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International Committee of the Fourth International, 1986
The ICFI defends Trotskyism

In 1985, after a protracted process of political degeneration, the Workers Revolutionary Party, the former British section of the ICFI, broke decisively from Trotskyism.

This document—first published in Autumn 1986 as Volume 13, No. 2 of the ICFI’s quarterly journal, Fourth International—is composed of original documents from the struggle by the ICFI from 1982 to defend Trotskyist principles and oppose the betrayal of Trotskyism by the WRP.

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  1. Editorial
  2. A Contribution to a Critique of G. Healy’s “Studies in Dialectical Materialism”
  3. Letter from Cliff Slaughter to David North
  4. Letter from David North to Cliff Slaughter
  5. Letter from David North to Mike Banda
  6. Political Report by David North to the International Committee of the Fourth International
  7. Letter from Aileen Jennings to the Workers Revolutionary Party Political Committee
  8. Letter from Cliff Slaughter to Sections of the ICFI
  9. Joint Communique from the Greek and Spanish Sections of the ICFI
  10. Resolution of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the Crisis of the British Section
  11. Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the Expulsion of G. Healy
  12. Special Congress Resolution of the Workers Revolutionary Party (Healyite)
  13. Split Exposes Right-Wing Conspiracy Against Party
  14. “Morality and the Revolutionary Party”
  15. Letter from the International Committee to the Central Committee of the Workers Internationalist League, Greek Section of the ICFI
  16. Letter from the Workers League Central Committee to the Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee
  17. Letter from Cliff Slaughter to David North
  18. “Revolutionary Morality and the Split in the WRP”: News Line report
  19. Letter from Peter Schwarz to the Central Committee of the Workers Revolutionary Party
  20. “Nothing to hide...or fear”
  21. Letter from the Workers League Political Committee to the Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee
  22. Resolution of the International Committee of the Fourth International on the Suspension of the Workers Revolutionary Party
  23. Statement of the International Committee of the Fourth International
  24. Resolution of the Workers League Central Committee
  25. Letter from David North to the Glasgow North-East Branch of the WRP
  26. Letter from the ICFI to the Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee
  27. Resolution of the Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee
  28. Document of the Workers Revolutionary Party 8th National Congress
  29. Letter from Tony Banda to the Workers League Central Committee
  30. Resolution 1 of the WRP Central Committee
  31. Resolution 2 of the WRP Central Committee
  32. A Letter to All Sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International and to the Members of the Workers Revolutionary Party
  33. Letter from Cliff Slaughter to Peter Schwarz
  34. Resolution of the Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League (Australia)
  35. League of Socialist Workers (BSA) Affirms Principles of Trotskyism
  36. In Defense of Security and the Fourth International
  37. Statement of the National Committee of the Young Socialists (Britain)
  38. For a Public Discussion on Healy’s IC
  39. Resolutions of the 8th Congress of the Workers Revolutionary Party (Internationalist)
  40. Resolution of the 8th Congress of the Workers Revolutionary Party (Slaughter-Banda)
  41. British Trotskyists Defend Internationalism, Reject Banda-Slaughter Splitters
  42. Behind the Split in the Workers Revolutionary Party
  43. Statement of the National Committee of the Young Socialists (Britain)
  44. Dissolve the International Committee
  45. Anti-Trotskyists Split from SLL
  46. Michael Banda, A Renegade from Trotskyism
  47. Michael Banda: A Political Obituary
  48. The Case Against the SWP—What the Facts Show
  49. Resolution of the Central Committee of the Revolutionary Communist League (Sri Lanka) on the Resolution of the Central Committee of the Liga Comunista
  50. Liga Comunista (Peru) Breaks with Trotskyism