Socialist Movement

The Socialist Movement was an independent left-wing grouping in the United Kingdom that grew out the Socialist Conferences.

The Socialist Conference was a series of large meetings held in Chesterfield, Sheffield and Manchester in the years after the defeat of Britain’s miners’ strike of 1984–1985. [http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html] This broadly-supported gathering emanated from the Socialist Society (an organisation of left intellectuals associated with Raymond Williams, Richard Kuper and Ralph Miliband), the Campaign Group (a hard left grouping around the British Labour Party MP Tony Benn), the Conference of Socialist Economists and also the network generated by the socialist feminist book "Beyond the Fragments" [http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/x-anotheresf.htm#_ednref7] . The largest conferences were in 1987 and 1988.

The Socialist Movement made a unique contribution by creating a political space open to different left traditions, green as well as red, for exploratory, grassroots debate and research on socialist policy-making.

External links

* [http://www.redpepper.org.uk/ Red Pepper]
* [http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html History of the Socialist Movement and Red Pepper]