Early Political Experience
He joined the Young Communist League (YCL) as a teenager in Manchester and then, in 1960, Gerry Healy's Trotskyist Socialist Labour League, from which he was expelled in 1963. He joined another Trotskyist group, the Revolutionary Socialist League (better known as Militant) in 1965 and in 1966 co-authored a pamphlet, What We Are and What We Must Become outlining his views. When the RSL refused to circulate it among the membership, he and his supporters left the organisation.
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