It has been two and a half years since the crisis began in the CWI, starting at the IEC of November 2018.

The split was an extremely negative development in the progress of what had become the biggest Trotskyist international organisation.

The CWI split into three main parts and a number of smaller ones.

This was based on the experience of the many splits in the Trotskyist and anti-capitalist Left, historically, whenever a vacuum was created in the leadership core: every split had a series of aftershocks.