Revolutionary Democratic Group

The Revolutionary Democratic Group (RDG) is a tiny socialist organisation in the United Kingdom. They were founded in the early 1980s as a split from London and Scottish branches of the Socialist Workers Party.

For many years, they considered themselves an "external faction" of the SWP, but in the late 1990s they joined Arthur Scargill's Socialist Labour Party, officially dissolving their organisation and becoming the Republican Group. They left, regained the RDG name and soon after joined the Socialist Alliance. They now have good relations with Communist Party of Great Britain and regularly pay for extended articles to be published in the Weekly Worker. The RDG is also active within the United Socialist Party political initiative started by former Liverpool Dockers to build a new workers' party.

The ideological centre of the RDG is an explicit commitment to republicanism. The RDG believes that the far-left concentrates excessively on economic struggles without a clear focus on the need for democracy. The organisation developed the concept of the social monarchy to explain the nature of the British state and seeks to demonstrate links between the existence of the monarchy and the continuation of capitalism.

In the 1987 election the RDG joined the Red Front, an electoral alliance spearheaded by the Revolutionary Communist Party.

They briefly sold the Alliance for Workers' Liberty's newspaper Solidarity. The group occasionally produces one-off editions of its newspaper, Republican Worker. These are targeted at particular events, such as conferences or demonstrations.

External link

• RDG page