Charlie van Gelderen (14 August 1913 – 26 October 2001) was a South African

Trotskyist Trotskyism is the political ideology and branch of Marxism developed by Ukrainian-Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky and some other members of the Left Opposition and Fourth International. Trotsky self-identified as an orthodox Marxist, a ...

active in the British Labour movement from the 1930s. He attended the founding conference of the

Fourth International The Fourth International (FI) is a Revolutionary socialism, revolutionary socialist international organization consisting of followers of Leon Trotsky, also known as Trotskyism, Trotskyists, whose declared goal is the overthrowing of global ca ...

in 1938, and towards the end of his life he was the last survivor of that conference. In the 1940s, he played the leading role for the Revolutionary Communist Party's fraction in the Labour Party. He became a leader of the

International Marxist Group :''See also the International Marxist Group (Germany). The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It had around 1,000 members and suppor ...

, and served on the editorial board of its magazine, ''International''. After the break-up of the IMG, he joined the

International Socialist Group The International Socialist Group (ISG) was a Trotskyist organisation in Britain. It was the British section of the Fourth International (FI) until 2009 when it dissolved into Socialist Resistance. Origin The ISG was the result of the 19 ...

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Memorial meeting report
'' International Viewpoint''
Obituary by Terry Conway and Penelope Duggan
International Marxist Group members Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) members British Trotskyists South African socialists South African people of Dutch descent 1913 births 2001 deaths {{worker-activist-stub