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were passed. Because these motions included a clear call for the Fourth International, many members of the Group were expelled from the ILP, including James. James then convinced the remainder of his organisation to exit the ILP.
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to form a secretive "Bolshevik-Leninist Fraction" in the ILP. This difference in orientation essentially split the party, and in November 1934, sixty Trotskyist ILPers officially formed the Marxist Group.
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The majority of the Communist League argued against joining the ILP in favour of maintaining an open party, but allowed thirty of its members led by
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While, perhaps due to this delay and infighting, the Group never achieved the influence hoped for by Trotsky, it did win new members, including
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Encyclopedia of British and Irish Political Organizations: Parties, Groups and Movements of the 20th Century.
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The Marxist Group soon realised that the ILP did not have mass influence outside
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International Trotskyism, 1929-1985: A Documented Analysis of the Movement.
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Outside the ILP, the Group began working again with the
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Defunct Trotskyist organisations in the United Kingdom
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around a militant programme, including a call for a
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Index

Leader
Denzil Dean Harber
C. L. R. James
Communist League
Revolutionary Socialist League
Glasgow
Ideology
Trotskyism
Political position
Far-left
Independent Labour Party
Politics of the United Kingdom
Political parties
Elections
Trotskyist
United Kingdom
Communist League
Leon Trotsky
enter
Independent Labour Party
Labour Party
Bolshevik
Denzil Dean Harber
C. L. R. James
World Revolution
Ted Grant
South Africa
Revolutionary Policy Committee
Communist Party of Great Britain
Labour Party

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