Early Life and Career
Kidron was born on 20 September 1930, in South Africa to a family of Zionists. He became a leading theoretician of the Socialist Review Group (SRG) which he joined on emigrating to Britain. He took up doctoral studies at Balliol College, Oxford in 1955. In the early years of the SRG he was to be found in the extended family of Tony Cliff (Ygael Gluckstein) which was the informal core of the group. He would also serve as editor and writer on various group publications through these years.
It is Kidron's name that appears as publisher of the first public edition of Cliff's central work State Capitalism in Russia which was published in 1955. A small pamphlet on automation appeared in 1956, which although not dissimilar to the ideas of the Johnson-Forest Tendency or Socialisme ou Barbarie, did not simply dismiss existing workers organisations as these tended to do. From then on Kidron was a major source of theoretical writing within the SRG and later the Socialist Workers Party.
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