Lenin lives! Towards a Revolutionary Communist Party! - Socialist Appeal
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This Sunday marks the 100th anniversary since the death of Lenin – the inspiring leader of the Russian Revolution. With capitalism in turmoil, in Britain and worldwide, now is the time to continue Lenin’s legacy, and build the forces of communism.

I don’t know if anyone has shared this already since it has been in the works for a couple of months now and they still do not plan to become a thing until May, but anyway.

The Socialist Party (formerly known as Militant) must be feeling pretty vindicated right now since Socialist Appeal has finally migrated away from entry-ism after being forcefully expelled from the Labour party (again).

I wish them luck, but I wish TUSC was still around. They built up a pretty big movement before pivoting around Corbyn and willingly stepping aside from all UK elections for a couple of years. I don’t know where their organisers are now, I haven’t seen them around in a while and presume they have mostly moved on to other things.

Socialist Appeal are not bad, and I enjoyed going to their annual Revolution festival in London. It is a shame that they come from the British Trot school of refusing to acknowledge anything good that Stalin did ever in 30 years of power in the USSR but probably the best we are gonna get.

If you live in the UK and you don’t do so already, it is worth supporting the orgs that are providing us with independent news, whether it is Socialist Appeal, The Socialist, The Morning Star (the CPB newspaper not the financial website) or Novarra Media. There are worse places to spend your money.

  • idkmybffjoeysteel [he/him]@hexbear.netOPEnglish
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    9 months ago

    I don’t know if it is a good idea to avoid the largest Marxist org in the UK even if it has the problems you have said. At the very least they provide a left voice, even if limited, and an opportunity for networking in real life.

    The last time I tried to find an inoffensive Marxist org in the UK, everybody was promoting Red Fightback, who were then criticised for a bunch of practical reasons, soon mired in controversy themselves and then finally split up due to infighting.

    We have a lot of co-opted, ineffective and toothless leftist orgs in the UK, and most of them are toothless, ineffective and problematic.

    • Maoo [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      9 months ago

      Joining a large org that wastes your time and even abuses you is not better than joining a small org that wastes your time and even abuses you.

      If you want to join a cult, have a very limited reading list, do pointless or even counterproductive things, and then risk losing your entire social circle when you realize it’s bullshit, and even have a decent chance of being sexually abused and then have it get covered up, then by all means join an IMT-associated group.