Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) Grant similarly formed a group called the International Socialist Group. Most former members of the RCP had left the Trotskyist movement by the end of 1951. Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) The Revolutionary Communist Party was a British Trotskyist group, formed in 1944 and active until 1949, which published the newspaper "Socialist Appeal" and a theoretical journal, "Workers International News". The party was founded as the official section of the Fourth International in Britain after the Revolutionary Socialist League collapsed. Moreover, the RSL had not adopted the positions of the Fourth International with regard to the Second World War and
Revolutionary Communist Party (UK, 1944) to whether the RCP should enter the Labour Party. The majority supported entry. A faction was declared by some supporters of the leadership, which firmly opposed entry. This grouping of RCPers called itself the Open Party Faction and was increasingly disillusioned with the leadership around Jock Haston and Ted Grant whom they thought to be caving in to Healy's entry group, ultimately leading to a decision to dissolve the RCP in 1950 and join the Labour Party. The International then ordered that the members of the RCP join Healy's entry group, known as The Club, but that despite being in