
This edition of Socialism Today has been produced as a commemorative issue marking the passing, on April 23, of Peter Taaffe, the inaugural editor of the Militant in 1964, a leading member of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) from its founding congress in 1974, and the general secretary of the Socialist Party until 2020.
Peter was a prolific contributor to Socialism Today and its predecessor magazine, the Militant International Review (MIR), writing a leading article in the first issue of the MIR published in autumn 1969 on the state of the trade unions in Britain after the defeat of the Harold Wilson Labour government’s anti-union ‘In Place of Strife’ white paper. In total the MIR and Socialism Today, launched as a monthly in 1995, together published 173 original articles by Peter, ranging across every facet of the struggle for socialism in Britain and internationally.
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