No, no, no. The ideology is that you need to deliver the Far, Far, Far Right government so that the whole system collapses and everyone joins in the Pure Socialist Revolution. The fact that every tim… (View Post)

In regular life - I think he was the only one. Apart from an activist type who got herself arrested in Turkey back when it was run by the military. As a student, I was helping run the student union. … (View Post)

It's may also be the difference between the rank and file and the Senior Management Team (SMT). The SMT are uniformly (ha!) held in contempt by the rank and file. The classic was the senior offi… (View Post)

OK smarty pants. If setting up parties is so easy, what colour should the party supplied pagers be? (View Post)

The history of the ultra-left is that they will make any accommodation, any compromise with nutcase variant Islam to try and stay with them. Everyone else is expendable. Saw this at UCL in the 90s. N… (View Post)