Socialist Movement
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The Socialist Movement was an independent left-wing grouping in the United Kingdom
that grew out the Socialist Conferences.
The Socialist Conferences were held in Chesterfield
, Sheffield
and Manchester
in the years following the defeat of Britain’s miners’ strike of 1984–1985
.http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html This broadly-supported gathering emanated from the Socialist Society
(an organisation of left intellectuals including Raymond Williams
, Richard Kuper and Ralph Miliband
), the Campaign Group
(a hard left
grouping within the Labour Party
), the Conference of Socialist Economists
and also the network generated by the socialist feminist book Beyond the Fragments.http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/x-anotheresf.htm#_ednref7 The largest conferences were in 1987 and 1988.
The Socialist Movement was open to different left traditions, green
as well as red, for exploratory, grassroots debate and research on socialist policy-making.
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
that grew out the Socialist Conferences.
The Socialist Conferences were held in Chesterfield
Chesterfield
Chesterfield is a market town and a borough of Derbyshire, England. It lies north of Derby, on a confluence of the rivers Rother and Hipper. Its population is 70,260 , making it Derbyshire's largest town...
, Sheffield
Sheffield
Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...
and Manchester
Manchester
Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough in Greater Manchester, England. According to the Office for National Statistics, the 2010 mid-year population estimate for Manchester was 498,800. Manchester lies within one of the UK's largest metropolitan areas, the metropolitan county of Greater...
in the years following the defeat of Britain’s miners’ strike of 1984–1985
UK miners' strike (1984–1985)
The UK miners' strike was a major industrial action affecting the British coal industry. It was a defining moment in British industrial relations, and its defeat significantly weakened the British trades union movement...
.http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html This broadly-supported gathering emanated from the Socialist Society
Socialist Society
The Socialist Society was founded in 1981 by a group of British socialists, including Raymond Williams and Ralph Miliband, who founded it as an organisation devoted to socialist education and research, linking the left of the British Labour Party with socialists outside it...
(an organisation of left intellectuals including Raymond Williams
Raymond Williams
Raymond Henry Williams was a Welsh academic, novelist and critic. He was an influential figure within the New Left and in wider culture. His writings on politics, culture, the mass media and literature are a significant contribution to the Marxist critique of culture and the arts...
, Richard Kuper and Ralph Miliband
Ralph Miliband
Ralph Miliband , born Adolphe Miliband, was a Belgian-born British sociologist known as a prominent Marxist thinker...
), the Campaign Group
Socialist Campaign Group
The Socialist Campaign Group is a left-wing democratic socialist grouping of Labour Party Members of Parliament in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. It was formed in December 1982 as an alternative Parliamentary left-wing group to the Tribune Group...
(a hard left
Hard left
Hard left is a name often given to an internal tendency within the British Labour Party. Similar terminology is used also in the context of the Australian Labor Party....
grouping within the Labour Party
Labour Party (UK)
The Labour Party is a centre-left democratic socialist party in the United Kingdom. It surpassed the Liberal Party in general elections during the early 1920s, forming minority governments under Ramsay MacDonald in 1924 and 1929-1931. The party was in a wartime coalition from 1940 to 1945, after...
), the Conference of Socialist Economists
Conference of Socialist Economists
The Conference of Socialist Economists describes itself as an international, democratic membership organisation committed to developing a materialist critique of capitalism, unconstrained by conventional academic divisions between subjects....
and also the network generated by the socialist feminist book Beyond the Fragments.http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/x-anotheresf.htm#_ednref7 The largest conferences were in 1987 and 1988.
The Socialist Movement was open to different left traditions, green
Green politics
Green politics is a political ideology that aims for the creation of an ecologically sustainable society rooted in environmentalism, social liberalism, and grassroots democracy...
as well as red, for exploratory, grassroots debate and research on socialist policy-making.