It’s Not Me, It’s You

Behind stamp-collecting, rock climbing, and the renovation of classic cars, following the colourful debates which excite the Trotskyite/Stalinist left is a favoured hobby of mine. Hours have been wasted trawling the comment section of Socialist Unity articles and oddly titled threads on RevLeft – ‘A Pan-Celtic Marxist-Leninist-Maoist organization…Anyone interested?’. The joy of witnessing the vitriol which [...]

The C-Word and The Ability to Hide Behind Nonsense

The internet is a joyful thing. Unless of course you’re an Arabian government or one of the few squares who values sanity, moderation and the relative protection the non-internet-sphere offers from idiots. So, allow me to introduce you to what is being referred to as either The C-word-gate or C*nt-gate, depending on how naughty you are. Laurie [...]

On Trots

A response to this article (In Defence of Trots) by Tami Peterson over at ‘The Great Unrest’. Tami is studying a Masters of Research in Social and Political Theory at Birkbeck, and is Anti-Rasicm and Anti-Fascism Officer at Birkbeck SU and on the NUS LGBT Committe. It also deals with the role of the pamphlet in [...]