Welcome to this blog

Welcome to this new blog devoted to recording the enormous contribution made by Tony Cliff, founder of the Socialist Workers Party (UK) and its forerunners, to the revolutionary socialist tradition. The purpose is to combine text and video in collating a selection of Cliff's works, with some commentary from me on their relevance to the challenges faced by revolutionaries today.

It is not an academic exercise, but a tool for activists. I won't be attempting anything like an exhaustive archive, but rather identifying key articles, extracts and speeches that I think are useful and interesting.

I'm intending to mostly feature Cliff in his own words, but there is scope for including others' writings about him and his ideas. I will welcome any suggestions for posting pieces either by or about Cliff - please get in touch.

This is what might be considered a summer project - I'll be posting a number of times a week up to the 31 August 2009, when I will post my final contribution to the blog (it will then remain online as an archive). Cliff was a polymath with incredibly wide-ranging political interests and expertise , so this blog will attempt to cover a range of categories - though, of course, I cannot hope to do justice to the full scope of Cliff's political and intellectual contribution.