Party and class

Trotsky: "The Lever of a Small Group"

A letter to the British Trotskyists, 2 October 1933. The British Trotskyists were then a small group recently emerged from the Communist Party. The Independent Labour Party had been the main precursor of the Labour Party, and then, as an affiliated group within the Labour Party, the main bulk of Labour's individual activist base. In 1932, after conflict with the Labour leadership, the ILP disaffiliated. ILP membership, which had stood at 17,000 in 1932, plummeted to just 4,000 in 1935, but there was also left-wing ferment within the ILP. Trotsky favoured arguing within the ILP for an...

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Letters and debate from WL 37: What is state-capitalism? Yes, but what is the revolutionary party for? Download PDF Reviews: Springtime for Eva and Argentina Blair: a suitable case for treatment? Not yet the brackets

Silencing the wage slaves

Section on working class politics in Europe Download PDF Articles: Europe: The workers against mainstream politics (Hugh Jenkins) Blair plans a coup against party democracy The alternative Europe (Ken Coates MEP) What real reformists think of Blair (Anne Mack) Debate: Should we call for a workers' government?

The IRA in a West of Ireland Town in the 1930s

Below the great political generalities - opposition to British Imperialism, Partition, the "sell-out of Republican principles" by De Valera's constitutional Republican party, Fianna Fail - what was the IRA? Let us look at what it was in the 1930s in one area, Clare, and particularly in one town, Ennis, part of Eamonn De Valera's constituency. We are not, in this excursion, in which we will look at the labour movement in that town, wandering off the subject: we are trying to bring the IRA of that time and of such places, and the sort of people who joined it, into clearer focus. Republicanism is...

The IRA in a West of Ireland Town in the 1930s

Below the great political generalities - opposition to British Imperialism, Partition, the "sell-out of Republican principles" by De Valera's constitutionalRepublican party, Fianna Fail - what was the IRA? Let us look at what it was in the 1930s in one area, Clare, and particularly in one town, Ennis, part of Eamonn De Valera's constituency. We are not, in this excursion, in which we will look at the labour movement in that town, wandering off the subject: we are trying to bring the IRA of that time and of such places, and the sort of people who joined it, into clearer focus. Republicanism is...

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