Their Master’s Voice: Leaders of the WRP and the ICFI together for one of the last big rallies, the 4,000 strong Karl Maxx Memorial Rally at the Alexander Pavilion in March 1983. The five leaders split five ways after Healy's expulsion in October 1985; Gerry Healy, The Marxist party, Mike Banda, Communist Forum; Cliff Slaughter, WRP, (Workers Press); David North, Workers League (US) and effective leader of the post split ICFI, of which the WL is a sympathising section, Rodney Atkinson, then a YS National Committee member, now inactive; Claire Dixon, WRP (News Line). Contents Preface……………………………..…………...………………………………...Page 3 Introduction………………………………………………...…………………...Page 4 Chapter 1: The Break-up ……………………...………..……………………...Page 9 Chapter 2: The Implosion Continues ………………….…………………...Page 20 Chapter 3: Interregnum & Glasnost 1986 ………………………...……………...Page 32 Chapter 4: Problems of Philosophy………………..……………………… Page 50 Chapter 5: Chauvinism on the Irish Question …………………….…………… Page 63 Chapter 6: Break with the Irish Workers League………………………… Page 73 Chapter 7: Social Relations of the WRP ……………………………………Page 85 Chapter 8: The debate on Stalinism …….……………....…………………Page 92 Chapter 9: The relationship with the LIT …………………………..……Page 115 Chapter 10: Strange Bedfellows……………………………………..…… page 125 Chapter 11: Wasted Journeys ………………………………………………Page 139 Chapter 12: No Question of Principle …………………………………… Page 155 Chapter 13: End Game for the LIT and the WRP……………..…………Page 169 Chronology 1984-90 ……………..……………………………………….……Page 182 Glossary of publications and organisations….………………..…………Page 184 Published by The Socialist Fight Group PO Box 59188, London, NW2 9LJ,
[email protected] ISBN-13: 978-1468117073 (CreateSpace-Assigned) ISBN-10: 1468117076 © Gerald Joseph Downing . From page opposite This episode — not simply the developments in the WRP itself, but the way in which other tendencies identifying with Trotskyism related to this process — con- tains important lessons for all who are serious about resolving the crisis of the Fourth International.