Chapter Nine
IF A DETAILED account of Gerry Healy’s political career has a justification, it lies mainly in the period up until…
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Chapter Eight
ALTHOUGH THE election of the second Wilson government in 1966 saw a partial reversal by Healy of the ultra-left turn…
Chapter Seven
HEALY’S DECISION to break his youth section from the Labour Party, and launch an independent Young Socialists, marked the end…
Chapter Six
BY MID-1960 ALL the potential for reforging the Trotskyist movement in Britain, which had arisen from the 1956-7 crisis in…
Chapter Five
DURING 1958 THE entryist strategy which Healy had pursued inside the Labour Party since 1947 came under attack from two…
Chapter Four
AT THE END of 1955, Gerry Healy’s political fortunes were at a low ebb. The split with John Lawrence two…
Chapter Three
BY 1950, WHEN Gerry Healy secured his ascendancy over the Trotskyist movement in Britain, the Fourth International had entered a…
Chapter Two
THE FUSION of the Workers International League and the Revolutionary Socialist League in March 1944, which established the Revolutionary Communist…
Chapter One
WE KNOW that Thomas Gerard Healy was born in Galway on 3 December 1913, the son of Margaret Mary Healy…
Introduction
WHEN GERRY HEALY, the former leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party, died on 14 December 1989, his ambition to establish himself…