Gay Rights Now

Scan page 9

The first WSL document attempting to draw an objective balance sheet of the post-war history of the Trotskyist International, and analyse the roots of its current crisis. Adopted by the Founding Based on a lecture by John Lister to the WSL 1977 Summer School, this article attempts to examine in more detail the departure from the Marxist method carried out by Michel Pablo and the majority of the International Secretariat of the Fl in the period following the Yugoslavian 'break' with Stalin in 1948. The article shows the methodological connection between the positions which led to the 1953 split in the International, and those which opened the door for the opportunist The document drafted by the Workers Socialist League for submission to the pre-conference discussion of the USFI Xith World Congress - exposing the political bankruptcy and opportunism of both of the previous main factions within the USFI. Pointing out that the common factor of each of the self-styled 'Fourth Internationals' is their departure from the method and principles on which the FI was founded, this article calls for serious steps towards the reconstruction Published in Trotskyism Today No 3, July 1978. Price 60p plus 15p p&p.

31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 "normal" people supposedly well-balanced.

Soaring rape statistics scarcely help this absurd argument, which feeds largely on ignorance about homosexuality-an ignorance which the CHE "kit" for schools is designed to combat.

Terry Casey, however, has shown that he is an unacceptable risk for those teachers whom hi claims to represent.

The press attempts to use the Thorpe case to spearhead fresh attacks on gays, coupled with the intensive barrage of propaganda by both Labour and Tory leaders in extolling the virtues of the bourgeois family unit suggest that Casey's outburst is likely to be only the first of a succession of similar attacks by Militant/Lou Howort right wing trade union leaders.

His sinister attack shows the need to fight in the trade unions, especially the teachers' unions, for the rights of all workers and youth to determine their own sexual orientation without fear of any form of discrimination.

International: Problems and Conference of the WSL, in late 1975. Published as three supplements to Soc¡alist Press. Price 15p plus 10p p&P;

Aspects of the History of the FI: Published in Trotskyism Today No march 1978. Price 50p plus 15p p&p.

All available from the WSL, Dartmouth Park Hill, London

----- pull-quotes -----

Writings on the Fourth