The new group adopted the magazine "Socialist Review" as its central organ and it was to run from 1950 to 1962. Asserting their political continuity with Trotskyism they argued that they stood on the ideas of Leon Trotsky and Bolshevik Leninism except insofar as they differed as to their analysis of the states dominated by Stalinist parties. To this end they adopted three documents summarising their viewpoint; "The Nature of Stalin's Russia" (the first edition of Cliff's "State Capitalism in Russia"), "The Class Nature of the People's Democracies" and "Marxism and the Theory of Bureaucratic Collectivism". In closing their first conference the group sent greetings to Natalya Sedova Trotsky, the widow of Leon Trotsky, who like them held state capitalist convictions.