"What Happened to the Workers Socialist League?" from Trotskyist History No 1. 1994, Published by Faction B of the International Socialist Group/Britain (ISG)
This is a long, very detailed, blow by blow, account of a tendency struggle in the Workers Socialist League (WSL), whose leader was Alan Thornett. It helps to explain the origins of the British ITO comrades. Essentially, the Malvinas/Falklands War created a crisis in the WSL after its fusion with "Socialist Organiser" (now the "Alliance for Workers Liberty"). Socialist Organiser leader, Sean Matgamna, refused to defend Argentina against British imperialism and called for "self-determination for the Falkland Islanders". The proto-ITO comrades opposed this line and called for defence of Argentina and for recognition of Argentine sovereignty over the Islands. It can be seen from this document, and the one below, that Matgamna’s drift towards bureaucratic collectivism was noted and exposed by our tendency long before it emerged into the open.
2) "Against Unprincipled Revisionism, Against National Trotskyism". From the Internal Bulletin of the Workers Socialist League, January 1983.
This was a key document of the tendency which opposed Matgamna’s reactionary line on the Malvinas/Falklands War, Ireland, Bennism and Stalinism.