Economic and Philosophic Science Review

Economic and Philosophic
Science Review

Type| Fortnighly newspaper
Format| A4
Owner(s)| EPSR Supporters
Editor| Don Hoskins
Founded| 1979
Political alignment| Marxism–Leninism
Headquarters| London
Website| EPSR website

The Economic and Philosophic Science Review (EPSR) is a British Marxist–Leninist newspaper founded by Royston Bull, formerly a leading member of the Workers Revolutionary Party and industrial correspondent for The Scotsman newspaper.

Bull split from the WRP in 1979 and with a number of supporters to form the Workers Party. The group, upon formally repudiating Trotskyism, renamed themselves the International Leninist Workers Party and later the Economic and Philosophic Science Review. Although Royston Bull died aged 69 on 2 January 2005, the EPSR continues to be published fortnightly, by its supporters.

## Policies

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The ILWP/EPSR are avowedly Marxist-Leninist and supportive of the Soviet Union model but critical of its party's revisionism which they attribute to Joseph Stalin's political errors. They are also very strongly supportive of Sinn Féin (and until its dissolution, of the Irish Republican Army) and many Third World national liberation movements.

During the 1970s Eurocommunists outside the group (adopting ideology of the New Left) attempted to promote a panoply of LGBT rights on the far-left. This gathered steam such that by the 1990s it was mainstream policy among far-left publications; the EPSR rejected the stance in 1999 outright as anti-social, saying homosexuality had "obvious disadvantages for any species in evolutionary terms".[1] John Pearson, a member of the revisionist Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee) in their Weekly Worker said this was homophobia.[2]

## Relations to Socialist Labour Party

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With the foundation of the Socialist Labour Party by the leader of the National Union of Mineworkers, Arthur Scargill in 1996, the EPSR dissolved itself into the SLP where they operated as a faction around their paper, the EPSR. Royston Bull was elected vice-president of the SLP in 1998, but was then almost immediately expelled (or 'voided') from party membership. Arthur Scargill, who had supported Bull's candidacy, used it to strengthen his position within the SLP. The election caused a significant rift within the SLP, with one member, Brian Heron, calling Bull's election "a disaster". Whilst some of Bull's supporters stayed within the SLP, most left to rejoin Bull and organised themselves as "EPSR supporters".

## Notes

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1. ^ Royston Bull, letter to the Weekly Worker, 28 January 1999. Retrieved 30 October 2013. [1]
2. ^ John Pearson, Letter to the Weekly Worker, 11 February 1999. Retrieved 30 October 2013. [2].

## External links

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* Economic and Philosophic Science Review official website

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Workers Revolutionary Party

General|

* Revolutionary Communist Party
* The Club
* Socialist Outlook
* Trotskyism
* Entryism
* International Committee of the Fourth International
* The News Line

National Leadership|

* Gerry Healy (1959—1978)
* Michael Banda (1978—1985)
* Gerry Healy (1985—1987)
* Sheila Torrance (1987—present)

Derivatives|

* Solidarity
* Workers' Socialist League
* Socialist Labour Group
* Workers Party
* Workers' Revolutionary Party (Workers Press) (later Communist Forum, International Socialist League and Workers International to Rebuild the Fourth International)
* Workers' International League
* Socialist Equality Party
* Marxist Party (later Communist League and Peace and Progress Party)

Related|

* Far-left politics in the United Kingdom

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Far-left politics in the United Kingdom

Groups|

| Extant|

| Marxist–Leninist|

* Communist Party of Britain
* Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
* Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
* Communist Party of Ireland
* EPSR Supporters
* Irish Republican Socialist Party
* New Communist Party
* Revolutionary Communist Group
* Revolutionary Communist Party of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
* Stalin Society
* Workers' Party of Ireland

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Trotskyist|

* Alliance for Workers' Liberty
* Socialist Action
* Socialist Party (England and Wales)
* Socialist Party (Ireland)
* Socialist Party Scotland
* Socialist Workers Network (Ireland)
* Socialist Workers Party
* WIRFI Supporters
* Workers Revolutionary Party

Anarchist|

* Anarchist Federation
* Class War
* Freedom Press
* Solidarity Federation

Left Communist|

* Communist Workers' Organisation
* Socialist Party of Great Britain
* Socialist Studies

Miscellaneous|

* 32 County Sovereignty Movement
* Communist League
* Communist Party of Great Britain (Provisional Central Committee)
* Counterfire
* Independent Working Class Association
* Industrial Workers of the World
* London Black Revolutionaries
* Revolutionary Socialism in the 21st Century
* Saoradh
* Scottish Socialist Party
* Workers Party of Britain

Electoral alliances|

* Trade Unionist and Socialist Coalition

Defunct|

| Marxist–Leninist|

* Association of Communist Workers
* Black Unity and Freedom Party
* British and Irish Communist Organisation
* Committee to Defeat Revisionism, for Communist Unity
* Communist Labour Party (Scotland)
* Communist League of Great Britain
* Communist Organisation in the British Isles
* Communist Party of Great Britain
* Communist Party of Scotland
* Communist Workers League of Britain (Marxist–Leninist)
* Leiston Communist Party
* Marxist Forum
* Revolutionary Communist League of Britain
* Revolutionary Internationalist Contingent
* Revolutionary Marxist–Leninist League
* Revolutionary Policy Committee
* South Wales Socialist Society
* Straight Left
* Workers' Institute of Marxism–Leninism–Mao Zedong Thought
* Workers Party of Scotland
* Working People's Party of England

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Trotskyist|

* The Club
* Communist Forum
* Communist League (1932)
* Communist League (1990)
* International Group
* International Marxist Group
* International Socialist Group
* International Socialist Group (Scotland)
* International Socialist Network
* League for Socialist Action
* Left Fraction
* Leninist League
* Marxist Group
* Marxist Party
* Marxist Worker
* Militant Group
* Militant Tendency
* Movement for Socialism
* Permanent Revolution
* Red Action
* Revolutionary Communist League (Chartist)
* Revolutionary Communist Party (1944)
* Revolutionary Communist Party (1978)
* Revolutionary Democratic Group
* Revolutionary Socialist League (1938)
* Revolutionary Socialist League (1957)
* Revolutionary Socialist Party
* Revolutionary Workers' Party
* Scottish Militant Labour
* Socialist Appeal
* Socialist Alternatives
* Socialist Democracy Group
* Socialist Group
* Socialist Labour Group
* Socialist Solidarity Network
* Socialist Unity Network
* Solidarity (Scotland)
* Workers' International League (1937)
* Workers' International League (1985)
* Workers' Internationalist League
* Workers League
* Workers' Socialist League

Anarchist|

* Anarchist Federation of Britain
* Anarchist Workers Association
* The Angry Brigade
* King Mob
* Movement Against the Monarchy
* Rose Street Club
* Space Hijackers
* United Socialist Movement
* Walsall Anarchists
* WOMBLES
* Worker's Friend Group

Left Communist|

* Anti-Parliamentary Communist Federation
* Communist Party (British Section of the Third International)
* Communist Unity Group
* Revolutionary Socialist Party
* Scottish Workers' Republican Party
* Socialist Labour Party
* Socialist Propaganda League
* Workers' Socialist Federation

Miscellaneous|

* Big Flame
* Common Wealth Party
* International Socialist Group
* Red Star
* Scottish Republican Socialist Movement
* Socialist Union
* Society of Gentlemen Supporters of the Bill of Rights

Electoral alliances|

* Red Front
* Socialist Unity

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