Chapter Six
BY MID-1960 ALL the potential for reforging the Trotskyist movement in Britain, which had arisen from the 1956-7 crisis in…
Category: History (page 3)
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…
Preface
IT’S NOT very often an author begins a book by urging readers to disregard virtually everything that is written in…
The Rise and Fall of Gerry Healy
Preface Introduction Chapter 1 (1913 – 1944) Chapter 2 (1944 – 1950) Chapter 3 (1950 – 1955) Chapter 4 (1955…
Red flag over St Pancras
PART 1 This is the first part of a study of the political tendency associated with John Lawrence – a…