Tony Cliff
Tony Cliff | |
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 Tony Cliff in 1986 | |
| Born | Yigael Glückstein 20 May 1917 |
| Died | 9 April 2000 (aged 82) London, England |
Political party | Socialist Workers Party |
| Spouse | Chanie Rosenberg |
| Children | 3, including Donny Gluckstein |
| Relatives | Michael Kidron (brother-in-law), Baroness Kidron (niece), Adam Kidron (nephew) |
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 the United Kingdom 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.