Trot Watcher

In December 2019, the good people of Socialist Appeal based in London gathered at the Centre for a fun-filled, boozy Christmas social. Rob Sewell, who had unfortunately had too many beers prior to the event, was expected to give a lead-off at the beginning of the social, before an extended political discussion. Rob stood to … Read more

The details can be found here. Indeed, more recently rumours of Shaista’s supposed ‘inappropriate’ behaviour at World School 2013 arose, whereby she has been accused on a number of occasions of ‘flirting’ with senior members of the organisation such as Rob Sewell and Alan Woods. Clearly, this is a ridiculous allegation and amounts to little … Read more

The good folks at Cultist Appeal announced recently that they have reached 1000 members and that they will be rebranding themselves as a party for the year 2024. This seems to me to be an admission in all but name that their entrism scheme has failed miserably. When I was a member, we always said … Read more

I don’t like talking about my time at university. It was hell. And it was hell because of my involvement in the highly abusive cult that is the International Marxist Tendency. University in this country as in many others in the Western world is sold as a chance to make a fresh start from the … Read more

A very personal one to me.

I will live my days/For my fellow men And I’ll thank the world/And remember when I was able to begin again

I distinctly remember that some time in late 2017 or early 2018, the Israel-Palestine issue came up in Warwick Marxist Society group chat. Thomas, our branch secretary, in response to another member mentioning the issue, confessed that he knew little about it but knew one thing – capitalism would never solve it, only socialism would. … Read more

“I suddenly realised that I was on the other side,” he says. “What I saw was an unruly mob of self-indulgent middle-class hooligans. When I asked my friends what they wanted, what were they trying to achieve, all I got back was this ludicrous Marxist gobbledegook. I was disgusted by it, and thought there must … Read more

Often for 18 hours a day…much of it in my room…