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duck a Despite a frenzied witchhunt by the Daily Mail a week prior to its opening, the summer school of the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee proved a great success.

Nearly 200' members and sympathisers of the Workers Socialist League and other TILC sections attended, along with observers from Workers Power (Britain), the IKL (Austria), the RWG (USA) and the Fourth' Internationalist Tendency (FIT):

On Wednesday July 23 many of those attending the school came to the rally in London called by the TILC on the theme of the fight to reconstruct the Fourth International.

To develop the debate on this question, speakers were invited from Workers Power, the International Communist League, the International Marxist Group (British section of the USFI) and the Socialist Labour Group (British section of the Parity Commission), and the FIT.

epate The IMG, for undisclosed reasons, failed to send a speaker. The SLG, after initially accepting the invitation to speak, withdrew at the last moment, stating that they would not speak from the same platform as the FIT.

The SLG's turn-about is the more conspicuous in view of the fact that the Parity Commission is still formally pledged to convene an open conference of Trotskyists on the reconstruction of the Fourth InternationIt is obvious from their reluctance to argue their positions publicly in a 240strong rally that neither the USFI leaders nor the leaders of the Parity Commission wish to discuss the evident crisis that continues to split and confuse the world Trotskyist movement.

We invite the membership of these organisations to challenge this sectarian position and wage the necessary fight for a thorough and open discussion on the problems and tasks facing Trotskyists in the class struggle of the 1980s.