Tony Cliff

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Tony Cliff (born May 20, 1917 in Zichron Ja'akow , Palestine ; † April 9, 2000 ), actually Ygael Gluckstein , was a British socialist , anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist of Jewish origin.

In the Palestinian Yishuv, Cliff belonged together with Jakob Moneta, Jakob Taut, Rudolf Segall and Jabra Nicola to the Trotskyist "League of Revolutionary Communists", which in its manifesto "Against the Current" (1948) advocated a binational Jewish-Arab community within a " United Socialist Arab East "pronounced.

Cliff was expelled from the Trotskyist Fourth International at the start of the Korean War in 1950 when he refused to take a stand for China and North Korea and against the United States.

He was co-founder of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party in Britain and the international network of Trotskyist groups International Socialist Tendency and author of numerous books, including a Lenin - and Trotsky - biography , his autobiography A world to win and his writing state capitalism in Russia , in which he defined the class character of the Soviet Union as " state capitalism ".

He was married to Chanie Rosenberg (* 1922).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen - Another Israeli story . 2. Looked through. Edition. Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, Göttingen 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-37056-8 , pp. 103 .

literature

  • Lutz Fiedler: Matzpen - Another Israeli story , 2nd through. Edition (series of publications by the Simon Dubnow Institute, vol. 25), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht 2017, ISBN 978-3-525-37056-8 , pp. 90-109.

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personal data
SURNAME Cliff, Tony
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Gluckstein, Ygael (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British socialist, publicist
DATE OF BIRTH May 20, 1917
PLACE OF BIRTH Zichron Ya'akov
DATE OF DEATH April 9, 2000