101 Gerry Healy and the Workers Revolutionary Party

On this episode of the show we were joined by Dr. Aidan Beatty to discuss his new book The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism published by Pluto Press. Gerry Healy was the Galway born leader of the Socialist Labour League and the Workers Revolutionary Party. He was a key figure in Trotskyism and one of the most controversial leaders on the British left. His legacy is tainted by his expulsion from his own party under accusations of sexual abuse, his use of violence against political opponents and the cult like conditions of his party. Aidan Beatty is an award-winning historian and lecturer at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. He is the author of Private Property and the Fear of Social Chaos , and Masculinity and Power in Irish Nationalism , which was awarded the James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize. He has written for Jacobin , the Irish Times and the Washington Post . He will be the president of the American Conference for Irish Studies in 2025. We have started a Patreon page for The Irish Story website and The Irish History Show. Please follow the link and your support is greatly appreciated.  Intro / Outro music “Sliabh” from Aislinn. Licensed under creative commons from the free music archive.

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101 Gerry Healy and the Workers Revolutionary Party is an episode from The Irish History Show by Cathal Brennan and John Dorney.

This episode is 1:22:31 long.

This episode was published on Oct 4, 2024.

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