Every Trotskyist cult, the IMT most notoriously, is image-obsessed. The sordid search for publicity and self-promotion of these organisations is truly incredible. So much of our activity in the IMT was performative, aimed at making ourselves look like we were doing all this cool stuff for the cause of socialism, when actually, we weren’t doing … Read more
I have recently uncovered yet more evidence that Alan Woods, the leader of the International Marxist Tendency, happily associates with Russian fascists. Aside from the testimony provided by Peter Taaffe about an episode that happened in the 1990s, and his regurgitation of far-right propaganda about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine more recently, I have discovered that … Read more
A common attack launched against those who desert the cause is that we were never true Marxists in the first place. There is truth in this. Frank S. Meyer does say in The Moulding of Communists that the true Marxist-Leninist must conform so rigidly to an ideal type so inhuman, that those who fall away … Read more
When I was in the IMT, my life revolved around the organisation. Every week I would attend branch, for two hours in the evening. I would attend every Marxist Society event (and sometimes give talks), which was another two hours of my time, more, in fact, since we would have a social in the pub … Read more
All totalitarianisms are alike, but all totalitarianisms are totalitarian in their own way. An Islamist nutjob has just attempted to kill Salman Rushdie for the crime of writing a novel, so as to fulfill the fatwa issued against him many years ago by the demented, murderous tyrant Ayatollah Khomeini. Many on the left today, who … Read more
From ‘The Home-Coming’: O Solitude! Solitude, my home! …’O Zarathustra, I know all: and that you were lonelier among the crowd, you solitary, than you ever were with me! ‘Loneliness is one thing, solitude another: you have learned that – now! And that among men you will always be wild and strange: ‘wild and strange … Read more
Point out to an IMT cultist, or a member of any other Trotskyist sect, that their organisation is a cult, and they will respond, with all the outrage and incredulity that they can possibly muster, to the very bursting of their blood vessels, ‘We are just like every other organisation!’ Ha! As if. We (that … Read more
‘Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to such a pass that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others.’ ‘Above all, avoid falsehood, every kind of falsehood, especially falseness to … Read more