Tony Cliff

Tony Cliff
Tony Cliff in 1986
Born
Yigael Glückstein

(1917-05-20)20 May 1917
Zikhron Ya'akov, Mutasarrifate of Jerusalem, Ottoman Empire
Died9 April 2000(2000-04-09) (aged 82)
London, England

Tony Cliff (born Yigael Glückstein, Hebrew: יגאל גליקשטיין; 20 May 1917 – 9 April 2000) was a Trotskyist activist. Born to a Jewish family in Ottoman Palestine, he moved to Britain in 1947 and by the end of the 1950s had assumed the pen name of Tony Cliff. A founding member of the Socialist Review Group, which became the International Socialists and then the Socialist Workers Party, in 1977. Cliff was effectively the leader of all three.

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