Socialist Society
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The Socialist Society was founded in 1981 by a group of British
British Labour Party with socialists outside it. The Society grew out of the New Left Review (NLR) and many of its active members were involved in the NLR: Robin Blackburn, Tariq Ali, Michèle Barrett, Michael Rustin and Hilary Wainwright.[1] Other active and prominent members of the Society included Richard Kuper, John Palmer, John Williams and Barney Dickson
. The Society published a magazine (Interlink, later relaunched under the name of Catalyst) and a series of pamphlets.
Many of its members were said to be active in the 1980s magazine Socialist Alternatives, edited for a period by Keir Starmer.[2]
One of the Society's key goals was overcoming the division on the British Left between socialists inside and outside the Labour Party. To this end, the Society was jointly responsible, with the
Charter88. Another organisational achievement of note was the founding of the Red-Green Network
.
The Society's last AGM was in 1993.
References
- ^ "Archived copy" (PDF). www.lipman-miliband.org.uk. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2007. Retrieved 22 May 2022.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Comrade Paul Mason Backs Keir Starmer; on Starmer's 'Socialist Alternatives' background". 8 January 2020.