Extreme right expelled

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Two of Labour's most brazen cryptoTories have been expelled by the Kensington constituency Labour Party.

Stephen Haseler and Roger Fox of the extreme right wing Social Democratic Alliance were prominent in the campaign against the ousting of Reg Prentice as Labour candidate for Newham NE.

It has subsequently been revealed that funds to back Prentice's extensive legal appeals and wrangles were made available by the viciously anti-union National Association for Freedom (now entitled the "Freedom Association").

But of course well over. 100 Labour MPs also associated themselves with the defence of Prentice, who is now the Tory minister in charge of attacking benefits for the disabled.

The Social Democratic Alliance, however, overstepped the mark by publicly calling upon Labour voters not to support the Labour candidate for Liverpool and Bootle in the European elections.

And in the run-up to the General Election the SDA publicised a list of 59 supposed "Trotskyist" Labour Party candidates - including right wing stalwart Michael Foot!

It was on the basis of these two activities that Haseler and Fox were expelled.

But they did not work alone. There remain dozens of equally reactionary crypto-Tories in constituency Labour Parties up and down the country.

Many of them are right wing MPs, who will be assisting Tory MP John Corrie to ram through his vicious anti-abortion Bill in the New Year.

It is high time Labour's rank and file set to the task of clearing out all such inveterate enemies of the working class.

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USFI's adaptation today to the petty-bourgeois FSLN in Nicaragua flows from Final part The United Secretariat of the Fourth International (USFI) is undoubtedly the largest and most widely known of the currents that have emerged from the postwar crisis of the Trotskyist movement.

With thousands of members and sections or sympathising sections in dozens of countries, it is viewed by many militants as "the" Trotskyist Fourth The Workers Socialist League does not share this view. We see the USFI as a movement that has departed on numerous key questions from the positions and method put forward in the Transitional Programme on which the Fourth International was founded in 1938.

We know, of course, that the two other main groupings that lay claim to the title of "Fourth International" are both now substantially smaller than the USFI.

Both of them-the Healyite "International Committee"" (run by the British WRP) and the "'Organising Committee for the Reconstruction of the Fourth International" (run by the French OCI)-certainly hold political positions as bad or far worse than the USFI on many questions and are themselves (like the USFI) wracked by internal crisis.

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But the bankruptcy of their rivals is in our view no argument for recognising in the USFI the exclusive continuity of the Trotskyist movement