Tony Cliff

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.

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, United Kingdom
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