- Ernie Tate
Ernest Tate, known as Ernie Tate, is a long-standing supporter of the
reunified Fourth International , based inCanada .Born in
Northern Ireland , Tate was recruited byRoss Dowson into the Canadian section of the Fourth International. In the late 1960s, he went from North America toGreat Britain to work with supporters of International to solidify the youngInternational Marxist Group , of which he became a leader [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=21&url=http%3A%2F%2Farchive.workersliberty.org%2Fpublications%2Freadings%2Ftrots%2Fmilitant.html&ei=pf0ASPzLO6HGQdn17IsJ&usg=AFQjCNG6B7UY-l-6fWhJ1oXPP6gPugYguw&sig2=zlzTgnNfLzAVpB78cre9uQ] . Ernie and fellow Canadian Pat Brain worked side by side withBertrand Russell in theRussell Tribunal set up to investigate US war crimes in Vietnam.The famous beating of Ernie Tate in 1966 by supporters of
Gerry Healy was acause célèbre within the worldTrotskyist movement [http://www.marxists.org/history/etol/document/icl-spartacists/1986/1966interview.html] . One of his recruits to the IMG wasTariq Ali .Ernie Tate was one of two members of the
Vietnam Solidarity Campaign organising committee for the demonstration against the Vietnam war in London in October 1968 who successfully opposed a proposal to halt the march in Whitehall, which would have caused unnecessary confrontation with the police and a degeneration into violence. He was thus instrumental in ensuring that the 200,000 participants passed through London peacefully, despite dire prognostications in the press and on television (who reported the march but also gave undue coverage to a simultaneous 5,000-strong violent counter-protest by Maoists attacking the United States Embassy). As a result, opposition to the war grew enormously in Britain at the same time as in the United States.Tate was a founder of the
Leninist Trotskyist Tendency in 1973. [http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&ct=res&cd=11&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.marxists.org%2Fhistory%2Fetol%2Fdocument%2Ffi%2F1963-1985%2Fusfi%2Fpre-ltt-imt%2Fltt01.htm&ei=Mf8ASPP1K6eeQPK58Z0J&usg=AFQjCNG6JG6_-VQot1DpsQ_LpxPaI7CfDw&sig2=pqb9ZNNoLd3qIA3RGKyUqg] He returned to Canada in 1969.External links
* [http://www.isg-fi.org.uk/spip.php?article286 The British Left and the Anti-Imperialist Struggle] ,
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