In the middle of the war the ILP was floundering. Not having
a fully worked out Marxist programme, it combined opportunism and sectarianism
at the same time. They could not understand the method as outlined by Ted Grant
at the time, which was not to issue mere denunciations of the Labour Party
leaders. It could "only be done by demonstrating to the masses, by their own
experience, that their leaders are incapable of representing their interests."
Read the full article in the Ted Grant Archive.