A Renegade's Report

You’ve done it! You’ve escaped a nasty, grasping, unpleasant cult and have made your way to the broad, sunlit uplands of the real world. Like the people trapped in Plato’s cave, it will take you a while to adjust to your new situation. Now and then, the temptation is always there to return to the … Read more

My blog has received an enormous amount of views in the past day or two, in part thanks to a former member of a Marxist-Leninist cult sharing it on Twitter. A young man named Eoin, an acquaintance of mine in the IMT (though it is unclear whether he is still a member) posted the following … Read more

Fehr Mahrouf, professional idiot and one of the IMT’s main attack dogs on social media, recently tweeted what might win the award for most moronic statement ever made by an IMT member. He has lambasted the idea that reading things you disagree with is good for one’s intellectual development, denouncing it as a ‘post-modernist’ idea. … Read more

It now appears that Alex Grant, the now disgraced ex-leader of the IMT’s Canadian section, has been removed from his position for sexual misconduct. The full story can be read here. After expending what little goodwill his miserable sect had on covering up for rapists and sex pests in the past year or so, he … Read more

IMT member Jack Shaw, cultist and ex-comrade of mine, who was with me in the Warwick branch (in which I can confirm that he was a conformist dullard with very little politics of his own and very little idea about anything), has commented on Twitter proclaiming that expressing opinions in a political organisation, which should … Read more

In the wake of the rape scandal last year, the IMT is desperately trying to shore up its members and solidify the loyalty of its remaining members and its new recruits through a massive campaign of anti-identity politics propaganda and rape apologia. A member of their Pakistani section has been posting quotes from sessions of … Read more

Those of us who are ex-IMT members (and ex-members of other Trot sects) all have things we secretly hated doing, but would never admit to so doing in front of other ‘comrades’, for fear of losing face. Here are all the things that IMT members secretly hate (and that ex-members secretly hated) but will never … Read more

A common refrain by IMT cultists in response to any criticism they receive online is ‘At least we’re organising.’ The mere fact that they are in a political organisation and are carrying out routine activities associated with being part of a group is to them sufficient proof that they are doing something meaningful or effective … Read more

Native Son is black American writer Richard Wright’s masterpiece novel, published in 1940. It was a sensation at the time, and remains powerful reading today. I read it last December and I was fascinated by the tale of Bigger Thomas, the frustrated young black ne’er-do-well who becomes a rebel against the white society that holds … Read more