Trot Watcher It has been one year since I set up this blog to expose the inner workings of the IMT. This is nine months after I stormed out of the sect, unable to put up with their nonsense for five more minutes. Leaving the organisation was partly an act of impulse. I felt that I could … Read more
Today marks the tenth anniversary of the death of one of my heroes, Christopher Hitchens. Like many people, I discovered him as a nerdy high school student via the collection of debates, speeches and interviews on YouTube that he took part in throughout his career as a public intellectual. I have vague memories of reading … Read more
No one wants to admit that they could have been conned, lied to or tricked into entering into a cult or an abusive relationship. They are insulted at the very idea. It is understandable. We like to think of ourselves as rational creatures who are in control of our minds and do not allow ourselves … Read more
I try and avoid the IMT website as much as possible. I have barely frequented it in months. However, now and then, some news will come up in the search results and I will give it a skim. I doubt I will ever commit to reading a full article on that loathsome website again. Back … Read more
There was never any such thing as a Trotskyist theory – only a deposed leader who tried desperately to recover his role, who could not realize that his efforts were vain, and who would not accept responsibility for a state of affairs which he regarded as a strange degeneration, but which was in fact that … Read more
There was a time when I was quite charmed by the Dear Leader, Kim Jong-Woods, as a naive contact and then member of the organisation. I even imitated his gestures and jokes in his ‘lead-offs’ for my own. He was and is a very charismatic, eloquent and well-read man, gifted with a verve for the … Read more
Janja Lalich is a cult expert and a former member of the Democratic Workers’ Party (DWP), one of many left-wing cults that existed in the 1970s. She has been one of the people whose work has been of help to me in my recovery from cultism. She has written and spoken extensively about her experiences … Read more
In his book, Great Contemporaries, published in 1937, Churchill wrote a damning account of Trotsky’s life of murder and mayhem. Reading it, you get a sense that this arch-criminal and miscreant got what was coming to him when his life was cut short by a blessed ice-axe. When the usurper and tyrant is reduced to … Read more
I still remember my first October School. I have written of it in my Medium piece. I remember how exciting it all was. Now, I look back and realise I was the victim of mind control. The October School is the IMT’s flagship event, held every October in order to celebrate the October Revolution (which … Read more
Kathleen Stock and cancel culture Recently, Kathleen Stock, a professor at the University of Sussex, stepped down from her post after a disgusting bullying campaign by far-left woke students who subjected her to a vicious campaign of harassment for weeks. She is the latest victim of ‘cancel culture’. I cringe to think that had I … Read more