Sean Matgamna, also known as John O'Mahony (the English language equivalent of Sean Matgamna) is a Trotskyist theorist. He was born in 1942 in County Clare in the Republic of Ireland. Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... 1942 was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... Poulnabrone Dolmen in the Burren, County Clare, Ireland, 2004. ...

He joined the Communist Party of Great Britain when he moved to Manchester to work as a docker, while still in his teens. He soon grew disillusioned with what he saw as the Communist Party's reformist stance, and joined the more openly revolutionary Trotskyist Socialist Labour League, led by Gerry Healy. The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. ... Location within the British Isles. ... Reformism (also called revisionism or revisionist theory) is the belief that gradual changes in a society can ultimately change its fundamental structures. ... The term Revolutionary is some what vague and may be thought to be relative to the context it is used in. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... The Workers Revolutionary Party was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Gerry Healy (December 3, 1913 - December 14, 1989) was a Trotskyist politician. ...

In the group, Matgamna soon became the youth organiser, but came to disagree with Healy over a number of issues, including Healy's anti-gay rights stance. As a result, Matgamna was expelled in 1964 and with a small number of supporters joined the other Trotskyist group operating in Manchester, the Revolutionary Socialist League. He soon grew dissatisfied with the group, feeling that they had moved away from orthodox Trotskyism and the International Secretariat of the Fourth International. He wrote a pamphlet, What We Are and What We Must Become, outlining his views. When the RSL declined to publish it, he distributed it himself and was as a result expelled from the organisation in 1966. The gay rights movement is a collection of loosely aligned civil rights groups, human rights groups, support groups and political activists seeking acceptance, tolerance and equality for non-heterosexual, (homosexual, bisexual), and transgender people - despite the fact that it is typically referred to as the gay rights movement, members also... 1964 was a leap year starting on Wednesday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Revolutionary Socialist League was the name of two Trotskyist political parties in the United Kingdom, one in the 1930s and 1940s and a second one which was founded in the 1950s and existed into the 1960s. ... Initially the title International Secretariat of the Fourth International was the name given to the executive committee responsible for the regular operation of the Fourth International (FI) founded in 1938. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (the link is to a full 1966 calendar). ...

Matgamna, working with two supporters, formed the Workers Fight group to act upon his views, central to which was a call for Trotskyist unity in Britain. A handful of other RSL members joined the group before, in 1968, the International Socialists also put out a call for unity. Responding to it, Workers Fight joined the IS as the Trotskyist Tendency. Workers Fight has been the name of several Trotskyist groups in the United Kingdom. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... Fist Logo The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a revolutionary socialist political party in Britain. ...

When the IS leadership forced Matgamna's tendency to leave the IS, it took with it a much increased membership. Martin Thomas soon joined, working with Matgamna to take prominent roles in the group. Matgamna became a full time theorist within the group, moving to London.

Throughout the late 1970s and into the 1980's the revived Workers Fight became more and more associated with Matgamnas leadership. This was accentuated by the disputes that led to the split from the group of the Workers Power group qwho had breifly joined Workers Fight in a fused grouping knoqwn as the International-Communist League. Similarly when the I-CL fused with the Workers Socialist League Matgamna was strongly identified as the central leader of one side ion the factional fight that later erupted and then split the fused group into two.

Matgamna was also known, even in the late 1960s, for holding the view that a redivision of Northern Ireland and granting the loyalist/unionist community political autonomy would contribute to a solution to the national question in Ireland. This was a very controversial position for a socialist to hold then as it is now and although it is the position of Matgamnas group as a body was and is closely associated with him as an individual. This approach tot he national question has since been extended, in large part by Matgmanaa, to other communities for example the inhabitants of the Islas Malvinas were considered by Mtgamna to have the right to autonomy during the short war between britain and Argentina over the fate of that archipelago. Mosty controversially of all Matgamna has in recent years argued strongly for a two state solution - that is states for both the Palestinians and Israelis - in the Middle East.

In the 1980s, Matgamna, along with many other members of the group, by then known as the Socialist Organiser Alliance, came to reconsider some of his views. Rereading works by Hal Draper and Max Shachtman led him to conclude that Third Camp socialism offered an expression of many of the conclusions he had come to. it has been argued by many on the left that matgamnas embracing of the politics of Shachtman and draper, which he has described as "the other Trotskyism", merely reverses his embrace of the ideas of James Cannon in the late 1960s and throughut the 1970s. Events and trends The 1980s marked an abrupt shift towards more conservative lifestyles after the momentous cultural revolutions which took place in the 1960s and 1970s and the definition of the AIDS virus in 1981. ... The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers Liberty is a small Trotskyist group based in the United Kingdom. ... Hal Draper (1914 -1990) was a socialist activist, Marxist, Left-Shachtmanite, and author. ... Max Shachtman (September 10, 1904 - 1972) is best known as an American Trotskyist theorist. ... Shachtmanism was a form of Trotskyism associated with Max Shachtman. ...

Matgamna is still a prominent member of the Trotskyist group he founded, now known as the Alliance for Workers Liberty. The Alliance for Workers Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers Liberty is a small Trotskyist group based in the United Kingdom. ...