Announcement
This announcement promises the SLL’s reply to Tony Whelan’s pamphlet The Credibility Gap, which is on the IMG magazines archive. The reply is Cliff Slaughter’s Reform or Revolution, Workers Press nos. 250–252. Read it: Tony Whelan, The Credibility Gap (IMG, 1970): the whole pamphlet, corrected against the scan.
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IN APRIL of this year, Comrade G. Healy, national secretary of the Socialist Labour League, made approaches to Pierre Frank, a member of the 'United Secretariat of the Fourth International' in Paris, and suggested that a way should be found to begin discussions between the International Committee of the Fourth International and the United Secretariat, in which the possibility of unification could be raised.
We are pleased to note that on July 5, the United Secretariat announced that it was prepared to accept this proposal for discussion.
At the same time, the representatives of the United Secretariat in Britain (the 'International Marxist Group') and other supporters of the Pabloites, have, since July 5, published political attacks on the SLL.
The latest of these is the pamphlet entitled 'The Credibility Gap—the politics of the SLL' by Tony Whelan.
We assume from this that the United Secretariat and its British members wish the polemic to be fought publicly while the internal discussion proceeds, and we are therefore preparing a political reply to Whelan's pamphlet, to appear in the Workers Press in the very near future.