the only group in Britain following international recommendations, and that conferral of official status would hasten the disintegration of the other two, a process already underway, (EC, Bolshevik-Leninist Group, Statement to the Bureau , 5-7). 13. Declaration of the International Bureau for the Fourth International on the subject of the English Marxist Group , 13 Dec. 1936, n.p., kindly lent to author by Mr. John Archer. 15. "Braun" was the pseudonym of Erwin Wolf (1902-37) secretary of the IS until his murder in Spain, probably by the G.P.U., late in the year. The initiative for this meeting came from the Militant Group who sought a common approach to the Unity Campaign. Interim Reply of the EC, Militant Group to the Marxist League , 3 Aug. 1937, in Inter-Group Relations , [Sept.] 1937. 16. These are likely to have been misgivings about its campaign for early independence for the League of Youth (Secretary, London Group, [Militant Group], Report to Provincial Branch on Joint Meeting , 14 Feb. 1937, H.P., D.J.H 2A/3B). 18. The Marxist League never sold Youth Militant but did put efforts into a short-lived and narrowly based Socialist League journal Socialist Youth , of which, suggested Militant , it had control. The League also circulated the POUM bulletin in England. The irony that two groups who vehemently opposed the Unity Campaign could not themselves unite, passed without comment. 19. Without this sense of time running out, it seems unlikely that the Marxist Group would have made its rapid turn