The WRP has ansounced cells for 20/22 that it will field 60 candidates in hours a das. None of them has - the Lieneral Election released ar to the left of the Labour Party which will get television time.
Bat this great opportunity will nor be used to build important movements like the Anli Nazi League Гле WRP, although in claims lo he "Trotskyist". in practice absains trom the anti-cacist and anti-fascist movements li is not alone in this.
pronoonced Leedi. Popular Front sandlarly STETISCE ansthing to do with it WRP. as usual, adds a Felle spice to this political position by slandering the ANL.
PROOF "The sectarian lives by ready made formulas', wrote ago. The WKP Is roday Eving proot of that fact. tor them only two types of alliance exist the United Front forme- is only made ep of gadl Pickers Hure prison 10T3 Officer Tottenhum Party who reject involvement in workers thas TACTICS WRP history and have The Fronts workere programune Leon Bolshevant...is mises with other bougeois that:
its structures.
organisations. the latter inclades other forces. The first is acceptable, the second raise. general level light and win categories like Holy Writ from and Troisky and some of the the the movemert. Thus they accused DIVIDE Solidarily Campaign in the late 1960 of being a Popular Front Hat the classical Popular were above al programmatic agreements be- have ween workers and bourgeois partici, on the basis of the abandoning their No Markist would role pet anty joint action with hourgeois forces without looking at the ahcad of ihese people concrete circumstances. Lenin said chat "the whole history of 01InMances of manoeuvring, makig agreements and compro- the iberals parties included.
W-hat Lenin and Troisky | League broke with the WRP was progranumatic unity. any idea parties could jointly rule The essence of united front taclics explained Leau when he wrote that the whole poin: lies in knowing how ta apply these tactics in order to and nat lower, uf proletarian class consciouscess -revolutspiril. and ability te The 100,000 mobilised by the these VSC in October 1968, or the 80,000 mebilised by the ANL in April 1978, hardly demoralised working classt In the debrale on "black self defence, some groups such as the Workers Socialist lengue counterpescd "workers self defence", going on to argue that black self-organisation are teactionary and divide the The WRP. however. is way They began antacking black 1tt01aHs0l 12 3C01S 330 03.L0 American ghenroes erupted, echoune the outrased cries of about The Workers movements. The WSL. unlike of the WRF, have mobilised for anti-racist actjons such as Brick Lane Bur their political position towards the ANL, minus the slanders is identical 10 the WRP's Their politicul position ofcounterposing workers self detence to "alack sell defense Jeads in the sarne direction as the WRP's attacks on black nalionalism SCHOOL Thus while they have broken Trom the excesics of the Healy schoel of falsification and abstention, many of the political concepts wich Jed the WRP down the pail to degeneratior The lace. James P Cannon, the veteran LIS Trotskyist, once remark ed that he would like his pstaph to be. Don't sand or the bank and teil me lion n win' He Trotsky's deserintion of sectarian as one who is ou the shore and reads lectures morality to the food of the class truegle"
The WRP. and far too many biber groups, fit chis descriptian perfectiy. To all or chem we can only sas: Come on in the water's fine!
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left-wing groups towards the anti-racist movement by looking at those such as the Workers Revolutionary