Permanent Revolution was established in 2006
following the expulsion of a number of members of Workers Power in
July 2006. The original intention of the organisation was to
continue to try and build an organisation based on the core
principles of revolutionary Trotskyism that we had all long adhered
to while still members of Workers Power.
During the following seven years we produced 24 issues of a journal
that we think made a significant contribution to debates within the
far left, that attempted to develop Marxist theory to address new
issues and that offered coherent programmatic answers to key issues
facing the international working class. As a consequence the
journal developed a significant audience and our ideas won a
hearing across the left and the labour movement.
This literary contribution was matched by the activity of our
comrades who led struggles in a number of areas and a variety of
arenas – union, community, anti-cuts, anti-racist and so on.
However, with the development of a number of new campaigns,
networks and organisations, combined with the decline of the
established far left groups, we recognise the need for the left to
organise itself in radically different ways. As a result we have
now decided to cease publication of our journal and website.
Instead we will direct our efforts and resources to building those
initiatives, regionally, locally and nationally, that we believe
offer a way forward that is more effective than the maintenance of
ourselves as a distinct group – for example, the Anti-Capitalist
Initiative, Marxist Networks and radical trade union and
campaigning organisations that are working to renew the labour
movement and the left in working class communities.
We would like to thank you all for your support over the past seven
years and we know that we will continue to work with you in common
struggles in the years to come.
