- Socialist Outlook
"Socialist Outlook" is either of two publications edited by supporters of the
Fourth International in Britain.The defunct "Socialist Outlook"
The first "Socialist Outlook" was the name of the
newspaper published by theSocialist Fellowship from December1948 until1954 . For much of that period, it was edited by John Lawrence and was formally published by an association ofleft wing members of the Labour Party. The paper's editorial policy was controlled by a group aroundGerry Healy . ThisTrotskyist group was privately known as "The Club ". "Socialist Outlook" was banned by the Labour Party's National Executive Committee in late 1954 and soon expired. "The Club" moved to selling Tribune instead.The current "Socialist Outlook"
The second "Socialist Outlook" is the publication of the
International Socialist Group , theTrotskyist organisation which is the British section of thereunified Fourth International . Launched as a bi-monthly magazine in 1988, the title "Socialist Outlook" was partly selected because, at that time, most of the ISG's members were also active in the Labour Party. It was published as a fortnightly newspaper between1992 and2002 . It is now a quarterly magazine and uses theISSN 0951-8657.'Socialist Outlook' was used as the electoral name of the International Socialist Group when it stood four candidates as part of the Socialist Alliance in the 2001 general election. [http://www.election.demon.co.uk/cand01.html] The candidates ran in Lambeth and Southwalk, Bristol, North Tyneside and Oxford East.
External links
* [http://www.isg-fi.org.uk/outlook/index.htm Socialist Outlook webpage]
* [http://www.labournet.org.uk/so/ Archive site of the pre-2003 newspaper]
* [http://books.google.com/books?id=gFsL_vVpoGAC&pg=PA47&lpg=PA47&dq=%22socialist+outlook%22&source=web&ots=tVgGS0OOaL&sig=t5MsseQSrRWuuvgVdpzLZsj78Xo#PPA49,M1 Account] of a Socialist Outlook supporter in the 1950s
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