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Alan Woods

1944 - Today

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Alan Woods (born 23 October 1944) is a British Trotskyist political theorist and author. He is one of the leading members of the Revolutionary Communist International (RCI) and was a founder of Socialist Appeal (now the Revolutionary Communist Party). He is political editor of the RCI's In Defence of Marxism website. Woods was a leading supporter within the Militant tendency within the Labour Party and its parent group the Committee for a Workers' International until the early 1990s. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Alan Woods is the 5,075th most popular writer (down from 4,865th in 2019), the 4,016th most popular biography from United Kingdom (down from 3,542nd in 2019) and the 435th most popular British Writer.

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Among writers, Alan Woods ranks 5,075 out of 7,302. Before him are Amitav Ghosh, Takeshi Shudo, Linda Grant, Miyamoto Yuriko, Michiel de Swaen, and Joseph Wambaugh. After him are Jón Kalman Stefánsson, Jean-Christophe Rufin, Gesualdo Bufalino, Gabriel Miró, Hermann Kant, and Yulia Drunina.

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Among people born in 1944, Alan Woods ranks 517. Before him are Emilio Zapico, Terry Jacks, Botho Strauß, Rita Mae Brown, Fatos Kongoli, and Paul Keating. After him are Bobby Womack, Monty Alexander, Antti Tuuri, Ramiro Blacut, Valmir Louruz, and Guity Novin.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Woods ranks 4,017 out of 8,785. Before him are Sarah Kane (1971), Dorothy Shepherd-Barron (1897), Cilla Black (1943), Linda Grant (1951), Michael Rennie (1909), and Thomas Andrew Knight (1759). After him are Charlie Whiting (1952), Tony Benn (1925), William Townsend Aiton (1766), Ian McNeice (1950), Peter Scott (1909), and G. M. Trevelyan (1876).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alan Woods ranks 435. Before him are Nicholas Evans (1950), Kim Newman (1959), Margery Allingham (1904), Mary Stewart (1916), Sarah Kane (1971), and Linda Grant (1951). After him are Stephen Spender (1909), Joan Aiken (1924), Elizabeth Jane Howard (1923), William Harrison Ainsworth (1805), Edward James (1907), and Bob Shaw (1931).

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