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
Just last night, I had another nightmare about some people I knew from the IMT. There is no understating just how damaging membership in a cult can be to your mental health. My mental health was terrible at university, in large part because of my membership of the IMT and horrific treatment and shunning from … Read more
Jock Haston was one of Ted Grant’s supporters during the struggle to build a Trotskyist organisation in Britain during the 1940s. Exhausted, he dropped out of the movement around 1950, his shot-gun merger with the Healyites having backfired. Alan Woods touches on Haston’s desertion in his book about Ted Grant, but sanitises it – the … Read more
I left the International Marxist Tendency in March of 2020, and have never looked back. I have since embraced the freedom that leaving this cult has provided me. Cults use all sorts of tactics to shame people out of the idea of leaving. One of them is to say that if you leave, you are … Read more