Workers Socialist League

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Socialist Press no. 235, 18 February 1981 · scan p. 7 · about 184 words

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on Camden demonstration last w sise all along that we should anticipate a move to the right by the WRI leadership as being in the logic of the method which led them to their previous positions, both being expressions of an idealist method of thought which begins not from the reality of the materlai world but from fixed, schematic concepts in the minds of a handful of dogmatists.

Unable to grapple with the changing balance of class forces, they • have continued to chant the litany of "Revolutionary Party" and "Daily Paper" whilst plunging deeper into the morass in which they now find themselves.

Many of us who entered revolutionary politics in the 1960s joined the Socialist Labour League (predecessor of the WRP), thus coming to know and respect comrades whom we now see publicly defending Labour councillors when they sell off council houses and put up, rates. ' We are confident that these sentiments are in conflict with their basic class instincts.

We say to them-break with the Healy clique before you further disgrace yourselves in the eyes of the working class!

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 235, 18 February 1981