Workers' International League (1985)
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The Workers' International League (WIL) was a British
The League soon started to publish Workers' News as its monthly publication. Initially, the group around leading WRP adherents Richard Price and Ian Harrison defended the
Due to a physical altercation between a leading member of the WIL, then in Torrance's WRP, with a leading member of the Workers Press faction of the WRP during the 1986 printers' dispute in Wapping, east London, there was great hostility between the two groups, which did not help in its fledgling steps into the wider labour movement.[citation needed] Even so, two years after its formation, the WIL had recruited Bob Pitt, who was originally a supporter of the Workers Press faction of the WRP.[citation needed]
The League also began to have discussions with other small groups, particularly
In March 1991, the WIL fused with the Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency of Belgium and Germany and a group of South African Trotskyists to form the Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency (LTT).[1]
After an acrimonious split in 1997, the majority of the WIL evolved into a group around the magazine Workers Action, which was produced quarterly until 2004 and bi-annually until its thirtieth and last edition in August 2006.[2]
References
- ^ "Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency". Marxists.org. Retrieved 2013-01-18.
- ^ "Workers Action". 2005-09-21. Archived from the original on December 29, 2005. Retrieved 2013-01-18.