The result was that the defeatist position adopted in 1938 by the founding congress of the Trotskyist Fourth International lacked political purchase.
It drew forth fierce denunciations from members of the Forum Club, a Trotskyist political forum in Cape Town.
But neither of the two main Trotskyist factions was monolithic in its reaction to war.
The Young Socialists of the Seine, who were led by Trotskyist militants, brought their support to the strike.
The theory of skipping over a movement which has not outlived its day is a Trotskyist theory.
