Yeah, now you mention it, I could have been confusing the depicted organisation with the one in the Griffiths play.
You'll never guess what they have to say about Russell Brand.The SEPs denunciation of this book is truly despicable.
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s <em>The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism</em>
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.www.wsws.org
I read about half of it before realising it was unreasonably lengthy, but it was full of praise for his "exceptional qualities as a political leader" and not one reference to rape or sexual abuse. I did a search for relevant terms in case it mentioned them later but no.
If they believe that it was a smear that he was a serial rapist, at least come out and make that case, don't just ignore it. It gives the impression that they simply don't consider him being a rapist to be relevant or worth mentioning. Really makes me wonder about what skeletons David North has in his closet. I remember WSWS doing a very weirdly ardent defense of Roman Polanski too.
The Griffiths play does get a fair bit of discussion in that bonkers WSWS review:
"If Gerry Healy was so bad, how come Laurence Olivier played a character based on him?" is certainly an inventive line of argument.
The SEPs denunciation of this book is truly despicable.
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s <em>The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism</em>
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.www.wsws.org
I read about half of it before realising it was unreasonably lengthy, but it was full of praise for his "exceptional qualities as a political leader" and not one reference to rape or sexual abuse. I did a search for relevant terms in case it mentioned them later but no.
If they believe that it was a smear that he was a serial rapist, at least come out and make that case, don't just ignore it. It gives the impression that they simply don't consider him being a rapist to be relevant or worth mentioning. Really makes me wonder about what skeletons David North has in his closet. I remember WSWS doing a very weirdly ardent defense of Roman Polanski too.
Wow. That is one weird and wrong "review". I particularly enjoyed the tangent about the effort involved in academic publishing.The SEPs denunciation of this book is truly despicable.
Biography as demonology: Aidan Beatty’s <em>The Party is Always Right: The Untold Story of Gerry Healy and British Trotskyism</em>
Aidan Beatty's new book is not a biography, but rather a political diatribe against Gerry Healy and Trotskyism.www.wsws.org
I read about half of it before realising it was unreasonably lengthy, but it was full of praise for his "exceptional qualities as a political leader" and not one reference to rape or sexual abuse. I did a search for relevant terms in case it mentioned them later but no.
If they believe that it was a smear that he was a serial rapist, at least come out and make that case, don't just ignore it. It gives the impression that they simply don't consider him being a rapist to be relevant or worth mentioning. Really makes me wonder about what skeletons David North has in his closet. I remember WSWS doing a very weirdly ardent defense of Roman Polanski too.
I notice that your post does not reference the three-volume collection of Trotsky’s writings on Britain, which was published by New Park, the publishing house of the Workers Revolutionary Party, in the 1970s.
Sorry. I'm too busy with writing an academic book.I notice that your post does not reference the three-volume collection of Trotsky’s writings on Britain, which was published by New Park, the publishing house of the Workers Revolutionary Party, in the 1970s.
A crude diatribe against Trotskyism and its historic efforts to construct a revolutionary party rooted in Marxist theory and based on the working class, by any chance?
Has he ever taken a ferry across the Mersey?You can scoff but Chris Marsden is a leading member of the Socialist Equality Party in the UK.
I think the IMG normally preserved the use of cattle prods for those who fell asleep when forced to read Ernest Mandel
Someone associated with the IMG once told me I would be put up against a wall and shot, after the Revolution. Because I disagreed with him about something. (Not sure that was official group policy).
I would have thought that he would be a Birkenhead defencist.
Ah, yes, reading books was something that Cliffites found very boring.
In my experience, SWP members were allergic to reading the writings of others on the left, and were not unknown to adopt an anti-intellectual stance when interacting with others on the left.
i've found that to be true of every social group i've ever been involved with.
I found Mandel’s brief introduction to Marxist economic theory very good. [I can’t recall the exact title at the moment, and I cannot find my copy].
The chapter on the labour of theory of value looks to be a little too simple.
