Economic and Philosophic Science Review

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

You have new messages (last change).

The Economic and Philosophic Science Review is a British socialist newspaper founded by Royston Bull, formerly a leading member of the Workers Revolutionary Party and industrial correspondent for The Scotsman newspaper.

Bull split from the WRP in 1979 and with a small number of his supporters he founded the Workers Party. This group, upon formally repudiating Trotskyism, renamed themselves the International Leninist Workers Party. The Economic and Philosophical Science Review was their weekly newspaper. The ILWP was avowedly Marxist-Leninist and was supportive of the USSR but critical of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's revisionism which they claimed was the result of Stalin's political errors.

They were also very strongy supportive of the Irish Republican Army and many Third World national liberation movements.

With the foundation of the Socialist Labour Party by the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill in 1996, the ILWP dissolved itself into the SLP where they operated as a faction around their paper, the EPSR. Royston Bull was elected Vice-President of the SLP in 1998, but was then almost immediately expelled (or 'voided') from party membership. His views on homosexuality played a part in his rejection by the SLP. He had used the EPSR as a platform for his position that homosexuality is a perversion, an "emotional and sexual malfunction". Arthur Scargill, who had sponsored Bull, made remarks distancing himself from the homophobic position, but supported Bull's candidacy in order to strengthen his position within the SLP. The election caused a significant rift within the SLP, with one member, Brian Heron, calling Bull's election "a disaster". Whilst some of Bull's supporters stayed within the SLP, most left to rejoin Bull and organised themeselves as "EPSR supporters."

Although Royston Bull died aged 69 on the 2nd of January 2005, the EPSR continues to be published, albeit infrequently, by its small number of supporters.

[edit] External links

 This article related to the politics of the United Kingdom, or its predecessor or constituent states, is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
 This newspaper-related article is a stub. You can help by expanding it.
Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org../../../e/c/o/Economic_and_Philosophic_Science_Review_4ed9.html"