Everyone who comes makes us larger. [21] Repetitive appeals of this kind did not make a strategy for producing a powerful Trotskyist movement. They flew in the face of Trotsky's own pleas of 1933 and 1936 for a sense of proportion, but they were also an anticipation of the 1938 decision to launch a Fourth International in the hope of holding the revolutionary forces together. James shared an international illusion that successive labour movement defeats left workers looking for an alternative. Hence Fight had the tone of a paper merely drawing attention to the obvious. The Labour Party, it declared, would only bring disillusionment. "The sooner this happens the better. To be disillusioned with Labour Party reformism is the first step to revolutionary clarity". [22] When confronted by the London Busmen's Strike, Fight observed that the behaviour of the LPTB and union officials "occasions no surprise". "The mere substitution of, say, Bevin by Papworth would achieve nothing", it warned. [23] Fight and the Marxist Group did not deceive themselves that they were a party. But they believed that coming disaffection from established parties would lead people to look for one [24] : the Fourth International had to maintain an independent presence so that it could be found. Other Trotskyists, engaged in entry work, had, in Fight 's view, a futile task. The ILP had reached the limit of its leftward swing in early 1935. "To think that the ILP, as a party, can be won for revolutionary Marxism, is, in