In the IMT, I was always taught that Lenin and Trotsky had conducted a heroic battle against anti-Semitism, and that it was revived by the evil Stalin as part of the ‘bureaucratic counter-revolution’ that reversed many of the ‘gains’ of the Russian Revolution. I had no idea of the Bolsheviks’ early efforts to stamp out … Read more
None of us desires or is able to dispute the will of the Party. Clearly the Party is always right. . . . We can only be right with and by the Party, for history has provided no other way of being in the right. . . . [I]f the Party adopts a decision which … Read more
There is a third method of leadership which I will confess to you frankly I noticed only after I passed my sixtieth birthday. That is the leadership of a cult. I will admit that I lived sixty years in this world before I stumbled over the fact that there are such things as political cults. … Read more
There’s no gaslighter like a Trotskyist gaslighter. There is no liar like a Trotskyist liar. There is no bigot like a Trotskyist bigot. And all of that is being brought to light by this blog. On my last post, I discussed the emotional trauma that results from being in, and breaking with, a political cult. … Read more
To whom it may concern, I am writing to you to declare my intention of resigning from the Labour Party. My three years of membership have been tumultuous. When I look back on it in hindsight, I realise that I was the victim of an utter scam. I joined the party in October 2017, at … Read more
Anyone who knows me knows that I love country music. And one of my all-time country heroes is Marty Robbins. Marty was a pretty strident anti-communist (like most country singers were back then) and back in the 1960s recorded this catchy tune for his record company. Sadly, they judged it too political and canned it, and thus it remained unearthed for decades. Here, you can enjoy the whole thing in all its glory. It accurately describes the IMT and groups like it.
I am embarrassed to say that I had the personal acquaintance of Canadian members of the International Marxist Tendency, whose section is known as Fightback/La Riposte. I was, after all, part of a large, global network of IMT members on Facebook. The Canadian comrades were among the loudest and most entertaining. Needless to say, any … Read more
When I joined the IMT, I was soon appraised of the potential dangers of the Internet. The Internet, for us, had its uses. It was useful for promoting our propaganda on social media, encouraging traffic to our website and winning ‘contacts’ and new comrades. However, we were also warned to be ‘disciplined’ in our use … Read more
All cults have a special vocabulary to cut off members from the outside world. Trotskyist cults use bizarre words and phrases to control the thinking patterns of their members. My experience in the International Marxist Tendency (IMT) involved precisely this sort of thing. ‘Comrade’ – a member of the organisation, ‘one of us’. Creates warm … Read more