I cannot resist posting this rant on the Workers Liberty website about “Left 
unity? Yes! But why is the “left” divided now?”.The author slags off the SWP, Socialist Party and Respect (quite rightly of course) for their internal repression of dissidents. Quoting Marx and Lenin to bolster the case. The author accuses them of being “Stalinists” not true “Trotskyites” which will no doubt go down very badly (with Stalinists).
Some other highlights:-
This is a “left” so confused that it let itself be led into a popular front with Islamist clerical fascists, with the tainted mercenary George Galloway as one of its chief tribunes!
narrow, persecuting, heresy hunting religious sect
Marx says - like everyone who maintains he has a panacea for the sufferings of the masses in his pocket... gave his agitation from the outset a religious and sectarian character. Every sect is in fact religious...
They do not follow Lenin’s ideas, but at best those foisted on the Communist Parties by Zinoviev and then Stalin in the 1920s.
the groups not only control or stifle elements of such an approach within their own ranks, but also cultivate and foment extreme hostility and hatred
they teach them dogmas, mythical histories and fictitious political genealogies about themselves.
The pseudo-”Leninist” sect regime is immensely wasteful. It works to create splits out of every dispute
The real joke is of course that the author of this post has obviously no idea whatsoever, that their views come over as nasty, as sectarian and as malevolent as anything the Galloway, SPEW and the SWP have ever put out. Which is surprising, since apart from one idiot I have come across, the WL members overall have usually been quite thoughtful and constructive?
Obviously, it goes without saying that they are all absolutely bonkers! (in my view of course)
