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Wohlforth and his supporters were themselves expelled in 1964, but they maintained connections with Gerry Healy and the rest of the ICFI, which they considered the legitimate Trotskyist movement.
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While Robertson left the SWP in 1962 and went on to form the Spartacist Group, later Spartacist League, Wohlforth and his supporters remained within the SWP and fought for the perspective of the International Committee of the Fourth International.
The initial YSA central leadership was comprised two rival groups: Wohlforth, Robertson, and Mage who had come over from the YSL, and SWP majority supporters represented by Nora Roberts, Bert Deck, and others.
Wohlforth and were
These were gathered around Tim Wohlforth and James Robertson in the Revolutionary Tendency.
With Wohlforth laying the evidentiary basis for claims of " party disloyalty " the RT leaders were expelled from the party, forming Spartacist.
The principal figures from the YSL were Tim Wohlforth, Shane Mage, and James Robertson, who joined with young members of the SWP ( hence the word " alliance ") to found the " Young Socialist " newspaper.
Wohlforth and expelled
Wohlforth now led a Reorganized Minority Tendency until it too was expelled from the SWP and went on to found the American Committee for the Fourth International.
In 1964, with Wohlforth laying the evidentiary basis for claims of " party disloyalty " against Robertson, the tendency was expelled from the party.
In the opinion of Robertson's group, Wohlforth conspired with the SWP leadership to get Robertson's group expelled.
Wohlforth and they
Wohlforth, Mage and Robertson launched the Young Socialist in October 1957 and founded the associated Young Socialist Clubs ; they joined the Trotskyist Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ).
Robertson, Mage and Wohlforth opposed what they considered to be an uncritical embrace of Fidel Castro by the SWP leadership, which declared Cuba to be a workers state on a par with the early USSR.
Wohlforth and connections
Fields and Wohlforth had denied that Fields had connections with state agencies.
Wohlforth and with
For six months, LaRouche worked with American Healyite leader Tim Wohlforth, who later wrote that LaRouche had a " gargantuan ego ," and " a marvelous ability to place any world happening in a larger context, which seemed to give the event additional meaning, but his thinking was schematic, lacking factual detail and depth.
In the middle of the 1970s, two leaders of the ICFI group in the United States, Workers ' League, developed political differences with the majority: Tim Wohlforth and Nancy Fields, his partner.
Intercontinental Press began a campaign denouncing the ICFI for the Wohlforth incident, with its editor Joseph Hansen writing that the concern over security indicated " paranoia " on the part of the IC's central leader, Gerry Healy.
Tim Wohlforth was a youth leader in that party and was opposed to the course of the organization, which was heading toward reunification with the International Secretariat of the Fourth International ( ISFI ).
Along with Tim Wohlforth and Shane Mage, he was a leader of the Left Wing Caucus which developed in the YSL in early 1957 in opposition to Shachtman's plan to liquidate the ISL into the Socialist Party-Social Democratic Federation.
According to Tim Wohlforth, during and after his break with Trotskyism, LaRouche's theory was influenced by what he called his " Theory of Hegemony " derived from Vladimir Lenin's view of the role of intellectuals in being a vanguard helping workers develop their consciousness and realize their leading role in society.
In late 1961 at the second YSA convention, held in Chicago, the SWP central leadership arranged the removal of Wohlforth and Robertson from the YSA on age grounds and replaced the initial majority group with Barry Sheppard and Peter Camejo from Boston, Sheppard as national chairman and Camejo as national secretary.
Wohlforth and Gerry
Under Robertson ’ s leadership, the majority of the RT came to the conclusion that the SWP leadership had become centrist, but Tim Wohlforth, at the behest of Gerry Healy, split the tendency, claiming the SWP leadership could be won back to authentic Trotskyism.
Wohlforth now claims that the Workers League became a cult, largely due to the domination and manipulations of the principal ICFI leader at the time, Gerry Healy.
Wohlforth and Healy
Wohlforth went on to lead Healy ’ s American organization ( until he was purged in 1974 ).
Wohlforth and ICFI
The Workers League Political Committee and ICFI criticized the fact that neither Fields nor Wohlforth had revealed this to the League.
Wohlforth and which
Later that year, Wohlforth and a minority of ISL members joined the Socialist Workers Party which was the main Trotskyist group in the US at the time.
Wohlforth and Trotskyist
Timothy Andrew Wohlforth ( born May 15, 1933 ), is a United States former Trotskyist leader.
Wohlforth and movement
* In Theory of International Politics, Waltz elaborates many of the core principles of neorealist international relations theory, adopting a structural perspective that sets him apart from earlier ( classical ) realists like E. H. Carr and Hans Morgenthau, and later giving rise to the Neoclassical realist movement ( Randall Schweller, Fareed Zakaria, William C. Wohlforth, Thomas J. Christensen, etc.
Wohlforth and .
The Government Department, whose prominent professors include Stephen Brooks, Richard Ned Lebow, and William Wohlforth, was ranked the top solely undergraduate political science program in the world by researchers at the London School of Economics in 2003.
* Whether soft balancing is occurring ( Wohlforth & Brooks vs Walt et al.
The most important faction opposing the SWP leadership's new line was the Revolutionary Tendency ( RT ) led by James Robertson and Tim Wohlforth that rejected the SWP's " capitulation " to Pabloism and opposed joining the USFI.
* Wohlforth, Tim, The Prophet's Children: Travels on the American Left.
* On the Edge: Political Cults Right and Left by Dennis Tourish, and Tim Wohlforth, 2000.
As Tim Wohlforth notes, Shachtman was already noted as a talented journalist and intellectual: The Militant listed Shachtman as its managing editor.
* The Struggle for Marxism in the United States: A History of American Trotskyism Tim Wohlforth Labor Publications, 1971.
However, Robertson's followers embarrassed Wohlforth and the SLL by suggesting that the SWP could not be saved.
Two groups from the US sent delegates: that of Tim Wohlforth and that of James Robertson.
It was brought to the attention of the Workers ' League's Central Committee that Fields ' uncle had worked for the CIA's computer division, and it criticized the fact that neither Fields nor Wohlforth had revealed that to the League.
In August 1974, the League's central committee suspended Fields from membership and removed Wohlforth as national secretary pending a commission of inquiry, in a unanimous vote that included Wohlforth's.
Wohlforth wrote an extended attack on the International Committee in Intercontinental Press.
* Trotskyism vs. Revisionism Volume 7: The Fourth International and the Renegade Wohlforth ( 1984 ), this volume contains documents from the political struggle waged within the Workers League against Tim Wohlforth, who deserted his post as national secretary in 1973.
Those within the U. S. Socialist Workers Party ( SWP ) who broadly shared this view formed a " Revolutionary Tendency " led by Tim Wohlforth and James Robertson in 1962.
supporters and were
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