THE EVENTS LEADING TO THE SPLIT in the International Communist League are a setback in the task of regroupment of the revolutionary left in Britain. When the ICL was formed in December 1975 from the fusion of Workers Power and Workers Fight, it was to be hoped that it would be a step owards further fusions to create a powerful Trotskyist organisation in Britain. Unfortunately, far from leading to a further process of fusions, the creation of the ICL led to a further split and to undemocratic suppression and slanders against the Workers Power group by the Workers Fight leadership of the ICL. It is important therefore that the revolutionary left draws the lessons of this experience and understands why the ICL failed to play a positive role in regroupment and instead split.
It was not lack of goodwill on the part of Workers Power that led to the failure of the regroupment into the ICL. These comrades had already stated in the first issue of their paper: •We shall fuse our organisation with any grouping sharing the same fundamental political principles.' [1) Red Weekly 2 WEEKLY