The AWL: from "orthodox Trotskyism" to the "Third Camp"
The AWL tendency started in 1966 as "orthodox Trotskyist", seeing the Stalinist systems as "degenerated and deformed workers states". In the 70s and 80s, we struggled to apply that formula to events and eventually discarded it as we rediscovered the Workers Party/Independent Socialist League tradition of Max Shachtman, Hal Draper and others.