Re: Mapping the 'far left'

["Tom O'Lincoln" <suarsos@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

The WSWS is produced by a current once called "Healeyites" after their leader,
British Trotskyist Gerry Healey. This was an arch-sectarian outfit. It once
had a certain presence in many countries, but in the mid-80s the leading 
organisation
(the Workers'Revolutionary Party, located in Britain) dumped Healey as part
of a more or less terminal crisis. Leadership then passed to the American 
section.


They don't seem to have many troops on the ground, but their website is 
sometimes
quite useful. They seem to have decided on using the internet more strategically
than other left currents do.

I met one of their young supporters on the WTO demo in Sydney last month, and
while he was quite dogmatic he was also quite pleasant -- unlike the old days
when they could be fairly aggressive and intimidating.

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