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	Pierre Lambert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		In the PCI he was known as a specialist in trade union matters and rarely took a stand on international issues.
		When Michel Pablo, the secretary of the Fourth International, raised the question of entrism sui generis he took no stand until his field of operation in the trade unions was threatened.
		By this time, 1952, the PCI had split into two mutually hostile groups on the question of entrism sui generis and the associated perspective of hundreds of years of deformed workers states propagated by Pablo.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Pierre_Lambert (392 words)

	Militant Tendency - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Initially less intent on a policy of entrism into the Labour Party than the other Trotskyist groups, they became convinced of the need for this tactic during the 1950s.
		The newspaper The Militant was founded in 1964 with Peter Taaffe as editor, when the majority of the group broke from the International Secretariat of the Fourth International with the minority forming the International Group, which was to develop into the International Marxist Group.
		By beginning of the 1990s most of the Militant group were no longer carrying out entrist tactics and in 1991 formed themselves into a separate party, first calling themselves Militant Labour (and in Scotland, Scottish Militant Labour) and latterly in England the Socialist Party.
	www.peekskill.us /project/wikipedia/index.php/Militant_Tendency (717 words)

	CONK! Encyclopedia: Fourth_International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Those who argued that the new states amounted to a progressive development, in however limited a fashion, concluded that the Stalinist bureaucracy was not an entirely counter-revolutionary force.
		This tactic was known as entrism sui generis, to distinguish it from the short term entry tactic employed before World War Two.
		They proposed undertaking entrism into Communist Parties as well as Nationalist parties in the colonies, pressing for democratic reforms, ostensibly to encourage the left-wing they perceived to exist in the bureaucracy to join with them in a revolution.
	www.conk.com /search/encyclopedia.cgi?q=Fourth_International (3250 words)

	Socialist Solidarity Network - Articles
		Entrism tended to be conceived as a strategy and not a tactic, inevitably posing the question of a split if entrism was abandoned.
		Entrism was a badge of honour, a key point of difference with others on the left.
		In retrospect, it can be seen that the break from entrism in the early 1990s represented an opportunity for the opening up of the organisation to new methods of work, a more constructive relationship with the mass social movements and others on the left, and a less sectarian and dogmatic theoretical approach.
	www.socialistsolidarity.com /docs_mil_ph.htm (6728 words)

	The Transitional Program Now, Nahuel Moreno 1980 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Therefore, the entrism advocated by Trotsky was not realised infringing that principle but rather as a tactical manoeuvre, provisional and of short duration, that started from being aware of an objective situation and an opportunity that opened to us.
		Entrism as advocated by Trotsky was a question of a social political reality: the emergence of really progressive centrist currents inside the mass organisations.
		Entrism is part of this policy we should have towards any centrist organisation that orients itself towards revolutionary positions and that emerges from mass parties or mass organisations.
	www.marxists.org.uk /archive/moreno/1980/transitional-program/ch06.htm (9099 words)

	::socialnerve:: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Trotsky first detailed entrism as being when a smaller worker’s organization that is revolutionary, enters into a larger worker’s organization that is not This is done during a period of crisis.
		Grant realized that in order for entrism to be truly effective, Marxists had to play a recognized role in the labour movement even before a revolutionary situation, while at the same time continually working as revolutionaries.
		Entrism is a set of tactics on how to best reach the working class.
	www.socialnerve.org /x/youth_tactics/001.htm (3115 words)

	Problems of Entrism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Here we can only give a brief sketch of the history of entrism in Britain, dealing with the most important points only, which are of interest for the purposes of clarification and discussion.
		But even at the height of the successes of the RCP, in discussion of the problems of entrism, the basic question of the probable entry of the revolutionary forces into the LP was posed.
		This is the historical justification for the policy of entrism.
	www.tedgrant.org /works/5/9/problems_entrism.html (4888 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party: For The Scottish Turn: Against Dogmatic Methods In Thought And Action
		At that time, Trotsky saw entrism as a short-term tactic: under conditions of a revolutionary or pre-revolutionary crisis in society, there would be a crisis within the Social Democracy, with the development of a mass left-wing.
		In 1945-49, EG discussed entrism as a flexible tactic which had to be worked out in relation to perspectives, the concrete conditions, and a practical assessment of the results which could be obtained from different fields of work.
		In 1949, entrism was accepted by the leadership of our tendency, for want of something better: to as far as possible preserve the cadres of the tendency, and because, in any case, there were not particularly favourable conditions outside the party.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/main/majoritydoc.htm (19157 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party: A comment on some aspects of entrism
		In the course of the current debate on the perspectives for the tendency, the argument has been used that the proposed Scottish turn and the events in Walton could destroy 40 years of work in the Labour Party, that the proposals are "turning our backs on 40 years of experience".
		BL has produced a short document showing how the question of entrism was approached in the immediate post-war period.
		This was squandered, by their methods and their politics - it was not only entrism that separated us from the sects, but approach, method and perspectives - but it did show that, once out of the Party, it was still possible to re-enter with positive results.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/other/ta.htm (1587 words)

	In Defence of Marxism - The New Turn – A Threat To Forty Years Work
		No matter what they say, this undoubtedly signifies a break with the policy of entrism, and a turn in the direction of an ultra-left, sectarian policy, which we are convinced would have disastrous effects on our organisation.
		Trotsky put forward his idea of classical entrism in the early 1930s, when there was a leftward swing in the ILP which had split from the Labour Party.
		Entrism then was considered a short-term tactic of entering reformist parties when in ferment, penetrating the growing left wing and rapidly crystallising the revolutionary opposition.
	www.marxist.com /new-turn-militant.htm (12969 words)

	Reply to Christoph (12 April 1998)
		Entrism into the Socialist Alliance is regarded as betrayal of Bolshevism, and I am subjected to a Spartacist-style hysterical gang-bang primarily from PRGers on IRC when I advocate it.
		Entrism, may I remind comrades, is not the same as doing fraction work in an opponent organisation to win its members to support another organisation.
		Entrism, or "work[ing] as a faction [not fraction - ID] in the spirit of Bolshevism" means that one does not rule out in advance that it is possible to win the majority of the members, and even the organisation itself, to Bolshevism.
	members.aol.com /revolutiontruth/xoph.htm (3621 words)

	Alan McCombes - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Alan McCombes (born 1955) is one of the leading members of the Scottish Socialist Party.
		He was a member of the Militant Tendency before the decision to cease entrism and establish a separate party.
		In the 1990s he was active in uniting the far left in Scotland, firstly in the Scottish Socialist Alliance, then in the Scottish Socialist Party.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Alan_McCombes (166 words)

	Marxism message, Entrism, united fronts and the SLP
		In the discussion on entrism and united fronts, an important point seems to have been missed.
		If you utilise such tactics merely to recruit to your own organisation and/or show up the reformist leadership, then obviously you will annoy many genuine workers (as well as the bureaucrats who will be hostile whatever you do).
		This approach is a major reason why Militant was able to successfully use the tactic of entrism within the Labour Party in the past, whereas others have failed.
	archives.econ.utah.edu /archives/marxism/1996-01-08.000/msg00297.htm (752 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		ENTRISM - "DEEP" AND "RAIDING PARTIES" The key to understanding the varied history of SWP/DSP intervention in mass movements is the concept of "entrism".
		Under tactics based on "entrism", Trotskyists entered the mass communist or social democratic parties to form their own leftwing groups.
		There are several variants of "entrism": "DEEP ENTRISM" implies the concentration of all members of the Trotskyist Group in entrist work in the "host" party.
	www.active.org.au /hobart/news/local/webcast/uploads/a_little_b.txt (3799 words)

	Against Trotskyist entrism, factionalism, and mechanical reasoing
		Entrism was, in essence, nothing but a continuation of his method of replacing party-building with factionalism within a larger grouping.
		While the results of entrism in the mid-30s were fairly modest, it set a pattern for future Trotskyist activity.
		But the influence entrism and the "French turn" can also be seen on various Trotskyist groupings who have their own independent organization.
	www.flash.net /~comvoice/35cTrotsky.html (17855 words)

	LINKS 15 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Militant/SP is important to analyse because in the late 1970s and 1980s it became the biggest far left group in Britain, during its period of entrism in the Labour Party.
		In fact, the Militant scenario was one variant, one theoretical possibility, in the curve of development, but justified in a way that didn't take account of the profound changes in the relationship between the social democratic parties and the mass of the working class which have taken place since the 1930s.
		Entrism, at a certain point, was not necessarily wrong—especially in relation to the LPYS.
	www.dsp.org.au /links/back/issue15/Hearse.htm (6451 words)

	Gareth Jenkins: Centrism (1985/87)
		He therefore set out either to win existing leaderships (as was the case in Holland) or to have his supporters enter openly and by dint of their theoretical and practical superiority take over from the existing leadership.
		The purpose of entrism would not be to pretend that such organisations as a whole could be won to revolutionary politics but to detach a minority while it was moving leftwards under the impact of social crisis.
		Given that perspective, entrism was necessarily a short term tactic, to be completed before the gravitational pull of reformism reasserted itself and sucked revolutionaries behind it.
	www.marxists.de /theory/whatis/centrism.htm (2115 words)

	Militant Tendency (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Initially less intent on a policy of entrism into the Labour Party than the other Trotskyist groups, they became convincedof the need for this tactic during the 1950s.
		The newspaper The Militant was founded in 1964 with Peter Taaffe as editor, when the majority of the group broke from the International Secretariat of the Fourth International with theminority forming the International Group, which was todevelop into the International MarxistGroup.
		Ineffective attempts to control Militant were made byparty leader Michael Foot in the early 1980s, and were carried on with morevigour by Neil Kinnock.
	www.therfcc.org /militant-tendency-91579.html (444 words)

	Duncan Hallas: Pioneers of the tradition (1985) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Third, because the issue of entrism soon became central for the British Trotskyists of this period.
		When the three groups were eventually re-united in the second half of 1938 their claimed total membership was 200, less than the combined total in late 1934.
		Moreover, as events were to prove, many of them were so ‘hooked’ on entrism that they could not break with it even when, from 1940 on, it was ludicrously inappropriate.
	www.marxists.org /archive/hallas/works/1986/03/tradition.htm (1324 words)

	What was the 4th International?
		In this way cadres were to be trained and educated, as the indispensable skeleton of the body of the new International.
		It was this period, taking into account the historical isolation of the movement from the mass organisations of the Social Democracy and Communist party, that the tactic of 'entrism' was evolved.
		Thus beginning with the ILP in Britain, the idea of entrism was worked out for the mass organisations of Social Democracy.
	www.newyouth.com /archives/theory/faq/fourth_international.asp (687 words)

	Socialist Appeal - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Grant had been the founder and a major leader of the Militant Tendency, the bulk of which is now the Socialist Party (in England and Wales) and the Scottish Socialist Party, but broke with them in the course of their 1992 expulsion from the Labour Party.
		The split was due to Grant's continued support for the tactic of entrism into the Labour Party, a policy abandoned by the others at the time of their expulsion.
		The Socialist Appeal group claims that unlike the Socialist Party, they focus on educating their members.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Appeal (314 words)

	Letters (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The classic form of entrism is that used by the French Trotskyists in the SFIO in the mid-’30s, which can best be described as a "raiding" tactic to win forces to a Trotskyist group so that it can become an independent party.
		This is a short-term perspective based on the emergence of a leftward moving rank and file inside the mass social democratic parties, which normally involves a centrist wing developing inside that party.
		Firstly, she boldly states that "supporters of entrism are now an isolated and irrelevant minority".
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Back/Wnext15/Letters.html (7486 words)

	Duncan Hallas: Revolutionaries and the Labour Party (2. The Trotskyists) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		It was an early example of one of the perils of entrism, the process of adaptation and accommodation to the host organisation.
		After the conference had rejected the scandalous pacifist quackery by a vote of 70 to 57, the tender pacifist Maxton put the revolver of an ultimatum at the breast of the conference and forced a new decision by a vote of 93 to 39...
		It is necessary to examine the concrete circumstances, both in terms of the class struggle generally and in terms of developments in the Labour Party.
	www.marxists.org /archive/hallas/works/1982/revlp/revlp2.htm (6894 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party: The Limits of Entrism
		The tactic of entrism, in the form of a long term orientation to the traditional mass workers’ party from within, no longer applied.
		In fact ‘Problems of Entrism’ was originally written in response to the ‘Club’ group of Trotskyists led by the late Gerry Healy leaving the Labour Party in 1959 to form the Socialist Labour League (the ‘SLL’, which later became the Workers’ Revolutionary Party until it disintegrated and collapsed in 1985).
		This is indeed the case recently in Brazil, where Socialismo Revolucionario, the Brazilian section of the CWI, played a significant role in helping to establish the "Party of Socialism and Liberty" (P-SOL) in Brasília on 5-6 June 2004, and is free to act as an open grouping within it.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/intro/7.htm (1856 words)

	Entry tactic in Britain 1940s
		This article on the tactic of "entryism" or “entrism”, looks at the role that the misapplication of this tactic played in the collapse of British Trotskyism in the 1940s and early 1950s.
		The "cold war" was a retrenchment of the spheres of influence agreed at Yalta and Potsdam with conflict only in the areas where no agreement existed.
		It was he said, entryism of a "different kind from the entrism practised before the war", one based on a desire "from the inside of these tendencies to amplify and accelerate their left centrist ripening".
	www.fifthinternational.org /LFIfiles/Britishentryism.html (5731 words)

	Marxism and the British Labour Party: The Labour Party
		The flexible, tactical approach demonstrated in the 1959 "Problems of Entrism" document referred to above had been abandoned for a rigid, dogmatic adherence to the tactic of "long-term work in the Labour party" irrespective of developments.
		After the Revolutionary Communist Party decided, in June 1949, to dissolve itself, practically all the Trotskyists in Britain were in the Labour Party.
		The ‘Open Turn’ debate of 1991 was a debate about ending this latter period of entrism.
	www.marxist.net /openturn/intro/5.htm (879 words)

	M-TH: Reply to Dave Cannon vs Morrow! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Bob caricatures Trotsky's tactic of entrism to mean "enter everything that moves to pressure it to the left".
		Trotskyist entrism is to enter those left moving worker organisations, even inside a popular front, in order to BREAK workers out of the popular front, and out of reformism.
		The Sparts line on Argentina which bob parrots, shows that they have not yet discovered, why should they, the roots of the collapse of Troskyism in Argentina in the face of Peronism.
	lists.econ.utah.edu /pipermail/marxism-thaxis/1998-May/009925.html (1604 words)

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