The ISA-R is a left opposition recently expelled from International Socialist Alternative.
They previously had nothing to do with the Spartacists, as their history rather goes back to the CWI and before that Militant.
It is therefore even more remarkable that they have reached a memorandum of a understanding with the ICL for joint work and are working towards a fusion, since they DO NOT share close historic proximity.
Simon, I find it very hard to accept that on two grounds. First, I describe them as a wing of Spartacism and politically that is the only meaningful way to describe them. I spent a day alongside the ISA-R (our literature tables were in the same part of the Sheffield connections conference). I heard nothing say they are separate from the ICL politically: not a scrap of ISA/CWI heritage. Second, look at Faction for Revolutionary Leadership documents and their political evolution. They have not converged with the ICL's positions since their expulsion. You would struggle to find a major difference between them even at that stage. The ICL ran a targeted public campaign at ISA ranks through 2024 (April, September, November). The FRL's first document appears one month after The Roots of the ISA Crisis, and the Spartacist-aligned fingerprints in document two include deploying Fraser and notions of "class line". The ISA EC itself made the Spartacist identification roughly six months before the expulsions.
The statement that the people who went into formations from the Socialist Alliance to "Your Party" were the vanguard (of class struggle? of the political independence of the working class?) does not appear to be supported.
They were a fraction of the broad vanguard, since it doesn't move as one. But, indeed, the 800,000 people who registered for Your Party were people who, by doing so, were much more likely than random others to have engaged in progressive struggles and want working class political independence. If you were looking to connect with people who wanted to organise now towards those goals, you would have found more of them at YourParty events than anywhere else.
Hi, there is a big factual blunder in your text:
The ISA-R is a left opposition recently expelled from International Socialist Alternative.
They previously had nothing to do with the Spartacists, as their history rather goes back to the CWI and before that Militant.
It is therefore even more remarkable that they have reached a memorandum of a understanding with the ICL for joint work and are working towards a fusion, since they DO NOT share close historic proximity.
Simon, I find it very hard to accept that on two grounds. First, I describe them as a wing of Spartacism and politically that is the only meaningful way to describe them. I spent a day alongside the ISA-R (our literature tables were in the same part of the Sheffield connections conference). I heard nothing say they are separate from the ICL politically: not a scrap of ISA/CWI heritage. Second, look at Faction for Revolutionary Leadership documents and their political evolution. They have not converged with the ICL's positions since their expulsion. You would struggle to find a major difference between them even at that stage. The ICL ran a targeted public campaign at ISA ranks through 2024 (April, September, November). The FRL's first document appears one month after The Roots of the ISA Crisis, and the Spartacist-aligned fingerprints in document two include deploying Fraser and notions of "class line". The ISA EC itself made the Spartacist identification roughly six months before the expulsions.
So what kind of "wing" is it then? A left "wing", a right "wing"?
A tiny wing. I say more at https://substack.com/profile/280750647-duncan-chapel/note/c-342227918?r=4n5gl3&utm_source=notes-share-action&utm_medium=web
The statement that the people who went into formations from the Socialist Alliance to "Your Party" were the vanguard (of class struggle? of the political independence of the working class?) does not appear to be supported.
They were a fraction of the broad vanguard, since it doesn't move as one. But, indeed, the 800,000 people who registered for Your Party were people who, by doing so, were much more likely than random others to have engaged in progressive struggles and want working class political independence. If you were looking to connect with people who wanted to organise now towards those goals, you would have found more of them at YourParty events than anywhere else.