- Socialist Organiser
"Socialist Organiser" was a weekly
socialist newspaper circulated in the British Labour Party. The newspaper was founded by the 1979Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory , which was renamed theSocialist Organiser Alliance .The newspaper was originally a vehicle for united work between the
International-Communist League (I-CL), theWorkers' Socialist League (who merged with the ICL to become a new WSL), Workers Power and independent leftists, such asKen Livingstone .Some independent Labour leftists split from the paper over the tactic of raising
tax es to pay for improvedlocal government services.In the mid-1980s, the paper was sued by the Workers Revolutionary Party over claims they repeated that the WRP was partially funded by money from the
Libya n andIraq i governments, but the WRP abandoned the action.The newspaper gradually became more identified with the new WSL. This process was completed when the ICL/WSL fusion broke, as "Socialist Organiser" re-evaluated many of its international policies and developed its own distinctive "
third camp " position.As "Socialist Organiser" lost ground as a broad vehicle of left unity in the Labour Party,
Sean Matgamna 's supporters from the former ICL began to work entirely through the Socialist Organiser Alliance.Socialist Organiser was denied the right to register with the Labour Party in
1990 , but this had little practical effect and it continued to be published until the mid-1990s, when theAWL andInternational Socialist Group supported the launch of new newspaper, "Action for Solidarity ", which was published by theWelfare State Network .
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