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	Tony Cliff: Maailma voitettavana
		Socialist Workers Partyn perustajajäsen Tony Cliff oli vallankumouksellinen sosialisti yli 60 vuoden ajan.
		Cliff kirjoitti kirjan esseet sosialistisille järjestöille Saksassa ja Kreikasssa viimeisenä elinvuotenaan.
		Cliff kirjoitti samalla tavalla kuin puhui, välittäen ajatuksensa kuivan retoriikan sijaan maanläheisten esimerkkien ja tarinoiden avulla.
	www.sosialistiliitto.org /nettik/maailma_voitettavana (49 words)

	Tony Cliff
		Cliff, who was also known as Ygael Gluckstein, came to Britain from Palestine in the 1940s and soon made a name for himself in the acrid environment of the fledgling Trotskyist movement.
		Cliff`s other main deviation from the scriptures of orthodox Trotskyism was more long lasting and came with the view he adopted towards the nature of the Soviet Union.
		Cliff popularised the state capitalist thesis within the British Trotskyist movement, first of all in a discussion paper within the main Trotskyist party in Britain at the time, the Revolutionary Communist Party, and then in his book Russia: A Marxist Analysis, which was later re-published as State Capitalism in Russia.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/may00/cliff.html (1881 words)

	Tony Cliff - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		For most purposes Cliff was a supporter of the leadership of the RCP around Jock Haston and as such he was involved with the discussions concerning the nature of those states dominated by Russia and the Communist parties initiated by a faction within the RCP.
		Cliff developed a version of the theory that Russia and the 'glacis countries' (buffer states), as they were referred to in the Fourth International at the time, were state capitalist.
		Cliff's biography is, as he himself remarked, inseparable from that of the groups he was a member of.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tony_Cliff (1209 words)

	Tony Cliff 1917-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cliff's about-face on the nature of Stalinism is testimony to one of his great strengths throughout the difficult years of the 1950s and 1960s: a terrific ability to break from orthodoxy in order to critically reexamine old positions.
		Cliff concluded by the late 1960s that his loose, libertarian organization of the 1960s had to be tightened and hardened--and quickly, he argued, or the chance to build a revolutionary party would be lost.
		Cliff's errors in recent years were part of the general frustration bred by the disappointments that followed the great excitement of 1968-75, a period in which the IS distinguished itself as one of the most creative forces on the far-left.
	www.solidarity-us.org /atc/88McNally.html (1402 words)

	Tony Cliff: A Political Appreciation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		ALTHOUGH THE death of Tony Cliff is unambiguously a loss to the revolutionary left, a balanced assessment of his political life must indicate his political weaknesses as well as his strengths.
		Whether the mechanism that Cliff and Kidron posited for the very long and immense capitalist boom that followed World War II is correct or not (Kidron now rejects the theory, I believe), the fact of this boom, and the fact of rising working class prosperity, was inescapable to anyone with eyes in their heads.
		So perhaps what Cliff wanted done was often performed in a crude wooden way, though he contributed to this, often using the metaphor about "bending the stick", with the result that his exaggeration became translated a couple of layers down the SWP into a gross distortion because of rawness and inexperience in the organisation.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext16/Cliff.html (2160 words)

	Biography of Tony Cliff (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		As Cliff rose in the RCP ranks, Ted Grant left the RCP, describing the Soviet Union as "state capitalist" and denouncing the RCP's critical support of the USSR (see Shachtmanism and the Socialist Party).
		Cliff was asked to write an RCP response to Grant's state capitalist theory, but instead supported it himself and was soon afterward expelled from the RCP.
		During the 1956 anti-Stalinist revolution in Hungary, Cliff gained many new adherents with his message "Neither Washington nor Moscow." In 1958, the SRC became the "International Socialists" (IS) and in the 1960's managed to capture the Labour Party's Young Socialists group.
	reds.linefeed.org /bios/cliff.html (432 words)

	Tony Cliff: 1917-2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Tony Cliff -- Jewish revolutionary, born in Palestine in 1917, active in the Trotskyist movement since his teens, founder of the International Socialists in Britain 50 years ago -- passed away April 9 at the age of 82.
		Cliff's insistence that Russia was state-capitalist was important not just as a theory of Russia, but as a theory of socialism.
		Cliff spent the decade of the 1970s patiently winning the new generation to the ideas of Vladimir Lenin, ideas that are indispensable in building a revolutionary socialist party.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2000/330-09-cliff.html (1568 words)

	Tony Cliff A World to Win, Life of a Revolutionary (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cliff argues, unconvincingly, that his differences with Trotsky, particularly over the class nature of the Stalinist states, were not a break with Trotskyism as such but brought it into line with the main body of the Marxist tradition.
		Cliff defends his theory at length, however, in A World to Win, and since it (with the later upturn theory) has been such a major part of the politics of the SWP over the past 20 years it is worth looking at his arguments in detail.
		Cliff eventually declared the end of the long downturn in 1989 By this time the level of the class struggle was a pale shadow of that which existed when he declared it.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/37cliff.html (3253 words)

	Tony Cliff: This is what socialism looks like (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cliff was a not only a student of the revolutionary tradition in a historical context.
		Cliff unraveled the secret of Stalinism, explaining that the rhetoric of socialism was only a cover for state capitalism.
		Cliff understood that the power of revolutionary Marxism as a world view was its claim to making socialism a visible, living possibility for the first time in history.
	www.web.net /sworker/En/SW2001/353-07-cliff.html (959 words)

	Tony Cliff’s Family Tree
		Cliff ‘‘discovered’’ that the Soviet Union was ‘‘capitalist’’ and therefore refused to defend the North Korean deformed workers state (which like China, North Vietnam, etc., was also supposedly ‘‘state capitalist’’) against U.S. imperialism and its allies.
		Cliff’s ‘‘theory’’ of state capitalism is at least as contradictory as the positions taken by his group.
		Nevertheless, Cliff and his followers argue that the USSR is ‘‘capitalist’’ because of a drive to ‘‘accumulate’’ industrial capacity and the necessity to ‘‘compete’’ militarily with the West.
	www.bolshevik.org /1917/no6/no06clif.html (554 words)

	John Rees: Tony Cliff - theory and practice (2000)
		Crucially for Cliff, it became the arena where his analysis of the downturn was given its most elaborated shape in the debate with Steve Jeffreys, then a leading member of the SWP.
		But once Cliff was convinced that he had grasped the nature of a problem clearly, whether the state capitalist nature of the Stalinist states or the practical details of a particular aspect of party work, he would pursue it relentlessly and with great impatience.
		Cliff often used this quotation to insist that revolutionaries should not lie to themselves about their own prospects for success, that they should look reality in the face no matter how difficult that might be.
	www.marxists.de /intsoctend/rees/cliff.htm (2349 words)

	Tony Cliff - Biography
		Tony's work is now published by Stainer and Bell, Faber Music, Studio Music and many other companies and his music ranges from works for solo instrument and piano to choral pieces and works for brass band, wind band and jazz orchestra.
		Tony is a member of the SPNM, PRS and MCPS and also a member of the Musicians’ Union and Incorporated Society of Musicians.
		Tony is an accomplished classical and jazz pianist and plays regularly in several of Cornwall's most prestigious hotels including Penmere Manor, Budock Vean and the Headland Hotel.
	www.tonycliffmusic.com /biography.htm (278 words)

	The Voice of the Turtle
		Cliff should go down in history as the most successful of a troika of British Marxists from the 1940s which included himself, Gerry Healy and Ted Grant.
		I think of the contact Tony Cliff describes who was signed up to the Socialist Review Group in the dark days of the 1950s, when the party was isolated and every potential member was special.
		Cliff attempted to visit this new name one weekday evening, only to be told that the ten-year old son of the house had already gone to bed.
	www.voiceoftheturtle.org /show_article.php?aid=25 (900 words)

	Telegraph \| Opinion \| Way of the world
		Whenever he was photographed, Tony liked to point a daft finger at his companion, or to put his hands around their throat in a comical gesture.
		For at least 30 years, both Tony and Cliff seem to have realised that, despite their best efforts, or perhaps because of them, they are destined to be always out of kilter with the times.
		Cliff, Noel, Tony: theirs is the freemasonry of the unfashionable, the coterie of the uncool, the network of the naff.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2004/06/26/do2606.xml&sSheet=/portal/2004/06/26/ixportal.html (1075 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Blackburn victory over Cliff ban
		Cliff is as relevant now with his music as he was in the 1950s, and long may it continue.
		Cliff was an intrinsic part of my youth and yes I know all the words of all his songs and I enjoy joining in.
		Cliff Richard is a national treasure and this country should be proud of his enormous contribution to pop music over the past six decades.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3835743.stm (3852 words)

	Tony Cliff -- a life for revolution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Cliff was a person with complete contempt for bourgeois niceties, something obvious in his dress and extremely modest financial circumstances.
		Cliff responded to the May-June general strike in France with a new edition of his long pamphlet on Rosa Luxemburg, and a pamphlet on the lessons of the May-June events in France, co-authored with Ian Birchall.
		Tony Cliff built a substantial party which has been unbendingly hostile to capitalism, to bureaucracy in the workers' movement and to all forms of exploitation and privilege.
	www.greenleft.org.au /back/2000/402/402P12.HTM (2134 words)

	Tony Cliff
		Cliff was absolutely central at every stage, and his legacy is a party that can begin to make a difference and influence the struggle.
		Tony Cliff was a giant who touched many lives in the fight for socialism.
		As Cliff stressed with his metaphor, although the forces at work are similar to those of seven decades ago we are fortunate in having more time to cope with them and to ensure a different outcome.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /sr241/cliff.htm (7498 words)

	Will this play in Peoria
		Cliff Parks is the pastor of the Peoria congregation of the Worldwide Church of God.
		Tony was enthusiastic, but because an experiment of merging with another congregation was ending in failure, he was well aware of the difficulties.
		Cliff and Tony believe that the new church will attract members of other ethnic groups as well.
	www.christianodyssey.org /06/peoria.htm (1651 words)

	A Summary Description of the Tony Cliff papers
		Tony Cliff was born in Palestine in 1917 with the name Ygael Gluckstein.
		Tony Cliff was the author of a number of books, which explained his theories.
		Tony Cliff died in April 2000, at which time the SWP had over 10,000 members.
	www.warwick.ac.uk /services/library/mrc/ead/459col.htm (399 words)

	Energized - Journey to the Moon
		Tony had sent him a message asking him to come during the night time, on the grounds that the daytime was too hot these days.
		Tony was walking beside her; he too had changed beyond recognition in the years since they had first encountered Loki.
		Tony was looking at the Eagle and diverted the conversation onto the problem of loading it.
	www.space1999.net /users/fanfiction/journey.html (2644 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Entertainment \| TV and Radio \| Tony Blackburn in Sir Cliff row
		A spokesman for Blackburn said he was disappointed at his suspension and conceded he may have made a mistake.
		A spokeswoman for Sir Cliff said the singer was at the Wimbledon tennis tournament and unavailable for comment.
		"Tony believes Cliff has some great songs and was trying to test out public support," he said.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/3833441.stm (491 words)

	Paul Foot: Tony Cliff (2000)
		I met Cliff many hundreds of times subsequently, sometimes for private conversations, more often on shared platforms, from which we urged our audiences to join IS and its successor, the Socialist Workers Party, and to organise for socialism.
		Tony Cliff was born Ygael Gluckstein, the son of a Zionist building contractor, in Palestine, in May 1917, in between the great Russian revolutions.
		This achievement was due largely to Cliff’s most striking qualities; his immense intellectual power and his ability to explain his libertarian Marxism in simple language.
	www.marxists.de /intsoctend/foot/tonycliff.htm (997 words)

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		Bosses at Classic Gold Digital radio fired off a furious email to Tony Blackburn, a pioneer of pop music radio in Britain, to say it was against company policy to play tracks from the 63-year-old knight.
		"Tony is gutted," said a friend quoted by Press Association, Britain's domestic news agency.
		Tony hopes the situation can be resolved so he can get back to his show."
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /cgi-bin/blah/Blah.pl?b=NG,m=1088087860 (311 words)

	Tony Cliff Profile
		Tony Cliff provides high quality musical entertainment with outstanding keyboard skills and warm relaxed vocal style.
		Tony has a wide repertoire from classic songs of the 1930's and 40's, through the great music of the 50's and 60's right up to the most contemporary jazz and pop material.
		Tony regularly plays over 200 bookings a year in Cornwall.
	www.onstageregister.com /43/Tony-Cliff.aspx (95 words)

	The Oregon Stater, Dec. 2003
		OSU emeritus professors Tony Van Vliet, ’52, and Clifford Trow, politicians from the same town but on opposite sides of the aisle, are friends and occasional foes who regularly traveled their turf together in hopes of grasping issues and finding solutions.
		On a blustery autumn Monday, the Cliff and Tony Show is making yet another stop, this time at a small table in the back of the Allann Bros. Beanery restaurant in northwest Corvallis.
		The longtime friends have come together to reflect on their two decades of public service, a time when they were household names in Benton County, the last of a special breed of statesmen who were respected regionally for their statesmanship.
	alumni.oregonstate.edu /stater/issues/Stater0312/clifftony.html (184 words)

	PEN-L message, Fwd: Tony Cliff dead at 82
		> >Tony Cliff was born Ygael Gluckstein, the son of a Zionist building >contractor, in Palestine, in May 1917, in between the great >Russian revolutions.
		His unique intellectual contribution was >to describe, in the late 1940s, the Soviet Union as state capitalist, >and therefore imperialist - a proposition as shocking to most socialists >of the time as it was inspiring to those of us who were convinced by it.
		As he was chatting to the managing director >in his office, the sultan heard a blast on a hooter.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/pen-l/2000m04.2/msg00247.htm (1111 words)

	Cliff Richard Message Board: Radio - DJ Tony Blackburn suspended for playing Cliff Richard ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		And Cliff even more so,he was after all in on the start of the pop music explosion and he's still there so surely it is only right that his work is represented by a Classic Hits Station.
		Tony Blackburn played Cliff singing Devil Woman this morning, he said he is lifting the iron-curtain and will be playing Cliff everyday.
		As well as promising to play a Cliff record each morning he is asking for listeners to E-Mail or text in with their comments.
	www.cliffrichard.org /cgi-bin/discus/board-auth.cgi?file=/6941/95281.html (2935 words)

	As you were saying - Tony Cliff against the Muslim Brotherhood \| Workers' Liberty (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Its true nature is defined clearly in the excerpt below from the Palestinian Jewish Trotskyist Tony Cliff, writing in 1946.
		Cliff would later become the long-time leader of the Socialist Workers’ Party (SWP) in Britain.
		The English and American workers must demand, at the same time, the opening of the gates of their countries to the victims of fascism including the Jews; and must organise material assistance for the suffering European masses in general and those in the Displaced Persons’ Camps in particular.
	www.workersliberty.org /node/view/3266 (1167 words)

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