Chris Bambery
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Chris Bambery is the editor of Socialist Worker and a member of the Central Committee of the Socialist Workers Party.
Originally from Scotland he began his political career as a member of the International Marxist Group in the 1970s. He became a full time organiser for the IMG in Glasgow but famously disappeared from activity in early 1977 reemerging some months later as a member of the recently launched SWP where he immediately secured a position as a full time organiser for the new party.
In the 1980s he moved to North London as an organiser for the SWP and was elected a member of its Central Committee and later National Organiser which he held to 2004 when he replaced the long serving Chris Harman as editor of Socialist Worker.
He led the International Socialist Tendency at the Genoa Group of Eight Summit protest in Italy in 2001 with Alex Callinicos.
He is the author of numerous books and articles including;
- Scotland's National Question (1995)
- Ireland's Permanent Revolution (1990)
- Scotland - Nation & Class
- Scotland - The Socialist Answer
- Stopping The Nazi Menace - How To Fight The Fascists Today
- Fighting To Change The World
- Ireland - Why The Troops Must Get Out
- Permanent Revolution
- Imperialism
- A Rebel's Guide to Gramsci (2006)
