Harry's Place

A reader, who wishes to remain anonymous, located in the vaults and kindly sent in a copy of the Young Liberal Songbook from September 1967. They correctly assessed that I would find it of interest. I copy below a song from that book ridiculing the Labour Party for a perceived inability to get rid of [...]

Less than five years after George Galloway told Socialist Workers Party members in Respect to “fuck off, the lot of you,” SWP cadre Richard Seymour is busting his buttons to announce that the newly-elected MP for Blackburn Bradford West will speak at the SWP’s Marxism 2012.
This comes after Galloway– previously a regular at the annual [...]

I want to call attention to this paragraph about the founder and patron saint of the Socialist Workers Party in Nick Cohen’s excellent Standpoint piece.
Leftists of the 1968 generation tried to recover something from the disgrace of Marxism-Leninism by arguing that if only Trotsky had succeeded Lenin then all would have been well. Trotsky, however, [...]

You’ll have read that the recent Stop The War Coalition rally drew about 200 supporters only.
As the rally had been called to defend Assad, as you might imagine, a large proportion of those attending were Syrian Baathists. As you can see,  they ended up fighting with supporters of the Iranian Green Movement.

Hands Off the People of [...]

For a so-called Trotskyist party, the SWP do act in very Stalinist fashion. Splintered Sunrise has published a lengthy guest post on the historical experience of factions within the SWP and its forerunner, the IS.
The culture of the Party is thoroughly exposed by this interesting passage:

What cannot be denied is that at the time of [...]

I couldn’t resist reproducing this letter from the latest edition of the Weekly Worker:

How much?
David Lee says that no-one should be allowed to earn more than £75,000 a year (Letters, December 15). Surely, no-one would need that much. Why not provide all citizens with a free supply of basic essentials – eg, bread, eggs, potatoes, [...]

If you want reassurance that Richard Seymour and his fellow SWPers will never come close to achieving power in anything resembling a democracy, read his latest post at Lenin’s Tomb venting his contempt-verging-on-hatred for, um, British soldiers serving in Afghanistan and their wives.
The Military Wives Choir is concentrated evil. It is vicious, stupid and [...]

It isn’t only Chavez who regrets the fall of Gaddafi.
The Workers’ Revolutionary Party – a rape cult funded by Gaddafi whose members once included Bob Pitt and Vanessa Redgrave – has really outdone itself:
COLONEL Gadaffi was yesterday badly wounded by a NATO air attack on a convoy of vehicles outside the city of Sirte.
It was [...]

The Weekly Worker, newspaper of our favorite far-Left groupuscule, the Communist Party of Great Britain, reports on the latest Internal Bulletin of the Socialist Workers Party:
The [Central Committee] describes how it hopes to influence events: “The tiny cog of the revolutionary left cannot turn the giant cog of the TUC. But we are in a [...]

A reason that many on the democratic left detest Trotskyists is the latter give the former a bad name. The pejorative “loony left” is aptly applied to Trotskyists. There was a good reason why both Michael Foot and Neil Kinnock, as 1980s leaders of the Labour Party, wanted the Trotskyists of Militant out of the [...]