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The '''Socialist Movement''' was a left-wing grouping in the United Kingdom which grew out of the Socialist Conferences held in Chesterfield, Sheffield and Manchester in the years following the defeat of the 1984–1985 miners' strike.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html |title=Red Pepper info booth |accessdate=2007-03-29 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20070814014320/http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html |archivedate=2007-08-14 }}</ref> Initiators included the Socialist Society, an organisation of left intellectuals including Raymond Williams, Richard Kuper, and Ralph Miliband, the Campaign Group, a left-wing group in the Labour Party, the Conference of Socialist Economists, and the network generated by the socialist feminist book ''Beyond the Fragments''.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/x-anotheresf.htm#_ednref7 |title=Red Pepper December 2002 |access-date=2007-03-29 |archive-date=2007-04-15 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070415214912/http://www.redpepper.org.uk/intarch/x-anotheresf.htm#_ednref7 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The largest conferences were in 1987 and 1988.
The Socialist Movement was open to different left traditions, green as well as red, for exploratory, grassroots debate and research on socialist policy making.
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==External links== *[http://www.redpepper.org.uk/ Red Pepper] *[https://web.archive.org/web/20070814014320/http://www.redpepper.org.uk/history.html History of the Socialist Movement and Red Pepper] {{British New Left}}
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