Revolutionary Socialist Party (UK)
Revolutionary Socialist Party | |
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Leader | William Campbell Tait |
Founded | 1912 |
Dissolved | 1938 |
Split from | Socialist Labour Party |
Merged into | Revolutionary Socialist League (1938) |
Headquarters | Edinburgh |
Newspaper | The Proletariat |
Ideology | De Leonism Centrist Marxism Trotskyism (from 1937) |
Political position | Left-wing to far-left |
International affiliation | International Revolutionary Marxist Centre (1936-1938) Fourth International (1938-1941) |
The Revolutionary Socialist Party, initially known as the International Socialist Labour Party, was a
The party was mainly based in Edinburgh, where it had its office and most of the party members lived. Members were also present in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Yorkshire.[3][2] The party published The Proletariat and later The British Revolutionary Socialist.[3][4][2] Principal members included William Campbell Tait (the National Organiser from 1927)[5][2] and Frank Maitland.[3]
RSP took part in conferences of the
The RSP was invited to and took part in the 'National Conference of Bolshevik-Leninists', held on 30 July – 31 July 1938. Through this conference, the RSP merged into the Revolutionary Socialist League.[3] In September 1938 Tait travelled to Paris to participate in the founding conference of the Fourth International.[1] Before long, however, the group parted with the International. In March 1939 it began to publish a paper called the Workers Weekly.[1] Most of its members joined the Independent Labour Party during World War II.[1][2]
References
- ^ a b c d e Mark Shipway Obituary: William Campbell Tait (1910/11–1994), Revolutionary History vol5/no4
- ^ a b c d e List of contents of Tait & Watson Archive, University of Stirling
- ^ a b c d e Martin Upham VIII: UNITY (1936-1938) Archived 9 May 2008 at the Wayback Machine in The History of British Trotskyism to 1949 September 1980, hosted at Revolutionary History
- Modern Records Centre, Warwick University: "Official organ of the Revolutionary Socialist Party (British Section of the International Socialist Labour Party). Incorporating The Proletariat."
- ^ The British Revolutionary Socialist, no.11, Aug 1934