He then left to become one of the founders of the Workers International League, led by Ted Grant, Jock Haston and Ralph Lee.

The Club recruited a substantial number of former members of the Communist Party of Great Britain after they became disillusioned with Stalinism after the Twentieth Congress of the Soviet Communist Party in February 1956 which brought Khrushchev's revelations about Stalin and, later that year, the defeat of the Hungarian Revolution.

This qualitatively changed the ability of Healy's group to carry out activity and they launched The Newsletter as a regular weekly paper in 1958.

[9][10] Healy's Socialist Labour League filed lawsuits against Peace News and Socialist Leader for repeating the allegations, threatening them with bankruptcy, prompting the two publications to issue retractions and a public apology to Gerry Healy “for having published the suggestion that he employs violence or seeks to curtail freedom of expression” on 9 and 10 December 1966 respectively.

An exception to this requirement was made for participants in the cultural fronts the SLL set up to attract actors and writers, at least until they became full party members.

This attracted prominent figures including Vanessa Redgrave and Frances de la Tour, although they "were resented by many members of the WRP who felt they had parachuted into leading positions because of their fame and money.

[23] By then, concern as to Healy's financial, political and intelligence links with the Libyan and Iraqi governments had risen within the party to the point at which it imploded.

[24] On the front page of Newsline, which re-appeared after 12 days' absence because of the internal dispute,[23] Jennings wrote in an open letter that flats owned by the party were used in a "completely opportunist way for sexual liaisons" by Healy, who had used his status "to degrade women and girl comrades and destroy their self respect".

[28] She denounced her former colleague: "This is part of a political frame-up by Mr Banda who wants to dissolve the WRP because he has moved to the right".

One faction within the WRP supported the perspective advanced by the ICFI and Workers League National Secretary David North.

They felt that the female members of the party staff who were victims of Healy's callous and cynical mistreatment were entitled to support against him.

If he believed what he claims he would submit the issue to the verdict of a labour movement jury as has been the practice of revolutionaries since the 19th century.

Livingstone says that MI5 destroyed the old WRP because its close alliance with the Labour left during the miners strike of 1984–5 was a threat to the establishment.

[31] John Lister, expelled from the WRP in 1974, concluded:Healy was a crook and a political charlatan, who preserved his position as General Secretary of the WRP by resorting to the most bureaucratic and anti-democratic measures, who stubbornly opposed any campaigning for women's liberation or gay rights, who habitually subjected women "comrades" to sexual abuse, who sold out the WRP's formal principles and programme for Middle East oil money and who has done more than anyone to degrade the reputation of Marxism and Trotskyism in Britain.