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Alan Woods | |
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Born | |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | University of Sussex Sofia University Moscow State University |
Occupation(s) | Political theorist, activist, writer |
Movement | Revolutionary Communist International |
Website | marxist.com |
Alan Woods (born 23 October 1944)[1] is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) as well as of its British affiliate group, the Revolutionary Communist Party.[2] He is political editor of the RCI's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s.[3] A series of disagreements on tactics and theory led to Woods and Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International (soon renamed International Marxist Tendency) in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party.[4] Woods has expressed particularly vocal support for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez, leading to speculation that he was a close political adviser to the president.[5]