{"id":788,"date":"2025-11-18T11:20:35","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T11:20:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/?p=788"},"modified":"2025-11-20T13:19:00","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T13:19:00","slug":"the-open-turn-debate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/the-open-turn-debate\/","title":{"rendered":"The &#8216;Open Turn&#8217;, Debates in the CWI, 1991-92"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Contents<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(1) <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/introdoc-2\/\">Introduction<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(2)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/1-5\/\">Scotland, Perspectives and Tasks<\/a>, CWI Majority (xx xxx 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(3)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/2\/\">Majority and Minority Resolutions<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(4)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1991\/08\/16\/threat\/\">The New Turn \u2013 A Threat To Forty Years Work<\/a>, CWI Minority (16 August 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(5)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/bl\/\">A Note on Ted Grant\u2019s Explanation of Entrism in the 1940s<\/a>, Bob Labi, CWI International Secretariat (1 September 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(6)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/ta\/\">A Comment on Some Aspects of Entrism<\/a>, TA (10 September 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(7)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1991\/09\/12\/majoritydoc\/\">For The Scottish Turn: Against Dogmatic Methods In Thought And Action<\/a>, CWI Majority (12 September 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(8)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/aw\/\">Spanish Report <\/a>(9 March 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(9)<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/The New Turn \u2013 What Is the Alternative?\">The New Turn \u2013 What Is the Alternative?<\/a>, CWI Minority (10 October 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(10) <\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1991\/10\/01\/ilp\/\">Lessons of the Independent Labour Party<\/a>, William Potter, from The Marxist, No. 4 (October 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(11)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/ta2\/\">On the History of Entrism<\/a>, Tony Aitman, from The Marxist, No. 4 (October 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(12)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/youth\/\">A History of Our Youth Work<\/a>, from The Marxist, No. 4 (October 1991)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(13)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1992\/01\/24\/editorial\/\">A Parting of the Ways<\/a>, Militant editorial, (24 January 1992)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(14)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/twotrends\/\">Two Trends: The Political Roots Of The Breakaway<\/a>, excerpts, Peter Taaffe for CWI Majority (29 January 1992)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>(15)<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/cwi\/\">Thesis on the Former Workers\u2019 Parties and Our Tactics<\/a>, CWI Resolution (October 1998)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Appendix<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Entrism: Historic Documents<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/intro-3\/\">Problems of Entrism &#8211; 1973 Introduction<\/a>, Peter Taaffe (November 1973)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1959\/03\/01\/entrism\/\">Problems of Entrism<\/a> (March 1959)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/Introduction to Trotsky\u2019s Transitional programme\">Introduction to Trotsky&#8217;s Transitional Programme<\/a>, Peter Taaffe (October 1978)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">V.I. Lenin<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1920\/08\/01\/lenin\/\">Lenin\u2019s Speech On Affiliation To The British Labour Party<\/a>, V.I. Lenin (1920)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Leon Trotsky<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1933\/08\/28\/t1\/\">Whither The Independent Labour Party?<\/a>, Leon Trotsky (28 August 1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/1933\/09\/03\/t2\/\">How To Influence The Independent Labour Party<\/a>, Leon Trotsky (3 September 1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/t3\/\">Principled Considerations On Entry<\/a>, Leon Trotsky (16 September 1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/2025\/11\/18\/t4\/\">The Lever of a Small Group<\/a>, Leon Trotsky, (2 October 1933)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Contents (1) Introduction (2) Scotland, Perspectives and Tasks, CWI Majority (xx xxx 1991) (3) Majority and Minority Resolutions (4) The New Turn \u2013 A Threat To Forty Years Work, CWI Minority (16 August 1991) (5) A Note on Ted Grant\u2019s Explanation of Entrism in the 1940s, Bob Labi, CWI International Secretariat (1 September 1991) (6) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,70,61,62,63,78,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors-classical","category-cwi-authors-classical","category-cwi","category-cwi-minority-1991-92","category-debates-in-marxism","category-the-open-turn-debate","category-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=788"}],"version-history":[{"count":26,"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1128,"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/788\/revisions\/1128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/socialistworld.net\/theory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}