Letter to the “Club”
By Jock Haston 10 June 1950 Dear Comrades, It is now 15 to 16 years since I broke with Stalinism…
Category: History (page 2)
Statement on the expulsion from the WIL of G. Healy at the Central Committee meeting of 7 February 1943
WIL Political Bureau THE EXPULSION of Comrade G. Healy from our organisation will no doubt come as a shock to many…
Appendices
STATEMENT ON THE EXPULSION FROM WIL OF G. HEALY AT THE CENTRAL COMMITTEE MEETING OF 7 FEBRUARY 1943 WIL Political Bureau…
Chapter Twelve
THE STORY of Healy’s expulsion from the WRP, combining as it did sexual scandal and the opportunity to discredit socialism,…
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…