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The '''Revolutionary Communist Party''' was a [[British]] [[Trotskyist]] party. It was formed in 1944 by the merger of the [[Revolutionary Socialist League]] and the [[Workers' International League]] at the behest of the American-dominated International Secretariat of the [[Fourth International]]. The General Secretary was Jock Haston; other prominent members included [[Ted Grant]], later the head of the [[Militant Tendency]] (a Trotskyist group within the [[Labour Party]]), and [[Gerry Healy]], subsequently leader of the [[Workers' Revolutionary Party]]. [[T. Dan Smith]] was a member of both the WIL and RCP between 1942 and 1946.  

The '''Revolutionary Communist Party''' was a [[British]] [[Trotskyism|Trotskyist]] party. It was formed in 1944 by the merger of the [[Revolutionary Socialist League]] and the [[Workers' International League]] at the behest of the American-dominated International Secretariat of the [[Fourth International]]. The General Secretary was Jock Haston; other prominent members included [[Ted Grant]], later the head of the [[Militant Tendency]] (a Trotskyist group within the [[Labour Party]]), and [[Gerry Healy]], subsequently leader of the [[Workers' Revolutionary Party]]. [[T. Dan Smith]] was a member of both the WIL and RCP between 1942 and 1946.  

Although tiny, with only a few hundred members, the party achieved some publicity as a right-wing bogey through its industrial activity. It was believed (incorrectly) to be fomenting strikes (though it did give support to strikes which had broken out), and it posed as a defender of workers rights at a time when the Stalinist [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] stood four-square behind the war effort (RCPers mocked the CPGB as 'His Majesty's Communist party'). In 1944, Haston and three other of its leaders were tried and gaoled for assisting an engineering apprentices' strike on [[Tyneside]]; the convictions were later overturned.  

Although tiny, with only a few hundred members, the party achieved some publicity as a right-wing bogey through its industrial activity. It was believed (incorrectly) to be fomenting strikes (though it did give support to strikes which had broken out), and it posed as a defender of workers rights at a time when the Stalinist [[Communist Party of Great Britain]] stood four-square behind the war effort (RCPers mocked the CPGB as 'His Majesty's Communist party'). In 1944, Haston and three other of its leaders were tried and gaoled for assisting an engineering apprentices' strike on [[Tyneside]]; the convictions were later overturned.