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	Some Reflections on the Socialist Labour League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Socialist Labour League was founded in order to extend the work inside the Labour Party at a time when a more leftward development inside the trade unions and industry is gradually getting under way.
		That is why the National Assembly of Labour was even more successful than the National Industrial Rank and File Conference which marked a new stage which coincided with the development of the Socialist Labour League in drawing together the left wing from the unions and the Labour Party.
		The open work of the Socialist Labour League at this stage must therefore be subordinated and organized in such a way as to facilitate the growth of the Marxist movement inside the Labour Party and the trade unions.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Sll.html (2074 words)

	Socialist Equality Party : Manifesto of the Socialist Equality Party
		Labour's right wing evolution does not represent the failure of socialism, but arises from its historic rejection of a genuine socialist perspective.
		Labour's only association with any social gains were the reforms in health, education and welfare instituted after 1945.
		An entire generation of socialist workers and intellectuals, including leading figures in science, culture and the arts, were summarily executed or exiled to the labour camps.
	www.socialequality.org.uk /what-3.shtml (1083 words)

	Problems of Entrism
		In the light of recent events (’Newsletter’ Industrial Conference, formation of the Socialist Labour League), and because of the relative lull in the Labour Party at the present time, this seems to be a suitable time to re-examine some of our basic conceptions on the problems of work in Britain.
		Labour’s programme has something for everybody in it, and Gaitskell’s demagogic speeches on the television and in the country will have been noted by the rank and file.
		The Labour and TU bureaucrats under these circumstances would be compelled to swing Left, and swing the Party, at least in words, for a socialist struggle against the Tory Government.
	www.socialistappeal.org /archives/problems_of_entrism.html (5011 words)

	Obituary - Leonora Lloyd - "She grabbed life by the scruff of its neck" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		She joined the Labour League of Youth in 1954 at the age of 14 and the Socialist Labour League in the late 1950s.
		She was one of the founders of Socialist Woman, a magazine launched by the International Marxist Group in 1969 as the voice for a network of Socialist Women’s’ groups.
		Leonora’s first contributions to Socialist Woman were mainly on the question of women’s low and unequal pay, though she also wrote a number of reviews of books and films – such as the influential series of programmes on the history of the suffragettes, Shoulder to Shoulder.
	www.labournet.org.uk /so/52leonora.htm (1864 words)

	Workers' Revolutionary Party (UK) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		When the majority in the RCP rejected the policy in 1947, Healy's faction was granted the right to split from the RCP and work within the Labour Party as a separate body known internally as The Club.
		They were also very active in Labour Party youth organisation, the Young Socialists, and gained control until it was shut down in 1964.
		Leaving the Labour Party, the WRP claimed that it was necessary to unconditionally support nationalist groups in various Arabic countries, including Saddam Hussein and Colonel Gaddafi.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Socialist_Labour_League (1490 words)

	An Open Letter to Members of the Socialist Labour League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The ordinary members of the Socialist Labour League, who have joined because they want to build a revolutionary leadership as an alternative to Stalinist and social-democratic betrayals, should know how this clique operates, and how the general secretary maintains his control of it.
		There is scarcely a single leading member of the League whom the general secretary has not attacked in private conversation with me at some time or other, in terms such as these: "I have enough on P to get him sent down for seven years." "I don’t know what game P is playing.
		In the Socialist Labour League the national committee and the executive committee alike are appointed by the general secretary.
	www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Healy/Fryer.html (3344 words)

	TROTSKYITE SPY PETER RUSHTON
		In 1938 the Militant Labour League became the first official British section of Trotsky's Fourth International, and was renamed the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL).
		This faction, which later became the International Socialists, and later still the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), was most distinctive for its hardline condemnation of Soviet Communism as "state capitalism", and this analysis was the main reason for the split from Healy.
		Socialist Organiser's greatest success had been in student politics, through SSIN - Socialist Students in NOLS - NOLS being the right-wing dominated Labour Party student organization and SSIN being, for a while, the main left opposition.
	www.white-history.com /rushton/partthree.htm (1430 words)

	Michael Kidron (1930-2003)
		However small the socialist movement and however clogged its communications with the wider labour movement, it represents the possibility of an alternative form of society, an alternative social power.
		These two characteristics are alone, eloquent protest at the indignities heaped on socialist thought by the orthodoxies of Stalinism and Social Democracy; for this alone, given the miserable scale by which we measure such things today, the New Left is a potent force for good in British socialism.
		Whether it is measured in the shrinking individual membership of the Labour Party, or in the changing nature of the party as Gaitskell drags it towards Brandt's SDP, or in the utter confusion of the honest reformist left around Tribune, the symptoms of decline are all too apparent.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj99/birchall.htm (4251 words)

	Page Trotskyist History
		The RIL was formed in November 1984 as the British section of the ITC by a group of comrades all of whom had been members of the Workers Socialist League until their expulsion in May 1983 and of the Workers Internationalist League (WIL) until its splits in January 1984 and Summer 1984.
		The Workers Socialist League was formed in 1974 as a result of the expulsion by the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) of the Oxford based opposition led by Alan T., Tony R., and John L..
		The International Committee continued as a mere bloc of the SLL and the OCI: the mutual nonaggression pact between them was the basis for their split in 1971, after which the International Committee was merely the SLL/ WRP and its satellite clones.
	home.igc.org /~itobr/history/trothist1.html (11227 words)

	charlie van gelderen obituary
		International Socialist Group (Socialist Action's sister group in Britain) member and stalwart of the Fourth International, Charlie van Gelderen died peacefully at home in Cambridge on October 26 after a short illness at the age of 88.
		Charlie himself was told to go straight into the Labour Party and soon became very active in the East Islington branch of the Labour League of Youth, which was dominated by Trotskyists, speaking regularly at the weekly open air meetings they organised at Highbury Corner.
		Charlie was a member of the Revolutionary Socialist League (RSL) which worked in the Labour Party as Militant, while James had gone on to found his own organisation, which he represented at the Conference.
	www.geocities.com /youth4sa/charlie.html (1966 words)

	Socialist League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Socialist League published a manifesto written by William Morris and Ernest Belfort Bax that advocated revolutionary international socialism.
		However, William Morris was disappointed by the slow growth of the organisation.
		At that time, William Morris, having with a few others parted from the Socialist League - branches of which were springing up merrily all over the country.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /TUleague.htm (709 words)

	In the middle way
		He is, surely, broadly correct in his positive presentation of the 'socialist model of the mass party, campaigning openly for public support and parliamentary representation on a national scale, and organising its own affairs by the internal democracy of meetings, resolutions, agreed procedures, and elected committees'.
		Labour movements institutionalised precisely the systems of distinction that were least conducive to a genuinely inclusive and gender-blind working class political presence.
		As Eley records, for right wing socialist party leaders and union bureaucrats, the war brought a kind of 'socialism': they were courted and integrated into government, in return for their abandoning the practice of class opposition.
	pubs.socialistreviewindex.org.uk /isj101/barker.htm (18679 words)

	Red Biography: Gerry Healy
		In 1939, he joined the Trotskyist Workers International League (WIL) and was consequently expelled from the CPGB.
		His entryist tactics found a hearing in the leadership of the Fourth International, and in 1950 the FI ordered their Revolutionary Communist Party to dissolve into Healy's Club, forming the Socialist Labour League (SLL).
		In 1959, the SLL was expelled from the Labour Party.
	reds.linefeed.org /bios/healy.html (382 words)

	Program of the International - 1970
		For the Socialist Revolution, it requires above all, the conscious participation of the working class in the revolution, and after the revolution the conscious control and democratic participation of the workers in the running of industry and the state by the working class.
		Given that the Socialist Revolution did not extend to the advanced countries they were doomed as an interesting curiosity of social development, indicating the instinctive strivings of the agricultural semi-proletariat, as there had been many such movements at a time of mass awakening in many countries in the past.
		It is not for these elements to fight in a combat alone with the forces of the ruling class, of the army and the secret police, without reference to the real struggle for the overthrow of the corrupt cliques of the oligarchy and of the police.
	www.socialistappeal.org /faq/program_of_the_international.html (19834 words)

	Socialist Standard September 2006 page12
		Along with his two main Trotskyist rivals, Gerry Healy (of the Socialist Labour League/Workers' Revolutionary Party) and Tony Cliff (of International Socialism/the Socialist Workers' Party) he had a considerable input into what became - with the decline of the Communist Party - the most significant political trend to the left of the Labour Party.
		Of the two small British Trotskyist groupings of the time, the Balham Group and the Revolutionary Socialist League (later to be called the Militant Labour League, selling a newspaper called Militant), Grant and his colleagues were attracted towards the latter.
		Indeed, the Grant and Healy factions had much in common politically, and it was mainly the bitter personal hostility that developed between the two men that kept their groupings separate.
	www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/sep06/page12.html (764 words)

	Aboriginal socialist dies in Brisbane, Australia, aged 54
		Yabu Bilyana, a member of the Socialist Equality Party of Australia, and the first Australian Aborigine to join the International Committee of the Fourth International, died on Monday, April 5 at a hospital in Brisbane, almost exactly two years after a severe stroke which left him permanently disabled.
		When he joined the Socialist Labour League (forerunner of the SEP) in 1990, he was a well-known Aboriginal activist and cultural leader.
		Addressed by David North, national secretary of the SEP in the United States (then the Workers League), the meeting had been called to defend the workers and students involved in the explosive confrontation that had erupted with the Chinese bureaucracy, soon to be drowned in blood in the Tiananmen Square massacre.
	www.wsws.org /articles/1999/apr1999/obit-a07.shtml (1386 words)

	Weekly Worker 499 Thursday October 9 2003
		Originally from Scotland, John had been active on the left for decades, at various times in the Socialist Labour League, in the libertarian-socialist grouping Solidarity, from which he led a small grouping into the International Socialists in the late 1960s and later its trade-union-centred split, the Workers League.
		Latterly he was a non-aligned socialist active within the broad milieu of the Labour left.
		He was the author of a number of studies of key aspects of socialist politics in the Hispanic-dominated section of the world, including Spanish-speaking Latin America, and the national question, particularly regarding the Basque country.
	www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/499/sullivan.html (351 words)

	Anarchist Communism in Britain
		Charles Mowbray, a tailor from Durham, active in the London Socialist League, was one of the first to specifically call himself an Anarchist Communist.
		Regrettably, whist Socialist League branches distributed Freedom around the country there was a certain antipathy between the Leaguers and the Freedomites.
		Alongside this was the heritage of Morris and Co within the broad socialist movement, which was asserting itself within the Socialist Labour Party, the British Socialist Party, (the successor of the SDF) and the Independent Labour Party.
	flag.blackened.net /af/org/issue42/acbrit.html (6732 words)

	Socialist Equality Party raises its U.S. profile (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		During the 1970s and ’80s the Workers League, as the SEP was then known, focused exclusively on building a labor party in the U.S., and disdained the civil rights, feminist and lesbian/gay movements.
		Hansen was a respected leader in the Socialist Workers Party (SWP), the first Trotskyist party in the U.S. The Workers League also financed a decade-long court battle in which former SWP member Alan Gelfand asked a judge to "fire" one whole committee of national SWP leaders, claiming they were FBI or Kremlin agents.
		This nasty attempt by the League to use the courts to destroy a radical organization was dismissed as groundless in 1989.
	www.socialism.com /fsarticles/vol25no3/party.html (1043 words)

	Trotskyism in May 1945: Down with the Churchill Coalition! Labour to Power on a Socialist Programme!
		Unlike today’s “revolutionary” grouplets that water down their programme in the most opportunist and reformist fashion, the RCP was not out to win cheap votes, but to raise the fundamental tasks of the working class in the clearest, sharpest and most principled way.
		The Revolutionary Communist Party was formed from the unification of two Trotskyist groups, the remnants of the ineffective Revolutionary Socialist League (the official section of the 4th International) and the much larger and successful Workers’ International League, which had developed a significant industrial base.
		But with Labour in a Coalition with Churchill and the “Communist” Party loyal to the Coalition, this alienated many advanced workers, a layer of whom could be attracted to a revolutionary alternative.
	www.socialist.net /content/view/877/27 (3337 words)

	Obituary: Alan Clinton 1944-2005 - LSHG Message Board
		New Labour has attracted a number of top rank labour historians including Patricia Hollis and David Clark, but Alan Clinton, who has died at the far too young age of 61 is surely a special case.
		Nevertheless the reality is that, despite being leader of Islington Council in the early New Labour period, he never gave up being a labour historian with a clear focus on industrial relations.
		Politically Alan Clinton was associated with Alan Thornett's Workers Socialist League, but from 1982 he started the journey to become leader of Islington Council.
	www.londonsocialisthistorians.org /messageboard/showthread.php?p=465 (747 words)

	What is Revolutionary Leadership? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		There are many Socialists who are naturally repelled by the bureaucratic distortion of Soviet society and of the Stalinist Parties, as well as by the shameful record of Social-Democracy, and yet fail to escape from the distorted theory and method of Stalinism.
		In the Socialist Labour League recently, a small minority developed the idea that as the Labour Party was drifting rapidly to the Right, the only way for the Marxists to preserve their integrity was to set up a party quite independent in every way from the Labour Party.
		The majority of labour's own organizations have become tied to this structure of established institutions, and are staffed by the 'labour lieutenants of capitalism'.
	www.bolshevik.org /history/revleadership.htm (8030 words)

	1956 year of revolt and revolution\|7Jan06\|Socialist Worker (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		While both sides flung the word “democracy” around in an increasingly meaningless manner, it was generally acknowledged by friend and foe that the Russian bloc was “socialist” because it had a centrally directed economy.
		The Labour Party, more loyal to the US alliance than the Tories, opposed military action, holding large meetings under the slogan “law not war”.
		But Labour and the TUC made it quite clear that protest would remain limited to mere protest, and hence to ineffectiveness.
	www.socialistworker.co.uk /article.php?article_id=8023 (2286 words)

	Church Socialist League (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Church Socialist League was founded in 1906 following an address by the Labour MP Keir Hardie at Mirfield, with the initial aim of furthering the socialism of the Independent Labour Party and Social Democratic Federation within the Church.
		Socialism is the fixed principle, according to which the community should own the land and capital collectively, and use them co-operatively for the good of all.
		The League must have funds; therefore members of branches should send to their branch Secretaries a really liberal Subscription according to their ability (of which at least I/- is forwarded to Central), and unattached members should support the Central to the very utmost of their power.
	www.anglocatholicsocialism.org /churchsocialist.html (459 words)

	Trotskyist History No 1
		It was an early example of Trotskyites attempting to create themselves as a centrist current in the Labour Party when one does not exist and adapting to the bureaucratic leaders of left reformist currents when these emerge.” The principal vehicle for The Club’s politics was the journal Socialist Outlook.
		The “Labour government with socialist policies” approach has little in common with the demand for a workers’ government in the Transitional Programme, because it implies the possibility of a Labour government of the left bringing in socialism - with the further implication that this can be, at least in part, a legislative process.
		There is in the ambiguity of this second quotation at least the possible interpretation that such a left Labour government is a necessary stage in winning the fight for leadership with the left reformists.
	ito.gn.apc.org /TrotHist1.htm (11492 words)

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