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Author:\u00a0<\/strong>Peter Taaffe<\/p>\n

Published:<\/strong> November 2002<\/p>\n

Pages:<\/strong> 32<\/p>\n

Format:<\/strong> pamphlet<\/p>\n

This is a reply to Rob Sewell’s Postscript to Ted Grant’s History of British Trotskyism.\u00a0Ted Grant was a longstanding Trotskyist who was part of the leadership of the Committee for a Workers International (CWI) until he left with Rob Sewell and Alan Woods in 1991. This was after they and a small number of others were decisively defeated in the political discussions within the ranks of Militant and the CWI over the period of a year. They received seven per cent of the vote at a special conference of Militant convened to discuss the outstanding political differences between the two trends, the majority in Britain and the CWI, and the Grant-Woods-Sewell minority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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