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W.R.P. Explosion - The Sabotage of an Opportunity to Regenerate Trotskyism 1985-1991
This episode — not simply the developments in the WRP itself, but the way in which other tendencies identifying with Trotskyism related to this process — contains important lessons for all who are serious about resolving the crisis of the Fourth International. The
RIL is therefore publishing this first draft of comrade Downing's balance sheet, and we invite comments
and discussion on this document.
RIL is therefore publishing this first draft of comrade Downing's balance sheet, and we invite comments
and discussion on this document.
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Published June 24, 2019
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Gerry Downing
3 books1 followerBritish Trotskyite politician.
Downing was active in the Worker Revolutionary Party where he became a critic of Gerry Healy's sexual blackmail of female party members.
He later became active in Socialist Fight a Liaison Committee for the Fourth International.
In march 2016 he was expelled from Labour for saying that the 9/11 attacks shouldn't be condemned.
Downing was active in the Worker Revolutionary Party where he became a critic of Gerry Healy's sexual blackmail of female party members.
He later became active in Socialist Fight a Liaison Committee for the Fourth International.
In march 2016 he was expelled from Labour for saying that the 9/11 attacks shouldn't be condemned.
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June 24, 2019The WRP explosion in October 1985 had a profound impact on all those who regard themselves as Trotskyists throughout the world. The fragmentation of the International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI or IC) (1), one of the main claimants, historically, to the ‘continuity of Trotskyism’ was a dramatic event, whose repercussions are still being felt.
This is my political evaluation of the WRP (Workers Press) in the period after it split with and subsequently expelled its founder and long time British Trotskyist and IC leader, Gerry Healy (2), in October 1985.
The basic premise that I have set out to demonstrate is, that despite sincere efforts on the part of the rank-and-file of the party’s members and some of its leaders, it failed in the task it set itself in the immediate aftermath of the expulsion of Healy; that of the regeneration of Trotskyism and the orientation to the reconstruction of the Fourth International.
The revolutionary impulse of the party to seek out the reasons for the degeneration of the Trotskyist movement in the post-war period was wrecked because those leaders, who had been responsible, with Healy, for many of the betrayals of Trotskyist principles in the past were unable to overcome their own corruption.
This is my political evaluation of the WRP (Workers Press) in the period after it split with and subsequently expelled its founder and long time British Trotskyist and IC leader, Gerry Healy (2), in October 1985.
The basic premise that I have set out to demonstrate is, that despite sincere efforts on the part of the rank-and-file of the party’s members and some of its leaders, it failed in the task it set itself in the immediate aftermath of the expulsion of Healy; that of the regeneration of Trotskyism and the orientation to the reconstruction of the Fourth International.
The revolutionary impulse of the party to seek out the reasons for the degeneration of the Trotskyist movement in the post-war period was wrecked because those leaders, who had been responsible, with Healy, for many of the betrayals of Trotskyist principles in the past were unable to overcome their own corruption.
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