Bill Hunter (politician)
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Bill Hunter (born 1920) is a veteran Trotskyist leader in Britain and a member of the International Socialist League.
Hunter began his revolutionary career as a member of the Independent Labour Party during World War II, when he was a part of the circle around the Free Expression discussion magazine in that group. With the decline of the ILP, Hunter became a Trotskyist and joined the Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) in which he played a leading role in its final period.
With the collapse of the RCP, Hunter joined the Gerry Healy-led group known as The Club, although he had not belonged to Healy's faction within the RCP. He remained a member - usually a leading member - of Healy's groups.
When Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party split in 1985, Hunter joined the Cliff Slaughter's anti-Healy faction, around what was soon renamed the Workers Press newspaper. Within this group, he become attracted to the faction of international Trotskyism led by Nahuel Moreno. In 1988, he and Martin Ralph led a small split to form the International Socialist League as a section of Moreno's organisation.
Bill Hunter has written several books, including Forgotten Hero: The Life and Times of Edward Rushton about the blind Liverpool-born anti-slavery campaigner, and the two part autobiography Lifelong Apprenticeship: The Life and Times of a Revolutionary.
