The SWP regarded entryism as a disastrous strategy and had nothing but contempt for Trotskyist fractions (like Militant and the IMG) who tried it. Les is seriously misinformed.

On the other hand, the SWP was prepared to take part in united front groupings, of which the anti-racist movements of the 1980s were the most successful. Labour Party members with no Trotskyist affiliation have to take a lot of the credit for what they achieved. But that doesn't happen any more, and it's Labour that failed. If they had been prepared to give the UKIP racists the same sort of kicking the National Front got, we wouldn't now have over a million European citizens living in the UK facing deportation. The sheer gutlessness of Labour's response to the racists' campaign beggars belief.