Sean Matgamna: finding my way to Trotskyism, part 1: the "manacles" of nations and classes
Sean Matgamna founded the Workers’ Fight group after political battles with and within the bigger Trotskyist groups that existed in the mid-1960s, the SLL and the Militant. How did he come to do that? Or to become a Trotskyist at all? I’d considered myself a communist from when I was between 15 and 16, early in 1957. In 1959 I became politically active as a would-be revolutionary trade unionist, and I decided to join the Young Communist League. I was working in a timber yard in Salford where was no union for the labourers. I decided to join the union and see if I could get the others to join...