Trotskyism

And that left, it disappeared almost overnight.

It's really important to keep in mind that what was called the socialist left coming out of the 80s and 90s, mostly post-Trotskyists, but also some post-Maoists, they immediately became either totally marginal or dissolved with the emergence of Bernie Sanders.

Partly it was because there was such a rush of people into the DSA that it made the others seem trivial in size, but it also triggered an internal crisis in many of these organizations where some proportion of the activists who were sincere and who saw what was happening said, look, we need to join the Sanders moment right now.

And then the diehards insisted that he still wasn't good enough or that he wasn't right on this issue or that issue.

the movement's next round of protests followed on October 24th, with 70,000 police officers deployed across the country.

Statements from trade unions, social media posts, and the far left, as well as foreign flags and slogans seen and heard at the protests, show that the movement was backed and promoted by a range of left and far left actors, including LFI lawmakers, Trotskyist groups, and activists linked to political Islam.

Now since October 1st, the French government has blamed France Unbowed , a hard-left party led by Jean-Luc Mélenchon, for the upheaval, calling it a maneuver organized by LFI and its ultra-left proxies.

Melenchon, LFI's presidential candidate and a former deputy of the National Assembly, once belonged to the International Communist Organization and has voiced support for socialist regimes, including those of China, Cuba, and Venezuela.

At age 14, he interned for LFI lawmaker David Garrard, who is now the mayor of Roubaix.

He later ran on an LFI-backed slate in March's municipal elections and appeared alongside Boyard on a panel at the party's most recent summer conference.

Among the groups active in the blockades was Permanent Revolution, a Trotskyist organization that emerged from a 2021 split within the new anti-capitalist party.

Its student wing, the Raised Fist, called for a black week of school blockades beginning on October 5th.

Irving Kristol.

They're all from the Trotskyite neoconservative camp, or what would become neoconservativism.

Now, I want to mention dialectics because the Soviet Empire was also an empire of reason.

Now, keep that in mind.

RAND would study social science, they would study economics, and all areas of life to come with it.

Remember, the RAND Corporation is populated by...

Neo-Trotskyites, who are neocons.

Neocons are neo-Trotskyites, right? They became influenced by Leo Strauss and other thinkers and took on a less commie attitude.

He also became involved in tenant organizing with the Southside Tenants Organization, which introduced her to Chicago's Black community and the dynamics of protest organizing.

As it turned out, the Southside Tenants Organization was actually a front for the newly founded Workers' Party, one of the two most significant groupings in the fledgling American Trotskyist movement.

Grace would soon become a party member, commencing a decade-long stint as a Trotskyist.

She eventually found a political home in a dissident formation within the Workers' Party, known as the Johnson-Forrest Tendency.

We all know that you are as biased as the day is long.

And your bias takes us down the road to, I don't know, Trotskyism or Stalinism.

Your choice.

Over the course of the past few days, we've seen calls from all sides of the government.

So that was less than 0.2% of the votes.

So these four slates, there were two Stalinist slates, two Trotskyist slates.

They were not at all seen by the working classes as a...

Incredible alternative to Lula, basically.

So I guess what would you have to say to the Brazilian left? Maybe that's too broad, but like in terms of its problems.

Yeah.

Yeah, I think the first round of the elections was significant because in the sense that there were four slates, first of all, four slates claiming to be communist, you know, either Stalinist or Trotskyist.

Why didn't they try to unite to become like a credible working class alternative? Because they did not see that this was the central priority.

And that's how the Nazis did it.

That's how the Trotskyites did it.

That's how the Bolsheviks did it.

That's how all fascists, communists, and dictators operate.

Obviously, racism would be an obvious thing, fascism.

But he was relatively... ambiguous if you like about what exactly he was for other than you know he was for the overthrow of Samosa the dictator in Nicaragua and supported the Nicaraguan revolution but on other things he was a lot less specific whereas the Redskins were a band that was quite clear what they were about two of the leading members there was only really three of them but two of the leading members were members of the socialist workers party which is a Trotskyist party in Britain so that was kind of why I wrote the book and I was really sort of testing out if you have a much more hardcore if you like in specific form of politics that you're trying to get across in your music I was really testing out the issue how effective is that and to cut a long story short when I took testimony for the research for the book I found out that Of the people that were fans and followers of the Redskins, some joined the Socialist Workers' Party, the Trotskyist party I mentioned.

Others joined the Labour Party when it actually still had a left-wing kind of side to it.

Others joined the Communist Party, or many others who were already on the left were sustained in their... their willingness, their ability, their confidence to remain on the left.