Chapter Twelve
THE STORY of Healy’s expulsion from the WRP, combining as it did sexual scandal and the opportunity to discredit socialism,…
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Chapter Eleven
IN 1985 THE WRP plunged into terminal crisis. Within a matter of months, this most monolithic of far-left groups split…
Chapter Ten
THE ELECTION of a majority Labour government in October 1974 posed a major challenge to Marxists. It wasn’t difficult to…
Chapter Nine
IF A DETAILED account of Gerry Healy’s political career has a justification, it lies mainly in the period up until…
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…