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Workers Revolutionary Party (Newsline)


  • [The name came into use in 1986 when the title of the rival faction's newspaper was changed to Workers Press.]
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  • Variants

    • Workers Revolutionary Party (News Line)
    • WRP (Newsline)
    • WRP (News Line)
    • WRP (Healy)
    • Workers Revolutionary Party (Great Britain). News Line
  • Additional Information

    • Descriptor

        Political parties
    • Associated Locale

        Great Britain
    • Associated Language

        English
    • Field of Activity

      Communism

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  • Sources

    • found: The news line, 28 May 2015:p.4 (Workers Revolutionary Party; contact address: BCM Box WC1N 3XX)
    • found: Wikipedia, viewed 10 July 2015:under Workers Revolutionary Party, UK (WRP is a Trotskyist group in Britain once led by Gerry Healy; in 1985, the WRP split into two factions which became known by their newspapers; initially, both groups continued under the WRP name and both published a newspaper named News Line; the group led by Cliff Slaughter became known as WRP (Workers Press) when it changed the name of its newspaper; the group led by Gerry Healy and Sheila Torrance was known as the WRP (Newsline); WRP (Newsline) maintains possession of the WRP name)
    • found: Encyclopedia of British and Irish political organizations, 2000(Workers' Revolutionary Party (WRP (Newsline); 1985 to present; WRP (Newsline) formed as a result of the October 1985 split in the Workers' Revolutionary Party; initially, the former WRP leader, Gerry Healy, remained in WRP (Newsline); in Nov. 1986, Healy left WRP (Newsline) with Corin and Vanessa Redgrave to form the Marxist Party)
    • found: Uneasytoad website, viewed 10 July 2015(Workers Revolutionary Party [Newsline]; born 1985; still breathing; alias: WRP (Newsline), WRP (Healy), Workers Revolutionary Party; split from Workers Revolutionary Party (1973-1985))
    • found: Workers Revolutionary Party website, viewed 10 July 2015:home p. (Workers Revolutionary Party) publications p. (News Line, daily newspaper, [and others])
  • General Notes

    • [The name came into use in 1986 when the title of the rival faction's newspaper was changed to Workers Press.]
  • Editorial Notes

    • [Use this heading when appropriate; this faction seems to be the inheritor of the original Workers Revolutionary Party; use that heading for later publications of WRP (Newsline) when its name reverted officially to "Workers Revolutionary Party", date unknown]
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  • Change Notes

    • 2015-07-10: new
    • 2015-07-11: revised
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