Movement for Socialism (Great Britain)
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found: The Movement for Socialism [newsletter], Jan. 1998:p.2 (Movement for Socialism; inaugurated on 23 November 1996; the first step in the founding of a transitional organisation of those who believe it is necessary for the working class and its allies to build a new party for socialism) p.18 (contact address in London)
found: Wikipedia, viewed 9 July 2015(Movement for Socialism (Britain); ideology: Trotskyism; socialist group in the United Kingdom led by Cliff Slaughter; originated as one half of the major split in the Workers Revolutionary Party of 1985 known as the WRP (Slaughter) or WRP (Workers Press); in 1996 the decision was taken to abandon the name WRP, and the group renamed itself the Movement for Socialism; this later split again, with Slaughter's group continuing to use the name MFS and the other group going by the name WIRFI, the Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International (founded in 1990); MFS is not to be confused with other similarly named groups Movements for Socialism, or Movement for a Socialist Future or Workers' Revolutionary Party (UK))
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2015-01-08: new
2015-07-11: revised
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