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Battle of Ideas (Red Weekly supplement) No. 1, October 1976 · p. 4 of the scan · 363 words

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ALTHOUGH FROM 1956-57 onwards the Healy curtent was clearly beginning to develop away from the strengths which had brought it its carly successes, was shortly after this that the massive desertion of dires which marked the first stage of the open generation of Healyism was to start. However, the ter sectarianism of later years did not commence ediately — that was to begin in the 1960's with the nal break with the SWP and the Fourth Incersationa. In particular the Healy current, which had rganised itself as the Socialist Labour League at hitsun 1959, oriented liself, after the crisis in the munist Party, to the rising campaign against dy in 1957 the Norwood resolution, to. the a Party Conference, which had been a key event nuater ine imitatoral darmamcat movement.

been moved by a Healy group member, V EDUCATION FOR SOCIALISTS THE RECORD OF HEALYS BREAK WITH TROTSKYISM BOATED WERE AN IN TRUESTION IT RAW HASH Available from Red Books, 182, Pentonville Road, Lon don,N1. Price £1.45 plus 35p postage Mendelson. Peter Fryor's Black the If Bomb Conterence to be opened to the representatives of all nations and for the extension of the Rapacki plan for a nuciear-free zone to the whole world. (27) All this was codified in the more or less correct analysis made at the 1960 SLL conference that: 1938 pamphlet Summit (28) INCORPORATING THE NEWSLETTER • WEDNESDAY NOVEMDER 14. 1973 • No 1129 against the war and their memhership of the CND is their first step ln this direction. The SLE must retain friendly relations with this stratum of the population." # was the last non-sectarian and correct campaign the Healy current was to participate in — the gains in the LPYS in 1962.64 were rapidly los in an orgy of sectarianism. Within three years the SLE had splic delinitively with the SWP and the internarional ties which had boon its moniastay. The next time st was tu encouriter a major political campaign, in the rise of the Vietnam Solidariry Campaign, everything which it had once learned in Soclaist Charlook, Labour Review and the crisis in the Communist Party, and the

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