REPLYTO LES
First of all Respect is not a Trotskist organisation.I should know I am a member!
It is a coalition ,or more accurately attempting to be a coalition of both socialist and reformist individuals and organisations who are coming together on the joint basis of opposition to the war and defence of public services plus support for ethnic minorities and civilrights. There is obviously a lot more but space precludes me from writing its founding principles here.
Some of the organisations you mention above appear to be little more than paper organisations with no branch structures and very few members.One or two I have never heard of!
Many of the splits in the Trotskists organisations go back to the late 1940s and the vatious views about the nature of the Soviet Union which could be a thread on Mudcat all by itself.
I am also vary wary about describing any of these organisations as Trotskists as the term is not helpful in itself.
david