miners' support groups, international solidarity work, campaigns for women's rights — and a turn towards trade union work. It means develop- ing a dialogue with Labour activists, raising all the issues of Kinnock's politics, the fight against the witch hunt, and the sup- In this reassessment, to return to problem is not so much to brush the dust off the "treasures" from the past, but to recognise the treasures among the debris, and to have the patience to sift throught the jumble rather than angrily hurl the whole lot into the
essential in doing this that WRP members do not restrict the discussion to their own relatively narrow IC tradition, but recognise that the crisis is one of the whole post-war Trotskyist movement, in which the problems, failures and strengths have
Othe preserve of any one
At the Conway Hall meeting, WRP speaker Chris Bailey insisted correctly that "the IC is not the sole continuator of Trotskyism". And Clif Slaughter went further and suggested
form international ference with a view to Trotskyist
Clearly the disadvantage of such a conference would be that it would be very likely to attract a horde of sectarians not interested in development (since they believe they already have all the answers) hoping simply to score a few cheap points and rip off a couple of extra
The most essential progress to be made is on the political front, with a Transitional Programme to meet the needs of the 1980s and 1990s.
Only when clear progress is made on this could organisational itiatives such as conferences produce a clarification of the movement rather than a well-intentioned but chaotic bear-garden for cynics, sceptics and
The encouraging aspect of the WRP evolution is that it continues to break from the hidebound sectarian lines of the past: but six months after the expulsion of Healy it is now clearly time to go beyond generalities and begin to sketch out a perspective and a programme that will lay the ghost of Healyism by rooting the organisation firmly in the British and international workers' movement.
Workers who were "Willing to storm
heaven" IN this article I want to outline two things. firstly the history and actions of the two brief months of the