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Not to be confused withMovement for a Socialist Future.

TheMovement for Socialismis an occasional grouping of socialists in theUnited Kingdom.It originated as one half of the major split in theWorkers Revolutionary Partyof 1985. Initially, both halves continued under the WRP name and both published a newspaper namedThe News Line,originally namedWorkers Press.

Workers' Revolutionary Party (Workers Press)[edit]

The group was initially led byCliff SlaughterandMichael Banda,[1]but Banda left in 1986 to form the Communist Forum.[2]A further split occurred when the group's Bolshevik Faction left to form theInternational Socialist Leaguein 1988. Following the transformation of the remaining group into Movement for Socialism, another split occurred with the departure of a group of supporters of theWorkers International to Rebuild the Fourth International.

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  1. ^"The death of Mike Banda",Permanent Revolution.Retrieved 26 October 2015
  2. ^Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations parties, groupsBy Peter Barberis, John McHugh, Mike Tyldesley,p.170
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