conference of the ILP. [22] On 11 October 1936, twenty six Bolshevik-Leninists attended the national meeting of the groups and put a strong line based on the Geneva conference. The Marxist Group conference of the previous day effectively marked off those ILPers who were now prepared to join the Labour Party. [23] In the autumn Don James and two others came over from the Liverpool ILP. [24] The Bolshevik-Leninists also encountered a loose association of dissident Marxists who sold Trotsky's pamphlets and the American Militant in Hyde Park and at Marble Arch. They were inducted before 1936 was out. [25] Against these accessions had to be balanced the failure to achieve a modus operandi with the Marxist League [26] although both it and the Bolshevik-Leninists had an interest in each other's field of work. [27] But Bolshevik-Leninists had played some part in launching Fight as an FI journal in October. [28] The Bolshevik-Leninists, (who from summer 1937 became known as the Militant Group), operated within what became known as a "split perspective". They intended, like all other Trotskyists who in these years joined larger parties, to leave with the foreseeable future. Hopefully, this break would be made with an enhanced membership. [29] But the corollary of aiming at a breakaway was that the entrists and not the party apparatus would decide the timing. It therefore became vital that they should not be compromised by unconstitutional activities before they had sufficient opportunity to gather support. This was not a new problem: