all wage suptheir 25 colleagues there, MERCU HOUS Solihull delegates for the most oisrecarcee nei members demanes. eleven voter against their own stewards' resdidn't turn up, and only four voted in favour of it.
The outraged Solihull stewaras anen attemoted to bass a motion of no confidence in their Negotia to be Culed oute deletes on to be ruled out of order by Having ensured that there will be no fight in practice against the Social Contract, the CP are there fore happy to propose this further nistorv it snould be supponed allowed t0 become just another talking shop.
The demand for wage rises tied COST OT lIVInG - a sticine been supported by many Leyland the cornerstone of the fight back.
EUEUICE events al Leviane nave shown unar ineres a crvine need for systematic organisation on the shop floor of those willing cial Contract policies and their CP backers.
vnar is wanted is nor anone vague committee to protest agaiine trade union bureaucracy, but ine organisation o1 acton. would give great opportunities To linking up with other workers in Healyism repugnant, crumbling and isolated gangster sect that the are today.In predecessor, dynamic on the British far left. Between then and now, nowever, healyısm nas degenerared remarkaory Cut off from the live forces of revolution after its refusa to unite with the bulk of the forces of world Trotskvism in 1963, Healyism was incapable of resisting the pressures of social democracv in the context of a working class in political retreat. This manifested itself in a refusal to fight in practice the spontaneous consciousness of the working class. All 'difficult' issues — racism, women's liberation, ireland and so on -sectarian jamborees and propaganda articles in the press. Unable, because of their national isolation, to appreciate the emergence of a new vanguard on a world scale in the late Sixties, the Healyites were incapable of breaking out of this propagandism.
DISINTEGRATION This inevitably led to the decline and ossification of the organisation. The disintegration first of the Internationa Committee and then of the WRP itself stood in marked contrast to the dynamism and evelopment of the Fl and its sections. Healy had to give answers to this, and to the increasing problems of the WAP became the way ne replied direction and perspectives. This method flowed inexor ably from the initial reasons for Healy's split and refusal to re-unify with the Fourth International.
The maintenance of the separate existence of his organisation was Justmed by an attempt to transtorm what were principle. The split with the Fl had to be presented as a class question - that the Fl in practice was going over to the class enemy. When this didn't occur, ulterior motives had to be introduced for the stated positions of the Fl Thus, when the Fl took the leadership of the radicalising youth — as in' France in 1968 have accommodated to the petty bourgeoisie. When it fought for united fronts and for the reformist leaders to come into united actions, it was deemed to have handed over leadership to the reformists. It was an easy step from inventing 'real' motives behind the stated ones, to lies and slander We would be less than honest if we didn't see aspects of these deformations in some of those organisations which have come out in defence of Hansen - particularly the OCRFI, Michel Pablo, and to a lesser extent the Workers Socialist League in Britain.
Healyism are the results of an objective process. This must stand product of Healyism but still maintain that the merely tactical differences between us are principles, that the F is marked through and through by trotskyist programme. Inese organisations hang in limbo between the road of Healy and reunification with the Fourth International. The question is posed: which way?
The rally with speakers ERNEST MANDEL, GEORGE NOVACK PIERRE LAMBERT, MICHEL PABLO and TIM WOLFORTH, and the WRP have not always been and late Fifties the WRP's the Socialist Labour League, was the mos were relegated to speechifying in a substitute for positive only tactical differences into differences of - the Fl was deemed to The results of as a clear warning to all those calling trotskyisis wno nave repuciated ine Tina La 'revision of the