Healy s Greek Expulsions
Socialist Press1976 1976-02-25Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 7 →
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crisis in the WRP and the collapse throughout the past 18 News has reached us of the expulsion, organised by Gerry Healy General Secretary of the Workers Revolutionary Party, of the majority of the Workers Internationalist League -Greek section of Healy's International Committee of the Fourth International. The expulsions include the WIL secretary Dimitris Toubanis and were carried out under conditions similar to the mass expulsions from the WRP in December 1974.
Socialist Press wil carry more details of this development in later editions when information of the political issues involved become available.
It is already clear that the expulsions are part of the break up crisis in the WRP and of Workers Press.
In our struggle in the WRP we as an opposition stressed consistently that the sectarian politics and maximum programme of Healy would not only liquidate the WRP itself but that threatened the very existence of the International Committee as an international movement.
SAME FORCES
We argued that the forces which had brought the crisis in the WRP to a head (the developments in the crisis of capitalism internationally coupled with the powerful forward movement of the working class on a world scale, which made possible the development of Trotskyist parties based deep in the working class) would affect every section of the IC. This crisis was intensified by the decline in the WRP in this obiectively favourable penod. throughout the past 18 month within the IC - involving th Workers League of the USA, th Socialist Labour League Australia and in the LCPR c The WIL is a section which ha grown rapidly since the ending c the dictatorship in 1974, and wa one of the strongest remainin sections of the IC.
The purge of the WIL majorit appears to have been carrie through in the style now identifie with Healy expulsions. Indeed th WIL newspaper Socialist Change which is clearly still in the hand of the Healyite minority, repor quite openly how Healy' supporters called in the polic against a meeting of the majorit tendency.
This, together with the not routine Healyite insinuations o "police agent' against those expelle is a remarkable parallel with Healy' use of the police against the WR
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XIALIST PRESS, Wednesday February 25th