Socialist Unity (UK)

See Socialist Green Unity Coalition for the group which stood candidates under this name in 2005.

Socialist Unity was a small socialist electoral coalition in the United Kingdom. It was formed by the International Marxist Group as a response to the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) standing candidates in elections.

Initially, in 1977, the IMG formed local groups, and then the national Socialist Unity grouping. They suggested an alliance with the SWP, which was rejected. The only other group to join Socialist Unity was the quasi-Maoist Big Flame which absorbed the remnants of the Libertarian Communist Group at this time.

The group stood several candidates in the 1979 UK general election, but all polled very poorly, and the coalition was dropped when the IMG decided to enter the Labour Party.