Open Turn (politics)

The Open Turn debate took place in 1991 within the Militant tendency of the British Labour Party. The debate was the result of disagreement over whether, in the changed political situation of the time, the organisation would best be able to win support for their form of Trotskyism (for them Marxism) amongst the working class as entryists within the Labour Party, or as an independent political party. ^[1]

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v t e Militant – Socialist Party
General	Revolutionary Communist Party (1944) The Club Revolutionary Socialist League Trotskyism Entryism Labour Party Open Turn Committee for a Workers' International Militant in Liverpool The Socialist
General Secretary	Jimmy Deane (1957–1965) Peter Taaffe (1965–2020) Hannah Sell (2020–present)
Prominent current or former members	Terry Fields Ted Grant Peter Hadden Derek Hatton Ellis Hillman John Macreadie Lesley Mahmood Tony Mulhearn Dave Nellist Pat Wall Matt Wrack
Affiliated	Campaign for a New Workers' Party All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation Labour Party Young Socialists Show Racism the Red Card Socialist Party Scotland (earlier Scottish Militant Labour) Socialist Students Youth against Racism in Europe
Splinter groups	Revolutionary Communist Party (2024) Formerly Socialist Appeal Socialist Solidarity Network (later Socialist Resistance) Socialist Alternative
Related	Far-left politics in the United Kingdom Socialist Alliance (England) Socialist Green Unity Coalition Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

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