Schlagwort: Entrism
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History – Militant and the CWI
Could you sum up the history, firstly, of Militant and, secondly, of the CWI? What were the major landmarks? Militant did not drop from the sky. We trace our antecedents back to the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain and, of course, to Trotsky’s International Left Opposition. My generation joined in the early 1960s, others later.…
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Lynn Walsh: Six expelled in Blackburn
[Militant No. 682, 13th January 1984, p. 1] “It was an ugly meeting and a very ugly decision!” This was just one of the angry comments of party activists after Monday’s decision by Blackburn Labour Party to expel six Militant supporters. The comrades defended themselves against a barrage of fabricated stories, smears and outright lies…
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Leon Trotsky: On the answer of the English Section
[Letter to the IS, my own translation of the German text, typewritten copy in Lev Davidovič Trockij / International Left Opposition Archives, inventory number 1006, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam]. I was only able to take a very cursory look at the document. It is, predictably, based entirely on the alleged expulsion of the…
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9. The Proletariat and its Leadership
[Final Part of the Discussion Documents „World Perspectives“, 25 June 1974] The last six decades have seen the movement of the masses towards revolution in country after country, and continent after continent. It has been a period of revolution and counter-revolution unexampled in history. No other epoch in history can show a like movement of…