Charles Patrick Wall (6 May 1933 – 6 August 1990) was an English Trotskyist political figure and Labour Party Member of Parliament (MP) for Bradford North from 1987 to 1990. Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Events 1538 - Bogotá, Colombia, is founded by Gonzalo Jiménez de Quesada. Year 1990 ( MCMXC) was a Common year starting on Monday (link displays the 1990 Gregorian calendar) The English people (from the adjective in Englisc) are a Nation and Ethnic group native to England who predominantly speak English Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. The Labour Party is a Political party in the United Kingdom. Founded at the start of the 20th century it has been since the 1920s the principal party of the A Member of Parliament, or MP, is a representative elected by the voters to a Parliament. Bradford North is a Constituency represented in the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. Wall was a longstanding Marxist and a supporter of the Militant tendency. Marxism is the political philosophy and practice derived from the work of Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. The Militant tendency was an entryist group within the UK Labour Party founded in 1964
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Background
Born into a Liverpool working class family on 6 May 1933, he began political activity when he was picked up on a canvass by a local activist in 1950. Liverpool ( is a City and Metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary Working class is a term used in academic Sociology and in ordinary conversation to describe depending on context and speaker those employed in specific fields or types Events 1527 - Spanish and German troops sack Rome; some consider this the end of the Renaissance. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Canvassing is the systematic initiation of direct contact with a target group of individuals commonly used during Political campaigns A campaign team (and during Elections Wall adopted Marxism and Trotskyism and joined the Deane-Grant group, the remnant of the Revolutionary Socialist League which later became the Militant tendency - he became Garston Constituency Labour Party Secretary in 1952 at the age of 16. Jimmy Deane (1921 in Liverpool-August 2002 was a British Trotskyist who played a significant role in building the Revolutionary Socialist League. Edward (Ted Grant ( 9 July 1913 &ndash 20 July 2006) was a South African Trotskyist Politician who spent most of his adult The Militant tendency was an entryist group within the UK Labour Party founded in 1964 Garston could refer to several places England Garston Hertfordshire Garston Merseyside Garston (Merseyside [3]
As a young activist, Wall played a role in moving the Liverpool Labour Party to the left in the late 1950s as a member of the then joint Liverpool Trades Council and Labour Party executive member, he had also been one of the youngest Liverpool councillor in the 1950s. See City of Liverpool for other meanings Liverpool City Council is the governing body for the city of Liverpool in Merseyside [4]
Involvement with Marxist Journals
Pat Wall was associated with a series of journals aimed at leading and widening the influence of Trotskyist Marxism, and popularising without compromising or diluting it. Latterly, this was manifest in the roles he played in launching and establishing the Militant newspaper and before that on the editorial board of Socialist Fight of 1958-63. The Militant tendency was an entryist group within the UK Labour Party founded in 1964 [1]
His role in the production of the Marxist youth journal Rally, organ of the Walton Labour Youth League in the 1950s deserves particular mention. This journal, behind which he was one of the leading figures joining the editorial board after he'd returned from a period in the army [5], gained a national and even international circulation despite its humble origins and duplicated production. Terry Harrison, now a leading figure in the Liverpool labour movement, has described how it was Pat and Rally which
- "invited me to make a real commitment to the ideas of Marxism, and made me realise what this meant"
when he joined the LPYS in 1958. A list of all prison staff at the Wentworth Detention Centre in the Television series Prisoner. According to Ian Hunter, Wall was also a reader of the Revolutionary History journal. Revolutionary History is a British Journal dedicated to the History of the Far left. [2]
Internationalism
Pat's job as a mail order company buyer eventually took him away from Liverpool to Market Harborough, and then to Bingley in Bradford. Market Harborough is a Market town in Leicestershire, England. Bingley is a Market town in the Metropolitan borough of the City of Bradford, in West Yorkshire, England. It also took him abroad, and he established political contacts on his foreign travels: in Sri Lanka, Hong Kong, South Korea and even the United States. Sri Lanka, officially the Democratic Socialist Republic of Sri Lanka ( Sinhalese:, இலங்கை known as Ceylon before 1972 is an Island Hong Kong ( officially the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, is a territory located on China 's south coast on the Pearl River Delta, and borders South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea and often referred to as Korea ( Korean: 대한민국 tɛː The United States of America —commonly referred to as the The strong links he established with the Asian community in his Bradford constituency had led him to promise to speak in Pakistani Kashmir and Lahore on the fiftieth anniversary of Trotsky's death, had his own health allowed. This article is about the geographical region of greater Kashmir ( lahor is the capital of the Pakistani province of Punjab and is the second largest city in Pakistan after Karachi. Leon Trotsky ( Russian:, Lev Davidovich Trotsky, also transliterated Leo, Lyev, Trotskii, Trotski, Trotskij His assistance to Trotskyists in Sri Lanka in 1979 was still remembered in tributes sent in memoriam. [3]
Bradford North
Selected as Labour candidate for Bradford North in 1983, he faced press criticism for his Trotskyist views, particularly in a Sunday Times article which portrayed Wall as wanting "civil war" and "bloodshed",[4] whereas a Militant editorial statement said:
- "Pat explained that the Militant was in favour of a peaceful transformation of society. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. The Sunday Times is a Sunday Broadsheet Newspaper distributed in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland. No supporter of Militant would ever advocate or encourage 'bloodshed' or 'civil war'. . . Pat was explaining that if there was any threat to a peaceful transformation of society, that threat would come from the capitalist class itself". [5]
He was even disowned by the then Labour Party leader Michael Foot. Michael Mackintosh Foot (born 23 July 1913 is a British politician and writer [6]
When he stood again in 1987 in the same ward, he was featured in the Conservatives election broadcast of the 27th May 1987, attacking his candidature because he was a Marxist. He was quoted as saying: "A Marxist Labour government would mean the abolition of the monarchy, the house of lords, the sacking of the generals, the admirals, the air marshals, the senior civil servants, the police chiefs and in particular the judges". [6] The Sun also featured a photograph demanding Wall be defeated on the day of the election. The Sun is a Tabloid daily newspaper published in the United Kingdom and Ireland with the highest circulation of any daily English-language [7] Wall's campaign cut across this by holding mass public meetings and also 17 workplace meetings. [8] Wall won the seat, recording a 9. 9% swing from the Social Democratic Party. This is about the UK Social Democratic Party which existed between 1981 and 1988 [9]
References
- ^ [1] Rob Sewell's post-script to History of British Trotskyism
- ^ Revolutionary History, Vol. 3 Iss. 3
- ^ Revolutionary History, Vol. 3 Iss. 3
- ^ Sunday Times 7/3/82
- ^ Militant 592, 12/3/82
- ^ [2]Conservative Party Election Broadcasts from 1987
- ^ Militant, 26/6/87
- ^ Militant, 26/6/87
- ^ Militant, 26/6/87
External links
- Militant - official Militant tendency website
- The Rise of Militant - the official history
- Obituary by Ian Hunter
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| Preceded by Geoffrey Lawler |
Member of Parliament for Bradford North 1987–1990 |
Succeeded by Terry Rooney |
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