Bad Taste no. 60: Wally Warp on splits

The scan: sc-n123-nov-29-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 15, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 60 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: Wally Warp on splits.

page 15 of the scan

Six-panel cartoon strip: Wally Warp, ultrasectarian, explains that a split in the Fourth International is no tragedy — splits are part of the glorious revolutionary tradition, and the more little sects there are, the greater the chance one of them is the one true revolutionary party. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 60, Socialist Challenge no. 123, 29 November 1979, page 15. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #60.

2. Caption: "Wally Warp — ultrasectarian — speaks his — ah — well — er — 'mind'?" "A split in the Fourth International cannot be called a tragedy!"

3. "Splits are part of our glorious revolutionary tradition — I've been involved in more splits than you've had hot dinners!"

4. "I mean to say, Lenin himself led a split — so did Trotsky — so it figures that if your leadership at any time deviate from the path — you have to split!!"

5. "And anyway, the more little fragmented sects there are, the greater the chance that one of them is ....."

6. ".. the one, true, revolutionary party!!"