 Trotsky advised the group to enter the Independent Labour Party (ILP), which had just disaffiliated from the Labour Party.He believed that the group should work for a "Bolshevik transformation of the party".The majority of the Communist League argued against joining the ILP in favour of maintaining an open party, but allowed thirty of its members led by Denzil Dean Harber to form a secretive "Bolshevik-Leninist Fraction" in the ILP.