Founded 1978 Ideology Trotskyism European affiliation None | Headquarters London Political position Far-left | |
International affiliation International Communist League | ||
The Spartacist League of Britain (Spartacist League/Britain) is a Trotskyist political party in Britain. It is the British section of the International Communist League (Fourth Internationalist).
History
The origins of the group derive from a 1964 group of activists within Tony Cliff's International Socialists (later the Socialist Workers Party) who were expelled for refusing to support the Cuban Revolution. These activists later took on the organisation form of the London Spartacist Group in 1975. In 1977 the group was joined by New Zealanders Bill Logan and Adaire Hannah, who had led the Spartacist League of Australia and New Zealand from 1972 to 1977, and who were "transferred to London at the behest of the Spartacist international leadership" with a view to strengthening the tendency's organisation there. "The Spartacist League/Britain was founded in 1978 as a fusion between the London Spartacist Group and the Trotskyist Faction (TF), which split from Alan Thornett’s Workers Socialist League ...". The Trotskyist Faction, with about two dozen members, left the Workers Socialist League on 19 February 1978 and merged with the London Spartacist Group at a conference held seven weeks later over the weekend of 4–5 April. The new party claimed to have about fifty members in London and the Midlands.
The group published a monthly periodical called Spartacist Britain, which changed its title to Workers Hammer in 1984 and is now a quarterly.