Sclerosis of a Sect

Sclerosis of a Sect

Information comes second-hand, and it varies as to details. Fifty or more members of the Trotskyist Socialist Workers’ party have been expelled, most of them old-timers. Apparently there were many differences, but what seems to have precipitated the expulsions is not so much that the “expellees” wanted to hold to traditional Trotskyism but that they spoke about their differences outside such channels of High Office as the SWP National Committee. They apparently took their ca...


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