For a Democratic Socialist Republic insue No. 7 Autum 2001 Brendan Catch up on the debate on the left of the irish republican movement. NEW issue of Fourthwrite, £1.30 inc p&p from Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU Tony Southall to the outside world. binge. surge then as class intellectuals".
World-wide there was a n the early 1960s there of the Fourth International, Trotskyist currents in Britain. The Militant groups proclaimed their alle• group ica oy ica giance: but neither was Grant was buried in the likely to be recognised as its Labour Party - in fact so British representatives deep it was scarecay VIsioIc Pat Jordan was at the centre of the eventually successBy contrast the Socialist ful attempt to reform the Labour League led by Gerry British section Heals which had lett the Based in Nottingham, a Labour Party in 1961 had weekly duplicated magazine The Week was caited ano printed at his tiny bookshop They proclaimed themand argely unancea Dy Bis selves the only true defend- skill in retailing second. crof the working-class and denounced mass organisa- A tiny number of older tions such as CND, which experienced its first big Gelderen, along with Ken "petit bourgeois" and "led by middle students from Nottingham University formed the embryo group, which would eventually evolve into the International Marxist It was recognised as British section of the Fourth International at the 1969 World Congress.
By that time the group had expanaca chormousi party Dy some of us moving around the country, but critguidance we had recognised the war in Vietnam, and around subport for the trec dom fighters there.
We were happy to combine our long-standing work in the Labour Party with building an open Solidarity I first met Pat and Ernest Mandel at the summer school organised by Neto Left Review in 1962. But my his dedication to getting out constant diet of boiled eggs! weekend until carly 1963. In his later vears Pat worked full time for the International Marxist Group and then for the Fourth helped in the work of the In 198> he was struck by a chronically disabling stroke, political involvement.
Kii ne chen e tenci. bered as a person who played & crucial role in tae 1960s revival of Trotskyism.
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