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Alan Thornett (born 15 June 1937) is a British Trotskyist.
Alan Thornett began his career as a car worker in
International-Communist League in 1981. Political differences emerged in the new organisation with parts of the ex-WSL splitting off before those remaining were expelled in 1984.[2]
Thornett and his comrades regrouped as the
Fourth International
.
Thornett successfully argued for the ISG to exit the Labour Party and join the Socialist Alliance. Later, he supported the Alliance's dissolution in favour of the
Respect Coalition. In the 2007 split in Respect, the ISG sided with the Respect Renewal faction around George Galloway against the SWP
. Thornett sat on Respect's National Council until Socialist Resistance left Respect in 2010.
Thornett is the author of three volumes of autobiography: From Militancy to Marxism, Inside Cowley and Militant Years,[3] and of Facing the Apocalypse - Arguments for Ecosocialism[4]
References
- ^ Bob Pitt: The Rise and Fall of Gerry Healy, Chapter 7.
- ^ What really happened in the 'Thornett' split following the fusion of the I-CL and the WSL in 1981? http://archive.workersliberty.org/publications/readings/trots/thornett.html
- ^ Review of Militant Years
- ^ "Resistance Books". Retrieved 3 March 2019.
External links
- "Debate on The European Radical Left A reply to Alex Callinicos". Article by Thornett contrasting the ISG's approach to Respect to the SWP's.
- "Building Respect, how we get beyond the current stage". Article by Thornett critically assessing how to move Respect Coalitionforwards.
- Catalogue of Thornett's papers, held at the Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
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