The Trotskyist Tendency 1968-71
The Trotskyist Tendency came from Workers' Fight, forerunner of AWL, a small group perhaps ten strong when it merged with IS in December 1968. We merged on the basis that we could continue to argue inside the group for what we considered to be authentic Trotskyism while cooperating in practical work. We entered as an ideological tendency, not a faction. Our distinctiveness was in our general political approach and tradition, not in this or that conflict with the leadership on immediate questions. We remained a tendency all the way through, even though at the end we were forced formally to...