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Socialist Appeal is the publication of a Trotskyist tendency which was founded by supporters of Ted Grant and Alan Woods after they were expelled from the Militant group in the early 1990s. The organisation is popularly known as the Socialist Appeal group, and publishes a monthly newspaper of the same name. It is the British section of the International Marxist Tendency.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.socialist.net/socialist-appeal-conference-2012-full-report.htm )〕 ''Socialist Appeal'' describes its politics as descending from Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marxist.com/history-marxist-tendency.htm )〕 In Scotland, the International Marxist Tendency has supported the Scottish Socialist Party since 2014.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Scotland needs a revolution! )〕 ==History== (詳細はMilitant tendency had been a significant force within the British Labour Party. At the height of its influence in the mid-to-late 1980s, Militant had three Labour MPs, control of Liverpool City Council, and later initiated the campaign that brought down the Poll Tax. Ted Grant had been one of the founders and the theoretical leader of the Militant group but was expelled with other supporters after the 1991 debate on the Open Turn. A special conference decision to endorse the Open Turn by 93% to 7% entailed Militant supporters abandoning the entryist strategy of working within the Labour Party and leaving to form an independent organisation. The new party was initially known as Militant Labour, changing its name in 1997 to the Socialist Party in England and Wales, while in Scotland Scottish Militant Labour instigated the formation of the Scottish Socialist Party. The split was caused by the Militant tendency's majority adoption of the 'Open Turn', Grant's continued support for the tactic of entryism within the Labour Party and what Grant and Woods claimed was the bureaucratic centralist degeneration of Militant's internal regime.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.marxist.com/against-bureaucratic-centralism.htm )〕 After the debate and conference decision, the Militant tendency claimed that Grant and Woods had begun a separate organisation and had split from Militant, whilst Grant and Woods claimed to have been expelled. The Socialist Party drew the conclusions that owing to the adoption of right wing economic polices by the Labour Party leadership under Neil Kinnock, it was effectively a bourgeois political party. Conversely, supporters of ''Socialist Appeal'' argued that the Labour Party was still based on trade unions, and the Labour Party retains support amongst the working class. As Labour under Tony Blair embraced the Third Way and moved away from its traditional socialist roots, most Trotskyist tendencies in Britain that employed the tactic of entrism have left Labour and either run candidates under their own banner, such as the Socialist Party, or joined electoral coalitions such as the Scottish Socialist Party or the Socialist Alliance. The Socialist Party, along with other left-wing organisations, intiatiated the Campaign for a New Workers' Party in 2006, arguing that trade unions should break with Labour and construct their own political formation.〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.cnwp.org.uk/start.htm )〕 However, supporters of ''Socialist Appeal'' have rejected this turn and they are the main Trotskyist group in Britain which maintains the entrist tactic in the twenty-first century (although the Alliance for Workers Liberty left and then rejoined). ''Socialist Appeal'' began publishing their own journal in 1992. In 2000, the group was estimated to have around 250 supporters.〔Peter Barberis et al, ''Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations'', p.519〕 In 2013, the tendency in Britain made a turn towards the student movement by launching the Marxist Student Federation. After the rapid growth of the Scottish Socialist Party in the aftermath of the failed Scottish independence referendum, the International Marxist Tendency called for "the building of those forces on the left in Scotland, on a revolutionary and internationalist basis, beginning with the Scottish Socialist Party".〔 In June 2015, Green Party of England and Wales deputy leader Shahrar Ali was a guest speaker at Socialist Appeal's "REVOLUTION 2015" summer school.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Energy and enthusiasm on display at REVOLUTION 2015 )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Socialist Appeal (UK, 1992)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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