Talk:Workers Resistance

A fact from Workers Resistance appeared on Wikipedia's Main Page in the Did you know column on 7 December 2005. The text of the entry was as follows:

Did you know... that leaders of Workers Resistance, a Trotskyist group in Ukraine, set up a swathe of invented parties in order to defraud other left-wing organisations?

A record of the entry may be seen at Wikipedia:Recent additions/2005/December.

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Were they a small Trotskyist political party?

It looks to me that they were never a small Trotskyist political party as is claimed in the lead of the article but rather they were a group of fraudsters who pretended to be a small Trotskyist political party. Have they ever been a genuine party? Is the group of people who split with them (the Group of Proletarian Revolutionaries - Collectivists) a genuine political group?--JK the unwise 11:13, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, I think that they were a genuine Trotskyist party, with a corrupt leadership. They seem to have been above board until 2000; in their warnings, the split and the Maoist group never claimed that they hadn't been a genuine CWI section. There's nothing clear on what happened to the split, but I suspect that they may have rejoined Workers Resistance - it's still listed as a member of the CWI, who has announced that they are rebuilding the section. Warofdreams talk 11:42, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

fair enough, this might become clearer if more information about the genuine activities of the group can be found.--JK the unwise 11:52, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

No, the expelled people haven't rejoined Workers' Resistance. They've formed a new group - I don't know the name of it though. Homey 13:28, 9 December 2005 (UTC)[reply]

Apostrophe

Is it "Workers Resistance" or "Workers' Resistance"? The article uses both. I think the apostrophe version makes more grammatical sense. --Fang Aili ^talk 19:13, 4 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

GPRC

Group of Proletarian Revolutionaries Collectivists never was a part of WR. I begrounded GPRC independently of Vernik. But I really knew Vernik and in 1992 recommended it to Ted Grant's tendency (mea maxima culpa) . . . In 2003 I received information about the scam and sent it to my Western left-wing friends. See more about that - http://www.cdi.org/russia/johnson/2008-204.cfm , http://proletar.org.ua/vck/537/vladislav-bugera-ufa-moskva-rf-pismo-v-rassylku-stachkomru-31-avgusta-2003-goda . - Vladislav Bugera, a begrounder of GPRC Бугера Владислав Евгеньевич (talk) 07:07, 1 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]