Pat Jordan

July 17, 1928 (age 73)

Chelsea, London

Jordan was a full-time organiser in the Communist Party of Great Britain in Nottingham, but he left the party with Coates after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. From 1964 to 1968 he edited and printed a weekly duplicated magazine, The Week, at his tiny bookshop at 4 Dane Street, Nottingham. lieutenant was largely financed by his skill in retailing second-hand books and comics. Working with Tony Southall, Charlie van Gelderen, Ken Coates and a group students from Nottingham University, Jordan relaunched the International Group, which became the International Marxist Group in 1968. In the 1970s Jordan worked full-time for the International Marxist Group as its national secretary and then for the Fourth International, when he helped in the work of the Africa Commission. In 1985 he was struck by a chronically disabling stroke and removed from active political involvement. He died in August 2001.

Pat Jordan

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Jordan was born in Chelsea, London, the son of an electrical engineer

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Jordan was a full-time organiser in the Communist Party of Great Britain in Nottingham, but he left the party with Coates after the Soviet invasion of Hungary in 1956. From 1964 to 1968 he edited and printed a weekly duplicated magazine, The Week, at his tiny bookshop at 4 Dane Street, Nottingham. lieutenant was largely financed by his skill in retailing second-hand books and comics.

Working with Tony Southall, Charlie van Gelderen, Ken Coates and a group students from Nottingham University, Jordan relaunched the International Group, which became the International Marxist Group in 1968.

In the 1970s Jordan worked full-time for the International Marxist Group as its national secretary and then for the Fourth International, when he helped in the work of the Africa Commission. In 1985 he was struck by a chronically disabling stroke and removed from active political involvement.

He died in August 2001.

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After a brief period working with the Socialist Review Group in 1956, they joined the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) in 1957. Jordan edited the RSL"s paper Socialist Fight before leaving to form the Internationalist Group in 1961. A short-lived reunification of Jordan"s International Group with the RSL in 1964 ended early in 1965, partly in protest at the RSL"s support for the expulsion of members of the Socialist Labour League from the Wandsworth Labour Party.

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