Gerry Healy (December 3, 1913 - December 14, 1989) was a Trotskyist activist. Born in Cork, Ireland in 1913, he emigrated to England and worked as a ship radio operator at the age of 14. He soon joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, but then left to join the Trotskyist Militant Group in 1937. He then left to become one of the founders of the Workers International League, led by Jock Haston and Ralph Lee. December 3 is the 337th (in leap years the 338th) day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1989 (MCMLXXXIX) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Trotskyism is the theory of Marxism as advocated by Leon Trotsky. ... Activism, in a general sense, can be described as involvement in action to bring about change, be it social, political, environmental, or other change. ... Cork (Corcaigh in Irish) is the second city of the Republic of Ireland. ... 1913 is a common year starting on Wednesday. ... Royal motto (French): Dieu et mon droit (Translated: God and my right) Englands location within the UK Official language English de facto Capital London de facto Largest city London Area - Total Ranked 1st UK 130,395 km² Population - Total (mid-2004) - Density Ranked 1st UK 50. ... The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. ... 1937 was a common year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... The Workers International League was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Jock Haston (1913-1986) was a Trotskyist politician and General Secretary of the Revolutionary Communist Party in Britain. ...

Healy's period in the WIL was difficult and he threatened to resign several times and was actually expelled and readmitted. He was in the group when it came to form the Revolutionary Communist Party, but grew closer to the leadership of the Fourth International, effectively the leadership of the American Socialist Workers Party and their representative in Britain, Sam Gordon. They encouraged Healy to form a faction, and to take that group into the Labour Party. In 1950, he was rewarded as the RCP voted to dissolve itself into his faction, which became known as The Club. The Revolutionary Communist Party was a British Trotskyist political party, formed in 1944 and active until 1949, and publishing the Socialist Appeal fortnightly newspaper, a theoretical journal Workers International News and an entrist paper for its Labour Party fraction The Militant. ... The Fourth International has been the international organisation of Trotskyist communists. ... The Socialist Workers Party is a small communist political party in the United States. ... A political faction is a grouping of individuals within a political organisation, such as a political party, a trade union, or other group with some kind of political purpose (referred to in this article as the “broader organisation”). It may also be referred to as a power bloc, or a... The Labour Party is the principal centre-left political party in the United Kingdom (see British politics). ... 1950 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ...

In 1953, Healy joined the split in the Fourth International instigated by James P. Cannon and was soon nominal leader of the International Committee of the Fourth International. The Club recruited a substantial number of former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain after they became disillusioned with Stalinism after the two shocks of the Twentieth Congress of the Russian Communist Party which brought Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin and the crushing of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution of that year. This qualitatively changed the ability of Healy's group to carry out activity and they launched The Newsletter as a regular weekly paper in 1958. He reconstituted The Club as the Socialist Labour League in 1959, and then in 1973 as the Workers Revolutionary Party. 1953 is a common year starting on Thursday. ... James Cannon in Moscow (1922) James Patrick Cannon (1890-1974) was an American Communist and Trotskyist leader. ... The International Committee of the Fourth International (ICFI) is a Trotskyist international. ... The Communist Party of Great Britain (CPGB) was a political party in the United Kingdom, which existed from 1920 to 1991. ... Stalinism is a brand of political theory, and the political and economic system implemented by Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union. ... The 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union was held during February 14—February 26, 1956. ... Nikita Sergeyevich Khrushchof (Khrushchev) (Russian: Ники́та Серге́евич Хрущёв listen â–¶(?), April 17, 1894 â€“ September 11, 1971) was the leader of the Soviet Union after the death of Joseph Stalin. ... Joseph Stalin â–¶(?) (Russian, in full: Иосиф Виссарионович Сталин (Josef Vissarionovich Stalin), real name: Иосиф Виссарионович Джугашвили (Josef Vissarionovich Dzhugashvilli), Georgian: იოსებ ჯუღაშვილი (Ioseb Jughashvili); December 6 (OS)/December 18 (NS), 1878 – March 5, 1953) was the leader of the Soviet Union from mid-1920s to his death in 1953 and General Secretary of the Communist Party of the... Hungarians investigate a disabled Soviet tank in Budapest The 1956 Hungarian Revolution, also known as the Hungarian Uprising or simply the Hungarian Revolt, was an anti-Soviet revolt in Hungary lasting from 23 October to 4 November 1956. ... 1958 was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Workers Revolutionary Party was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... 1973 was a common year starting on Monday. ... The Workers Revolutionary Party was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ...

1974 saw the loss of a large group of members around Alan Thornett, then a leading militant in the automobile industry. Part of this group would form the Workers Socialist League. From this point the WRP lost members and became ever more isolated from the rest of the labour movement. However they remained sizeable and wealthy enough to produce a daily newspaper. Much of the monies for this printing enterprise coming from subsidies and printing contracts with various Middle Eastern regimes as internal reports later proved. They supplemented their income by printing newspapers for leading figures of the Labour Left such as George Galloway and the Labour Herald for Ted Knight, a former member of the SLL, and Ken Livingstone. Healy forged a friendship with Livingstone. The Herald also served as a vehicle for the WRP limited entrist operation in this period. Alan Thornett (born 1937) is a British Trotskyist leader. ... The Workers Socialist League (WSL) was a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... The labour movement (or labor movement) is a broad term for the development of a collective organization of working people, to campaign in their own interest for better treatment from their employers and political governments. ... A map showing countries commonly considered to be part of the Middle East The Middle East is a region comprising the lands around the southern and eastern parts of the Mediterranean Sea, a territory that extends from the eastern Mediterranean Sea to the Persian Gulf. ... George Galloway George Galloway (born on August 16, 1954) is a British politician noted for his left-wing views, confrontational style, and rhetorical skill. ... Ken Livingstone Kenneth Robert Livingstone (born June 17, 1945), is a British local government leader. ... Entryism (or entrism or enterism) is a political tactic by which an organisation encourages members to infiltrate another organisation in an attempt to gain recruits, or take over entirely. ...

Healy's regime within The Club, SLL and WRP was marked by demands for a high level of activism. The beating of opponents too had long been a cause for concern as with the famous beating of Ernie Tate in 1966. By 1985, concern as to Healy's links with the Libyan and Iraqi governments had risen within the WRP to the point at which the group imploded. the final straw being revelations from long time associate Aileen Jennings concerning Healy's alleged (but never proven) abuse of female members of his movement. Healy described the allegations as a smokescreen for those who had become disappointed with revolutionary politics, following the defeat of the miners' strike. The result was that Jennings disappeared and the WRP collapsed into many tiny, competing, groups. Ernest Tate, known as Ernie Tate, is a long-standing supporter of the Fourth International, based in Canada. ... 1966 was a common year starting on Saturday (link goes to calendar) // Events January January 1 - In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa ousts president David Dacko and takes over the Central African Republic. ... This article is about the year. ...

Healy was expelled from the WRP and it promptly split in two. One version of the group producing a version of their daily paper headlined "Healy Expelled" while his WRP produced a totally different version. Healy's WRP continued until what he saw as unconstitutional manoeuvres by the Torrance leadership led him to form another new group. Formed in 1987, the Marxist Party had very few members but did retain the allegiance of Vanessa Redgrave, the best known member of the WRP. In his old age Healy would claim that the disintegration of the WRP was due to the intervention of MI5 and came to the conclusion that Mikhail Gorbachev represented the looked for political revolution in the USSR. 1987 (MCMLXXXVII) is a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Marxist Party was a tiny Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. ... Vanessa Redgrave, CBE, (born January 30, 1937) is an British actress, a member of the Redgrave acting dynasty. ... Current MI5 headquarters in Thames House, London MI5, officially called the Security Service, is a British counter-intelligence and security agency. ... Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachyov (Gorbachev) listen â–¶(?) (Russian: ; pronunciation: ) (born March 2, 1931), was leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 until 1991. ... In the Trotskyist movement, the term political revolution refers to an unpheaval in which the government is replaced, or the form of government altered, but in which property relations are predominantly left intact. ...

Healy would die at the age of 76 in the UK from natural causes.

External links

• The Lubitz TrotskyanaNet provides a bio-bibliographical sketch on Gerry Healy