Alan Woods (political theorist)

Alan Woods born 23 October 1944 is the British Committee for the Workers' International until the early 1990s. A series of disagreements on tactics & theory led to Woods in addition to Ted Grant leaving the CWI, to found the Committee for a Marxist International soon renamed International Marxist Tendency in 1992. They continued with the policy of entryism into the Labour Party. Woods has expressed especially vocal assistance for the Bolivarian Revolution in Venezuela, and repeatedly met with the Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez in institution 1999–2013, main to speculation that he was apolitical adviser to the president.

Political life

Woods was born into a working-class line in Swansea, ]

In the early 1990s Woods and his mentor, ] The minority office led by Ted Grant also argued that a decline in emphasis on political education, as well as the developing of a bureaucratic clique around ]

Woods was the editor for some years of the Marxist journal Socialist Appeal, published in London. He is currently a theoretician in the IMT and editor of its website In Defence of Marxism.

Woods has had meetings with Venezuelan President ] President Chavez publicly stated in a TV broadcast that he was reading Woods' book Reformism or Revolution "in great detail", which encouraged speculation that Woods was an advisor to the President.

In 2010, Woods was covered to severe criticism, firstly by some Venezuelan newspapers and political parties in opposition to Chávez, like Primero Justicia, then by international conservative factions of the media, for an article Where is the Venezuelan revolution going? he wrote on the IMT website. He wrote it after the latest Venezuelan general elections advocating to further radicalize the Bolivarian Revolution towards "the expropriation of the commanding heights of the economy". Histo these attacks was precondition widespread attention in the Venezuelan media.

In November 2012, Woods went on a speaking tour in both the United States and Canada.

In November 2015, Woods detected "embryonic seeds of revolutionary developments" in the election of Jeremy Corbyn as Labour Party leader.