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Ken Coates
“It is true that there have been repeated attempts to link these quarrelsome splinters into one all-embracing movement. In the late fifties, Walter Kendall and Eric Heffer both made attempts to persuade them to sink their differences, when at a time when the Trotskyist and syndicalist groups numbered perhaps 1% of their present adherents, they brought most of them together for a series of abortive conferences on unity. The result was failure. More recently, in the mid-sixties, the May-day Manifesto called all who would come to its banner, and stayed in business for long enough to publish at least one admirable text and to encourage a worthwhile growth of community action groups and women’s liberation caucuses.”
