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Tony Cliff was a Palestinian Jew who became a revolutionary socialist in his teens. He came to Britain in the 1940s and built the anti-Stalinist left, pulling together the group that was to become the Socialist Workers Party. He died in 2000 aged 82 and thousands attended his funeral procession through Golders Green. This lovingly crafted book is the culmination of years of work, drawing on interviews with over 100 people who knew Cliff and painstaking research in archives around the country. It is a majestic example of political biography at its best.

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Publié par	Bookmarks
Date de parution	07 janvier 2013
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781090902610
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	1 Mo

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Tony Cliff
A Marxist for His Time

Ian Birchall
To Chanie Rosenberg, Cliff’s “companion in struggle” for over half a century
Tony Cliff: A Marxist for His Time
Ian Birchall
Published by Bookmarks Publications in 2011
Copyright © Bookmarks Publications
ISBN 9781905192809 (pbk)
9781905192793 (hbk)
Cover design by Ruth Pallesen-Mustikay
Typeset by rpmdesign
Printed by Halstan Printing Group
Acknowledgements
The following gave me interviews, in person or by telephone. Many of them also gave me additional information or made useful suggestions. People with names marked (†) have sadly died since I conducted the interviews.

Peter Alexander
Chris Davison
Tariq Ali
Shaun Doherty
Dave Ayre
Clare Fermont
Chris Bambery
Joel Geier
Colin Barker
Lindsey German
Ewa Barker
Ian Gibson
Hanna Ben Dov
Anna Gluckstein
Weyman Bennett
Danny Gluckstein
Willie Black
Donny Gluckstein
Helen Blair
Pete Green
Alan Borrell
Naomi Gunn
Eileen Boyle
Steve Hammill
Geoff Brown
Chris Harman (†)
Sue Caldwell
Nigel Harris
Alex Callinicos
Tirril Harris
Ray Challinor (†)
Dave Hayes
John Charlton
Simon Hester
Choi Il-Bung
Paul Holborow
Pete Clark
Nick Howard
Bob Clay
Roger Huddle
Ken Coates (†)
Richard Hyman
Nigel Coward
Richard Kirkwood
Roger Cox
Roger Kline
Sarah Cox
Mark Krantz
Edward Crawford
Penny Krantz
Jim Cronin
Richard Kuper
Ralph Darlington
Willie Lee (†)
George Leslie
Peter Robinson
Sheila Leslie
John Rose
Fred Lindop
Chanie Rosenberg
John Lindsay
Roger Rosewell
Mickey Loeb
John Rees
Ian Macdonald QC
Sabby Sagall
Lord Macdonald of Tradeston
Rudi Segall (†)
Paul Mackney
Red Saunders
Zena Maddison
Ron Senchak
Ron Margulies
Dov Shas (†)
Sean Matgamna
Ahmed Shawki
Eamonn McCann
Dave Sherry
Sheila McGregor
Tuvia Shlonsky
Ian Mitchell
Martin Smith
John Molyneux
Pat Stack
Jakob Moneta
Andy Strouthous
Sammy Morris
Danny Tait (†)
Volkhard Mosler
Jean Tait
Stan Newens
Bill Thomson
Jim Nichol
Martin Tomkinson
Fergus Nicol
Sean Vernell
Mel Norris
Julie Waterson
George Paizis
Alan Watts
John Palmer
Granville Williams
Dave Peers
Andy Wilson
John Phillips
John Witzenfeld
Mary Phillips
Alan Woodward
Eddie Prevost
James D Young
Jack Robertson

The following sent me written testimonies, provided documents or information, made helpful suggestions or assisted with translations and technical matters. Apologies to those who made comments when I wasn’t taking notes, or who commented pseudonymously on websites. Apologies also to those whose material I have not used; I have acquired a wealth of information while working on this book, far more than could be contained in a single volume. Many testimonies not directly quoted have been taken into account.
Anne Alexander
Mike Jones
Kieran Allen
Ishay Landa
Logie Barrow
William Lefevre
Nimrod Ben-Cnaan
Petra Lubitz
Danny Birchall
Wolfgang Lubitz
David Black
Dave Lyddon
Christophe Bourseiller
Moshé Machover
Musa Budeiri
Alasdair MacIntyre
Sebastian Budgen
Jimmy McCallum
Paul Burnham
John McIlroy
Pat Carmody
Owen Miller
Glyn Carver
James Monaghan
Joseph Choonara
John Mullen
Neil Cobbett
Annie Nehmad
Candace Cohn
Sandy Nicoll
Werner Cohn
Joanne Norbury
Geoff Collier
Einde O’Callaghan
Richard Condon
Tom O’Lincoln
Dave Crouch
Akiva Orr
Aleksa Djilas
David Paenson
Wilfried Dubois
Mike Pearn
Andy Durgan
John Plant
Samuel Farber
Dragan Plavsic
Paul Flewers
Dave Renton
Michael Foot (†)
John Rudge
Chris Ford
Tim Sanders
Daniel Gaido
Susi Scheller
Panos Garganas
Richard Seymour
Pete Gillard
Mark Steel
Pete Glatter (†)
Marion Tarbuck
Paul Hampton
Robert Taylor
Dave Harker
Reiner Tosstorff
Mike Haynes
Noel Tracy
Ron Heisler
Air Vice-Marshal Andrew
Christian Hogsbjerg
Vallance
Charlie Hore
Michel Warshawski
Richard Horton
Leon Yudkin
Sandy Irvine

Libraries
I have visited or consulted the following libraries, and thank the staff for their assistance:
Bibliothèque de documentation internationale contemporaine (Paris)
Bibliothèque Nationale (Paris)
British Library (including Colindale Newspaper Library and Sound Archive)
Centre d’Études et de Recherches sur les Mouvements Trotskyste et Révolutionnaires Internationaux (Paris)
International Institute of Social History (Amsterdam)
The Jewish National and University Library (Jerusalem)
Labour Party Archives, People’s History Museum (Manchester)
London Library
Marx Memorial Library
Modern Records Centre, University of Warwick
National Archives
Special Collections, Senate House Library (London)
TUC Collections, London Metropolitan University
Wayne State University Archives of Labour and Urban Affairs (Detroit)
The Women’s Library (London)
I am grateful to Stan Newens for allowing me to consult documents in his private archives.
Chris Bambery, Colin Barker, Alex Callinicos, John Charlton, Joseph Choonara, Donny Gluckstein, Gareth Jenkins and Chanie Rosenberg read the manuscript and made valuable comments. Thanks too to Sally Campbell and everyone at Bookmarks for their work on the production of the book.
Finally thanks to Danny Birchall for ensuring that my technical ineptitude did not have even more disastrous results.
Abbreviations
AEU
Amalgamated Engineering Union
ANL
Anti Nazi League
AO
Avanguardia Operaia
ASTMS
Association of Scientific, Technical and Managerial Staffs
AUEW
Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers
BLSA
British Library Sound Archive
BNP
British National Party
BT
British Telecom
CAST
Cartoon Archetypical Slogan Theatre
CC
Central Committee
CCP
Chinese Communist Party
CID
Criminal Investigation Department
CLP
Constituency Labour Party
CND
Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament
CP
Communist Party
CPGB
Communist Party of Great Britain
CPSA
Civil and Public Services Association
DHSS
Department of Health and Social Security
DSS
Department of Social Security
EC
Executive Committee
EEC
European Economic Community
ENV
North-West London gearbox factory (from the French “En V”, a reference to V-shaped cylinder layout)
GLC
Greater London Council
ICI
Imperial Chemical Industries
IEC
International Executive Committee
ILP
Independent Labour Party
IMG
International Marxist Group
IRA
Irish Republican Army
IS
International Socialists
ISL
Independent Socialist League (US)
ISO
International Socialist Organization (US)
ISUS
International Socialists of the United States
IWC
Institute for Workers’ Control
JSSC
Joint Stop Stewards Committee
KAPD
Communist Workers Party of Germany
KGB
Committee for State Security (USSR)
KPO
Communist Party Opposition (Germany)
LCDTU
Liaison Committee for the Defence of Trade Unions
LSE
London School of Economics
MFA
Armed Forces Movement
MI5
Directorate of Military Intelligence, Section 5 (UK)
MK
Company making electrical accessories (from Multy Kontact spring grip socket)
MRC
Modern Records Centre (University of Warwick)
NA
National Archives
NALGO
National and Local Government Officers Association
NALSO
National Association of Labour Student Organisations
NATFHE
National Association of Teachers in Further and Higher Education
NC
National Committee
NCLC
National Council of Labour Colleges
NEC
National Executive Committee
NF
National Front
NGA
National Graphical Association
NLF
National Liberation Front (Vietnam)
NLR
New Left Review
NUM
National Union of Mineworkers
NUPE
National Union of Public Employees
NUT
National Union of Teachers
PAWS
Palestinian Arab Workers’ Society
PCP
Palestine Communist Party
PD
People’s Democracy (Ireland)
POEU
Post Office Engineering Union
POUM
Workers Party of Marxist Unity (Spain)
PRP
Proletarian Revolutionary Party – Revolutionary Brigades (Portugal)
R&F
Rank and File
RAR
Rock Against Racism
RCL
Revolutionary Communist League (Palestine)
RCP
Revolutionary Communist Party (Britain)
RILU
Red International of Labour Unions
RSDLP/RSDRP
Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party
RSL
Revolutionary Socialist League
RUC
Royal Ulster Constabulary
SAG
Socialist Workers Group (Germany)
SAP
Socialist Workers Party (Germany)
SDP
Social Democratic Party (Germany)
SDS
Socialist German Student Union
SLL
Socialist Labour League
SLP
Socialist Labour Party
SOAS
School of Oriental and African Studies (London)
SPD
Social Democratic Party of Germany
SPG
Special Patrol Group
SPGB
Socialist Party of Great Britain
SRG
Socialist Review Group
SSDC
Shop Stewards Defence Committee
SWP
Socialist Workers Party (US from 1937, Britain from 1977)
TGWU
Transport and General Workers Union
TU
Trade Union
TUC
Trades Union Congress
ULR
Universities and Left Review
VSC
Vietnam Solidarity Campaign
WRP
Workers Revolutionary Party
YS
Young Socialists
Key dates
1917
March: Tsarism overthrown in Russia.
1917
20 May: Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein) born.
1917
2 November: Balfour Declaration.
1917
7 November: Bolshevik Revolution in Russia.
1922
11 September: British Mandate proclaimed in Palestine.
1928
January: Trotsky exiled.
1933
30 January: Hitler takes power in Germany.
1933
Cliff joins Marxist Circles.
1934
February: Workers’ rising against fascism in Vienna.
1936-39
Cliff student at Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
1936-39
Arab nationalist uprising in Palestine.
1938
Cliff’s first contact with New International and US Trotskyists.
1938
3 September: Foundation of Fourth International.
1938
October-November: Cliff’s first articles in New International under name “L Rock”.
1939
3 September: Outbreak of Second World War.
1939
September: Cliff arrested and jailed.
1940-42
[?] Founding of RCL.
1945
February: Cliff marries Chanie Rosenberg.
1945
27 July: Formation of Attlee Labour government in UK.
1945
December: First part of “The Middle East at the Crossroads” (first use of name Cliff).
1946
25 September: Cliff arrives in Bri