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Al Richardson (historian)

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Al Richardson (20 December 1941 – 22 November 2003) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist. [1]

32 relations: Alliance for Workers' Liberty, Anti-Stalinist left, Barnsley, Communist Party of Great Britain, Forest Hill School, Historian, International Marxist Group, Isaac Deutscher, Jim Higgins (British politician), Labour movement, Lecturer, Leon Trotsky, Militant (Trotskyist group), Paris, Popular front, Publishing, Revolutionary Communist League (UK), Revolutionary History, Sam Bornstein, South London, Student activism, The Guardian, Theology, Trade union, Trotskyism, United Kingdom, University of Exeter, University of Hull, Vietnam Solidarity Campaign, Woolley Colliery, Workers Revolutionary Party (UK), Workers' International League (1985).

Alliance for Workers' Liberty

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty, is a Trotskyist group in Britain.

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Anti-Stalinist left

The anti-Stalinist left comprises various kinds of left-wing politics critical of Joseph Stalin, of Stalinism as a political philosophy, and of the actual system of governance Stalin implemented as dictator of the Soviet Union.

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Barnsley

Barnsley (locally) is a town in South Yorkshire, England, located halfway between Leeds and Sheffield.

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Communist Party of Great Britain

The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a British communist party which was the largest communist party in Great Britain, although it never became a mass party like those in France and Italy.

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Forest Hill School

Forest Hill School is a boy's secondary comprehensive school located in Forest Hill, in the London Borough of Lewisham.

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Historian

A historian is a person who studies and writes about the past, and is regarded as an authority on it.

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International Marxist Group

The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982.

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Isaac Deutscher

Isaac Deutscher (3 April 1907 – 19 August 1967) was a Polish writer, journalist and political activist who moved to the United Kingdom at the outbreak of World War II.

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Jim Higgins (British politician)

Jim Higgins (2 December 1930 – 13 October 2002) was a British revolutionary socialist and leading member of the International Socialists.

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Labour movement

The labour movement or labor movement consists of two main wings, the trade union movement (British English) or labor union movement (American English), also called trade unionism or labor unionism on the one hand, and the political labour movement on the other.

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Lecturer

Lecturer is an academic rank within many universities, though the meaning of the term varies somewhat from country to country.

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Leon Trotsky

Leon Trotsky (born Lev Davidovich Bronstein; – 21 August 1940) was a Russian revolutionary, theorist, and Soviet politician.

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Militant (Trotskyist group)

Militant, commonly called the Militant tendency, was a Trotskyist entryist group designed to infiltrate the British Labour Party.

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Paris

Paris is the capital and most populous city of France, with an area of and a population of 2,206,488.

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Popular front

A popular front is a broad coalition of different political groupings, usually made up of leftists and centrists.

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Publishing

Publishing is the dissemination of literature, music, or information—the activity of making information available to the general public.

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Revolutionary Communist League (UK)

The Revolutionary Communist League was a small Trotskyist group in Britain.

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Revolutionary History

Revolutionary History was a British academic journal covering the history of the far left.

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Sam Bornstein

Sam Bornstein (1920 - 1990) was a British Trotskyist historian and activist.

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South London

South London is the southern part of London, England, south of the River Thames, and includes the historic districts of Southwark, Lambeth, Bankside and Greenwich.

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Student activism

Student activism is work by students to cause political, environmental, economic, or social change.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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Theology

Theology is the critical study of the nature of the divine.

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Trade union

A trade union or trades union, also called a labour union (Canada) or labor union (US), is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve many common goals; such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, and attaining better wages, benefits (such as vacation, health care, and retirement), and working conditions through the increased bargaining power wielded by the creation of a monopoly of the workers.

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Trotskyism

Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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University of Exeter

The University of Exeter is a public research university in Exeter, Devon, South West England, United Kingdom.

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University of Hull

The University of Hull is a public research university in Kingston upon Hull, a city in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England.

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Vietnam Solidarity Campaign

The Vietnam Solidarity Campaign (VSC) was originally set up in 1966 by activists around the International Group with the personal and financial support of Bertrand Russell.

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Woolley Colliery

Woolley Colliery is a village on the border between the Barnsley and Wakefield districts in Yorkshire, England.

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Workers Revolutionary Party (UK)

The Workers Revolutionary Party is a Trotskyist group in Britain once led by Gerry Healy.

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Workers' International League (1985)

The Workers' International League (WIL) was a British Trotskyist organisation that split in early 1987 from the Workers' Revolutionary Party (WRP) which had been led by Sheila Torrance.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Richardson_(historian)

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