deputy predecessor children birth_place party office birth_date term_start image article_title term_end name
hannah sell '' position established '' nancy taaffe birkenhead , cheshire , england socialist party general militant labour general secretary of militant secretary of the socialist party general secretary of 1942 -lrb- age 72/73 -rrb- 1997 1992 1964 image : peter taaffe in 2006.jpg peter taaffe
 1997 1992 peter taaffe
peter taaffe

peter taaffe -lrb- born 1942 -rrb- is a british political activist and journalist .
he is the general secretary of the socialist party of england and wales and member of the international executive committee of the committee for a workers ' international -lrb- cwi -rrb- , which claims sections in over 45 countries around the world .
taaffe was the founding editor of the trotskyist `` militant '' newspaper in 1964 , and became known as a leading member of the entryist militant group .
taaffe was expelled from the labour party in 1983 , along with four other members of `` militant '' 's editorial board taaffe was influential in the policy decisions of liverpool city council of 1983 -- 87 , according to the council 's deputy leader derek hatton , in the formation of the militant tendency 's policy regarding the poll tax in 1988 -- 1991 , and the militant tendency 's ` open turn ' from the labour party in the late 1980s , becoming general secretary of militant 's eventual successor , the socialist party in 1997 .
