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A collection of articles by Bob Pitt

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…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 12th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Chapter Four

AT THE END of 1955, Gerry Healy’s political fortunes were at a low ebb. The split with John Lawrence two…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 12th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Chapter Three

BY 1950, WHEN Gerry Healy secured his ascendancy over the Trotskyist movement in Britain, the Fourth International had entered a…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 12th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Chapter Two

THE FUSION of the Workers International League and the Revolutionary Socialist League in March 1944, which established the Revolutionary Communist…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 12th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Chapter One

WE KNOW that Thomas Gerard Healy was born in Galway on 3 December 1913, the son of Margaret Mary Healy…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 12th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Introduction

WHEN GERRY HEALY, the former leader of the Workers Revolutionary Party, died on 14 December 1989, his ambition to establish himself…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 4th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Preface

IT’S NOT very often an author begins a book by urging readers to disregard virtually everything that is written in…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 11th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

The Rise and Fall of Gerry Healy

Preface Introduction Chapter 1  (1913 – 1944) Chapter 2  (1944 – 1950) Chapter 3  (1950 – 1955) Chapter 4  (1955…
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Posted on: 4th April 2021 Last updated on: 4th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

Red flag over St Pancras

PART 1 This is the first part of a study of the political tendency associated with John Lawrence – a…
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Posted on: 30th March 2021 Last updated on: 4th April 2021 Written by: bobpitt

‘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.…
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Posted on: 15th March 2018 Last updated on: 14th November 2024 Written by: bobpitt
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