Trot Watcher In a new low for the IMT, they have just republished some articles by a man named Jacques Baud, a former Swiss army officer and intelligence expert turned conspiracy theorist and Kremlin asset. According to his Wikipedia page, this loon has appeared on far-right conspiracist channels like the French-language Russia Today and the far-right YouTube … Read more
Over the past month I have read both Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth-Century Life and Gareth Stedman Jones’ Karl Marx: Greatness and Illusion. Both books have their strengths and weaknesses. Both do a convincing job of correcting the record on Marx and his relationship to the doctrine that bears his name. They put him … Read more
In a not entirely surprising development, the International Fascist Tendency has just published another article by the Dear Leader himself, Alan Woods, who at this point I think we can consider a paid agent of the Russian government. To this man I would like to extend my thoughts and prayers at this trying time. The … Read more
‘Dialectics is foresight over astonishment.’-Leon Trotsky ‘The imperialist propaganda machine insists that Putin has failed in his objective, and that the Russian army’s advance has been halted by the heroic resistance of the Ukrainian army. …Ultimately, it is the balance of forces that will determine the outcome. And that is overwhelmingly in favour of Russia. … Read more
484. GOING OUR OWN WAY.-When we take the decisive step, and make up our minds to follow our own path, a secret is suddenly revealed to us: it is clear that all those who had hitherto been friendly to us and on intimate terms with us judged themselves to be superior to us, and are … Read more
When I was a member of the IMT, we were never given a convincing or coherent picture of how socialism would work in practice. The answer to all the economic problems of the world could be summed up by the same vague proposal, uncritically proffered to the starving masses, to implement a ‘nationalised planned economy’, … Read more
I am celebrating two years of freedom from the International Marxist Tendency today. I cannot quite believe that it has already been that long since I deserted this malicious enterprise that I so naively attached myself to as a confused undergraduate just four years ago. I am glad to be out of there, and when … Read more
The year is 1991. The socialist revolution in Britain has begun, led by the Militant Tendency. After months of protests against the hated poll tax, Ted Grant and his followers succeed in winning over the working-class to the idea of overthrowing the hated capitalist order once and for all. The police and armed forces sent … Read more
The IMT has just released a recording of a ‘lead-off’ given by one of its chief analysts on the Ukraine crisis, Jorge Martin. It is half an hour of propaganda and distortion, which I will aim to debunk in this post. First of all, Martin speaks contemptuously of the ‘imperialist propaganda’ to which Russia is … Read more
The IMT leadership officially released a statement yesterday on behalf of the entire organisation staking out its position on the Ukrainian war against Russian imperialism. They repeated the same old cliches about how it is an ‘inter-imperialist struggle’ and that Marxists should be ‘neutral’ (presumably including Ukrainian Marxists, who should do nothing as Russian tanks … Read more