The War Cabinet had before them a Memorandum by the Home Secretary and Minister of Home Security (W.P. (44) 202) on the Trotskyist movement in Great Britain.

The memorandum traced the course of the movement in Great Britain from its beginning in 1929 to its reorganisation in 1944 as the    "Revolutionary Communist  Party'    The    present    membership of the party was probably well below a thousand; outside London it was strongest  in Clydeside, and weakest in the Midlands and South Wales.

It had three newspapers of which the most important was Socialist Appeal, a fortnightly publication with a circulation of 8,000 to 10,000 copies.

Its propaganda appeared to be intended to stir up class feeling among the workers rather than to have any direct effect on the war. It had had some share in the recent strike of engineering apprentices and in some other wartime strikes, but its activity had consisted rather in advising and encouraging strike leaders than in provoking the strikes. Its influence was localised and, small, and less in the mining than in the engineering industry.    Generally, the movement seemed unlikely to rise to a position of any real influence.

The War Cabinet- Took note of W.P. (44) 202.