[Book] Ted Grant Writings: Volume One Index [Book] Ted Grant Writings: Volume One Preface Introduction Introduction to 'Pre-war period' Lessons of Spain Contribution by WIL to the discussion on the tasks of Bolshevik-Leninists in Britain Statement of WIL to the international congress of the Fourth International Against 'national defence' The robbers quarrel over Tientsin Workers want peace - bosses prepare for war! Down with the war! Introduction to 'Imperialist slaughter' Our war is the class war Not for imperialist slaughter How to win the class war No peace without socialism The workers' war is the class war! Workers must be armed against capitalism Introduction to 'The internal debate of WIL on revolutionary military policy' Arm the workers! Invasion: arm the workers! The interpretation of the EC majority A step towards capitulation Military policy - or confusion Introduction to 'A turning point: the attack on the USSR' Defend the Soviet Union - Fascism can only be defeated by international socialism An analysis of the social basis of the Soviet Union - and why we defend it Daily Herald - A public statement, not a private admission The next steps forward - Towards the rank and file of the Communist Party Why USSR is suffering reverses - Internationalism has been abandoned Statement on policy and perspectives A challenge to the Communist Party ILP and the Stalinist slander Stalin threatens new turn An open letter to ILP national conference Labour leaders hold workers back British refuse arms to Indians The road to India's freedom Labour lefts rehearsed debate with Tories! An open letter to the Yorkshire Miners' Association Right wing Tories fear our programme New allies of Communist Party The ILP - A ship without a compass Wainwright and Doriot: birds of a feather Open letter to Yorkshire miners Wainwright blunders again on the Chinese revolution Introduction to 'WIL's pre-conference documents and updates' Preparing for power Resolution on military policy WIL pre-conference appeal to the International Secretariat of the Fourth International Constitution of WIL (1942) Report of pre-conference, August 1942 Perspectives and tasks Report on ILP work to the International Secretariat Clear out Hitler's agents! Factory workers: be on your guard Thesis of Indian Fourth Internationalists All Pages Publications World War II Fourth International & Trotskyism World War II Page 47 of 575. WIL’s pre-conference documents and updates [August and December 1942]IntroductionThe tumultuous growth of the WIL is reflected in the works of its first national conference of August 1942 (which was curiously denominated “pre-conference”). The group that before the war organised around 30 members had developed as a national organisation with more than 300 members. The WIL, unlike most of the groups that gathered around the Left Opposition and the Fourth International, was mainly proletarian in composition, organising a large majority of young workers. The scope and quality of the publications reflected this numerical and qualitative growth.The conference political document Preparing for power, drafted by Ted Grant, reflect the confidence of the whole organisation in the revolutionary future.The strengthening of the WIL also posed in different terms the future of the forces of Trotskyism in Britain, as the organisation became a powerful pole of attraction for all the best elements in the many groups that split in the permanent crisis of the official section of the Fourth International, the Revolutionary Socialist League.After being rejected as the official section of the Fourth International in 1938, thanks to the manoeuvres of Cannon, the WIL grew steadily while the RSL splintered. In August 1942 already the WIL had emerged as the principal force of British Trotskyism. The conference voted a resolution that we reproduce in this section to appeal to the IS to step back on the previous decision and accept the WIL as an official section.The last document is a draft update on perspectives written by Ted Grant after the conference. This is an important document showing the development of the position of the WIL with the approach of the second half of the war. Prev Next