Talk:Socialist Appeal

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1) I am about to make some grammatical edits. The current text has such poor grammar it looks like a possible machine translation from another language. Someone might want to research copyright questions.

2) Revolutionary Communist Party (UK) is distinct from the contemporary party of that name and the article should make that clearer. -- Jmabel 10:20, 6 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I have restored the reference clarifying that "Revolutionary Communist Party" is not the contemporary RCP founded by Bob Avakian. They are small, but reasonably well known in left circles, and a reference in a contemporary document to the "Revolutionary Communist Party" without this qualification would be reasonably be presumed to refer to them (it's what I thought when I read an earlier version of this article and wondered why they were being described as Trotskyist. That's what got me to start editing this article in the first place.) Our article on them is at Revolutionary Communist Party, USA, but they are not specifically a US party: I met people from the UK chapter in the Nineties, at a broad-left conference here in Seattle. They put out a magazine called Living Marxism which, I gather, folded after a lawsuit. -- Jmabel 22:35, 7 Feb 2004 (UTC)

User:Warofdreams now informs me that the Living Marxism folks and Bob Avakian's organization were actually separate from one another, two unrelated RCPs besides the precursor to the Militant Tendency, not one. -- Jmabel 19:56, 8 Feb 2004 (UTC)
  • (cur) (last) . . 13:22, 20 Feb 2004 . . Jmabel (revert to last version by Warofdreams: an anon removed content without any explanation. I'm restoring; discussion welcome. Deletions need justifications.)
  • (cur) (last) . . 07:40, 20 Feb 2004 . . 81.138.53.73
  • (cur) (last) . . M 05:27, 8 Feb 2004 . . Warofdreams

If this had been an edit by a named contributor, I'd just have asked for explanation instead of reverting. (I'll try the IP's talk page, for what it may be worth) A few phrases were deleted. The deletion might have been a removal of bad information (I'm not expert on the Socialist Appeal group), but it certainly needs an explanation and some indication of what sources say the previous apparently reasonable information is wrong. -- Jmabel 21:27, 20 Feb 2004 (UTC)

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