Thomas Gerard Healy, known as Gerry Healy, (December 3, 1913 - December 14, 1989) was a Trotskyist activist. Born in Ballybane, County Galway, Ireland, he emigrated to England and worked as a ship radio operator at the age of 14. He soon joined the Communist Party of Great Britain, but then left to join the Trotskyist Militant Group in 1937. He then left to become one of the founders of the Workers International League, led by Jock Haston and Ralph Lee. Wikipedia
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Healy then founded "The Club" and advocated "entryism," a campaign in which a small number of well-organised and disciplined revolutionaries would join the Labour Party , in power after winning the 1945 general election, and win over militant workers to T reds.linefeed.org/bios/healy.html
The perspectives Healy was given by the SWP consisted essentially of a dogmatic adherence to Trotsky's pre-war prognoses, which had anticipated neither the long-term viability of bourgeois democracy nor capitalism's ability to achieve a sustained economic www.whatnextjournal.co.uk/Pages/Healy/Chap2.html
