Decoding the left: what does “patiently explain” really mean?
Lenin is said to have told Communists that a good part of their work is to “patiently explain” their position to the masses. Warning against […]
The Left
Simon Pirani: eyewitness to the death of the WRP
I am very grateful to Simon Pirani who has sent me this piece on how the 1985 crisis inside of the Workers Revolutionary Party (WRP) led […]
The SWP crisis: accounts and resources
* updates at end of post, generally most recent last * I hadn’t really intended to write anything on this. So I won’t. However, lots […]
The origins of the slate system
This post is the result of a collision of two very narrow interests of mine. The geekery of electoral systems and the Kremlinology of the […]