I have done quite a lot of IMT-bashing on this blog, being, as I am, a former member. But this blog was also set up to expose other Trotskyist cults, and now seems like a wonderful opportunity to bash the Socialist Workers’ Party, and their antics in a London school. It turns out that this … Read more
Just a few months ago, I would have denied that the IMT was anti-Semitic. I would have said that, for all my problems with them, I did not see anti-Semitism as one of them. I even convinced myself, for a time, that our position on Israel was ‘moderate’ compared to those of other left-wing sects … Read more
I had my criticisms of Ted Grant and Socialist Appeal, but I considered it free of the taint of anti-Semitism – until now. You see, our position on Israel-Palestine was obviously absurd, but was distinct from the overtly racist position of the SWP, which has no problem with the ‘reactionary’ Israeli working-class being driven into … 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
Life in a cult leaves you bruised and battered. When I left the IMT in March 2020, I knew I had a road both long and thorny to travel before I could recover. I may never recover fully from the experience, but that does not mean that I am not going to try. In recent … Read more
How I became a Corbynista It is the end of an era. Jeremy Corbyn’s time has come and gone. Despite all of the fire and fury, the optimism and exuberance, the tumult and turmoil, the Corbyn movement appears to have collapsed as quickly as it began. That is not to say that the Corbyn movement … 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.
Introduction A central feature of Marxism (and indeed, Trotskyism) is dialectical materialism. Marx developed his theory of dialectical materialism from his re-interpretation of Hegel’s philosophy. Hegel borrowed the concept from Heraclitus, an ancient Greek thinker, who famously argued that the world was in flux and contained contradictions. On this basis, he stated that ‘No one … Read more