Tony Cliff

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

Cliff was at the beginning of the Korean War in 1950 from the Trotskyist Fourth International excluded, 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 the author of numerous books, including a Lenin and Trotsky 's biography, his autobiography A world to win, as well as its classic state capitalism in Russia, in which he analyzed the class character of the Soviet Union.