Chapter Five DURING 1958 THE entryist strategy which Healy had pursued inside the Labour Party since 1947 came under attack from two… Continue reading “Chapter Five”…
Chapter Four AT THE END of 1955, Gerry Healy’s political fortunes were at a low ebb. The split with John Lawrence two… Continue reading “Chapter Four”…
Chapter Three BY 1950, WHEN Gerry Healy secured his ascendancy over the Trotskyist movement in Britain, the Fourth International had entered a… Continue reading “Chapter Three”…
Chapter Two THE FUSION of the Workers International League and the Revolutionary Socialist League in March 1944, which established the Revolutionary Communist… Continue reading “Chapter Two”…
Chapter One WE KNOW that Thomas Gerard Healy was born in Galway on 3 December 1913, the son of Margaret Mary Healy… Continue reading “Chapter One”…
Introduction WHEN GERRY HEALY, the former leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party, died on 14 December 1989, his ambition to establish himself… Continue reading “Introduction”…
Preface IT’S NOT very often an author begins a book by urging readers to disregard virtually everything that is written in… Continue reading “Preface”…
The Rise and Fall of Gerry Healy Preface Introduction Chapter 1 (1913 – 1944) Chapter 2 (1944 – 1950) Chapter 3 (1950 – 1955) Chapter 4 (1955… Continue reading “The Rise and Fall of Gerry Healy”…
Red flag over St Pancras PART 1 This is the first part of a study of the political tendency associated with John Lawrence – a… Continue reading “Red flag over St Pancras”…
‘If you desire a coloured for your neighbour vote Labour’ – the origins of a racist leaflet This appalling leaflet is regularly posted on social media as a shocking example of racist political propaganda from the past.… Continue reading “‘If you desire a coloured for your neighbour vote Labour’ – the origins of a racist leaflet”…