Roger Protz
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Roger Protz is a British writer and campaigner.
He joined the Labour Party Young Socialists and became editor of its newspaper, New Advance. While remaining in the Labour Party, he joined the Trotskyist Socialist Labour League (SLL). In 1961, he resigned from New Advance to become the editor of the SLL's youth newspaper, Keep Left.[1] Within a few years, he moved to the rival Revolutionary Socialist League, where in 1964 he became the founding editor of The Militant.[2] After leaving the RSL, he joined the International Socialists where in 1969 he became the editor of Socialist Worker. He was expelled from the editor's role in 1974, and soon afterwards from the party, going on to found the Workers League.
He was an early member of the Campaign for Real Ale (CAMRA) in 1971, and has written several books on beer and pubs. He is the editor of CAMRA's Good Beer Guide, and is a well known writer on beer in the UK and regularly contributes to The Guardian.
Protz also frequently contributes article to website beer-pages, which he co-edits with Tom Cannavan.
[edit] Publications
- Roger Protz, The Complete Guide to World Beer. ISBN 1-84442-865-6.
