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John Sullivan on British Trotskyism

John Sullivan

Go Fourth and Multiply

First published in 1981 by Dialogue of the Deaf, Box 99, Full Marks Bookshop, 110 Cheltenham Road, Bristol 6.
From John Sullivan, Go Fourth and Multiply/When This Pub Closes, Socialist Platform, London 2004.
Marked up by Einde O’Callaghan for the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line (ETOL).
Many thanks to Paul Flewers for providing the text.

Part I: The Left

Militant
Grey Liberation

Socialist Workers Party
Pessimism of the Will

International Marxist Group
We Haven’t Crossed the Class Line,
Or Will the Real Fourth Internationalists
Please Stand Up!

Workers Revolutionary Party
The Theatre of the Absurd

Workers Socialist League (deceased)
The Revolt of the Spear-Carriers

Spartacist League
Big fleas have smaller fleas ...

Revolutionary Communist Group
The Agonies of Being English

Revolutionary Communist Party
Formerly the Revolutionary Communist Tendency

Revolutionary Workers Party (Posadas)

New Communist Party
If you enjoyed the 1950s, you’ll love the NCP

Communist Party of Britain (Marxist-Leninist)
Fight Where You Are!

Big Flame
The Thinking Man’s Maoists

Socialist Party of Great Britain
(founded 1904)

Part II: The Ex-Left

The Chartists
Cooling Out – Or Return Of The Prodigal

The ILP
(not the Independent Labour Party)

Conclusion – What Went Wrong?

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