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The Socialist Party is a Marxist group active in England and Wales. It has five councillors in...

The Socialist Party is a Marxist group active in England and Wales. It has five councillors in local government and two dozen members on trade union executives, was responsible for initiating the Campaign for a New Workers' Party (CNWP), publishes The Socialist, a weekly newspaper, and Socialism Today, a monthly magazine and is part of the Committee for a Workers' International. The Socialist Party was formerly the Militant tendency, founded in 1964 as the "Marxist voice of Labour and Youth" and operating in the Labour Party. In the 1980s the Militant tendency was dominant in the Labour group of Liverpool City Council and came into conflict with central government, then Conservative led, over finances it claimed had been "stolen". At the end of the 1980s, just before abandoning its entryist strategy, Militant led the All-Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation, which, through a successful "non-payment" campaign, resulted in the defeat of Conservative Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher's "flag ship" Community Charge legislation. Both struggles, in Liverpool and against the Poll Tax, involved defiance of what it regarded as iniquitous laws, and the Militant supporting Labour MP Terry Fields