1997 Syncretic |
Colors | Red |
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After 1991, the party abandoned Trotskyism and mainstream leftism before publicly taking a libertarian position. It was disbanded in 1997, although a number of former members maintain a loose political network to promote its ideas.