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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. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Alan Woods has received more than 12,474 page views. His biography is available in 16 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 15 in 2019). Alan Woods is the 4,866th most popular writer (up from 5,121st in 2019), the 3,542nd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 4,027th in 2019) and the 404th most popular British Writer.

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  • 12k

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  • 55.01

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 16

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 4.26

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.30

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Alan Woods ranks 4,866 out of 7,302Before him are Reiner Kunze, Bruno Frank, Len Deighton, Konrad von Würzburg, Candy Barr, and Fran Levstik. After him are Muriel Barbery, María Martínez Sierra, Arnulf Øverland, Boris Vasilyev, Eugénio de Andrade, and Karel Sabina.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1944, Alan Woods ranks 471Before him are Jon Hiseman, Isao Okano, Said Musa, Valeriy Porkujan, Mick Jones, and Dennis Russell Davies. After him are Boris Klyuyev, Nancy Cartwright, Jill Tarter, Francesco Morini, Oscar Temaru, and John Kay.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Alan Woods ranks 3,542 out of 8,785Before him are Sheena Easton (1959), Michael Berry (1941), Joe Alwyn (1991), Len Deighton (1929), Giuseppe Wilson (1945), and Norman Hunter (1943). After him are James Prinsep (1799), Samson of Dol (490), John Belchier (1706), Gerald Moore (1899), David Morrissey (1964), and Peter Withe (1951).

Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Alan Woods ranks 404Before him are John Lyly (1554), W. W. Jacobs (1863), Mary Elizabeth Braddon (1835), Norman Smith (1923), Mary Stewart (1916), and Len Deighton (1929). After him are Susan Blackmore (1951), Anna Laetitia Barbauld (1743), Henry of Huntingdon (1080), Jonathan Coe (1961), Richard Bentley (1662), and Sam Houser (1972).