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Fourth International Journal V. 13 No. 1: How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism

Fourth International Journal V. 13 No. 1: How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism

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This volume contains the comprehensive statement published by the ICFI in the wake of the 1985-86 split with the British Workers Revolutionary Party. ISSN: 0015 9204

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This volume contains the comprehensive statement published by the ICFI in the wake of the 1985-86 split with the British Workers Revolutionary Party. ISSN: 0015 9204

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Author ICFI
Publisher ICFI
Publication Date Summer 1986
Pages 120
Publication Type Pamphlet
ChapterPage
Editorial 3

How the Workers Revolutionary Party Betrayed Trotskyism 1973-1985,
Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International

Part One: From Trotskyism to Opportunism
1. Why the WRP Collapsed 7
2. Internationalism and the Fight for Trotskyism in Britain 10
3. Conflict with the OCI 16
4. The Founding of the Workers Revolutionary Party 19
5. The Expulsion of Alan Thornett 21
6. 1975: The Year of the Great Shift 26
7. The Labour Government in Crisis 30
8. The Trial of the "Observer" Lawsuit 33
9. The Fourth Congress of March 1979 34
10. The Election Campaign 35
11. The Degeneration of the Party Regime 37
12. The Right-Centrist Leaven of Ultra-Left Downsliding 38
13. 1981: The WRP Embraces the Popular Front 39
14. All Power to the GLC! 41
15. The WRP Attacks the Trade Unions 42
16. Towards the Party of Law and Order 43

Part Two: The Permanent Revolution Betrayed
17. The WRP Abandons the Proletariat of the Backward Countries 45
18. The Evolution of the WRP Policy in the Middle East 46
19. Perspectives of the Fourth Congress of the WRP (March 1979) 47
20. The WRP Betrays the Zimbabwean Revolution 49
20. The WRP Betrays the Zimbabwean Revolution49
21. The WRP Betrays the Arab Masses51
22. Libya: How the Bloc Looked in Practice55
24. How Healy Courted the Ba'athists56
25. The Outbreak of the Iraq-Iran War57
26. A Mission for Michael62
27. The Malvinas War: How Healy Worked as an Imperialist Stooge64
28. How Healy "Defended" the PLO69
29. The WRP and the Irish Struggle: A Case of Chauvinist Hypocrisy70
30. The WRP in Crisis73
31. The Idealist Distortion of Dialectical Materialism73
32. Opposition Inside the International Committee76
33. Youth Training: A Fabian Escapade78
34. The WRP Defends Stalinism80
35. Strange Interlude: The 1983 Elections83
36. "Dizzy with Success" -- The Sixth Congress of the WRP84
37. The Beginning of the End: The WRP and the NGA Strike90
38. Conflict within the International Committee93
39. The WRP Betrays the Miners Strike97
40. The 10th Congress of the International Committee109
41. The 10 Stupidities of C. Slaughter111
42. The WRP Breaks with Trotskyism114
43. Conclusion118