Motion on the SWP leadership's decision to ban the S.W.P "International Tendency" and "defy" the October United Secretariat resolution on this issue
Language: eng
Subjects: International Socialist Tendency; Socialist Workers Party
Notes: "This right of leaderships to 'interpret' and determine the decisions of the F.I. at its World Congresses and IEC meetings nationally, cannot be re-interpreted to mean a right not to apply the statutes of the F.I. or not applying the decisions of its leading bodies at all, i.e. doing the opposite of what these bodies decide, on questions where the hold jurisdiction .... In this situation the USec (United Secretariat Bureau?) can only reiterate its proposal that the SWP leadership decision be re-discussed and changed "either  through a new discussion and decision of the SWP N.C. or by the next SWP convention."

The International Socialist Tendency (IST) is an international grouping of unorthodox Trotskyist organisations espousing the ideas of Tony Cliff (1917–2000), founder of the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in Britain (not to be confused with the unrelated Socialist Workers Party in the United States).