Recently I blogged about the bungled attempted assassination of Trotsky that took place in Mexico in 1940, a few months before the successful one happened. It was both incompetent and nasty, so much so that it would make a good … Continue reading →
What is Communism and hard-left socialism like? A lot of analogies have been made over the years, but in view of its stupendous death toll it can perhaps be best compared to a genetically-engineered virus which some scientists swear will … Continue reading →
The killer of Trotsky, Ramon Mercader, refused to admit that he had been hired by Stalin to commit the murder: Even after his identity had been established fingerprints, he refused to admit who he was or why he had come … Continue reading →
Remember when when the Berlin Wall fell, and then the USSR? Many right-wingers, and many non-political people, said this is the end of the left. Others, however, warned that leftists don’t stop being leftists, and plotting and agitating against freedom, … Continue reading →
According to Spiked Online Corbyn is starting to look like a dangerous leftist with his latest media proposals: No sooner had excerpts from the Labour leader’s proposals been released in advance than Corbyn’s online fan club were cheering them to … Continue reading →
Regarding my post from last week about Lenin’s Red Terror (which he made no effort to hide, and every effort to publicize to the public at large), you may be wondering whether any of Lenin’s colleagues opposed the Red Terror? … Continue reading →
Literally (in 1918): Here is Zinoviev addressing a gathering of Communists two weeks after the launching of the Red Terror: “We must carry along with us 90 million out of the 100 million of Soviet Russia’s inhabitants. As for the … Continue reading →
According to the editor of Spiked, the right-wingers who criticised Ash Sarkar (the woman who said to Piers Morgan, ‘I’m literally a Communist, you idiot’ on breakfast TV) are as bad as Ash Sarker herself. ‘It’s the living, breathing definition … Continue reading →
Why did everything change after Vladdy Ulyanov? How did he make the world worse even after his immediate impact in the USSR was over? It’s sometimes said that the reason is that he was so utterly ruthless. But history is … Continue reading →
Raedwald seems sceptical about the UN Human Rights Council and the nations on it, such as Venezuela: THE POL POT PRIZE FOR POPULATION DEGRADATION The judges were faced with a strong field of candidates and shortlisting was a difficult process. … Continue reading →
Recently I tweeted this: I’m not going to call lefties ‘lefties’ any more. It suggests there’s something still slightly loveable about them, or that I still feel some affection for them, despite our differences. But those days are long gone. … Continue reading →
I spent all of yesterday in a mostly useless workshop, of the sort I had hoped I’d left behind when I got out of academia. My favourite bit was when a self-righteous left-wing woman said, “When I hear people talking … Continue reading →
Philby. Burgess. Maclean. Anthony Blunt. George Blake. John Cairncross. Goronwy Rees. Edith Tudor-Hart. Arthur Wynn. David Floyd. Percy Glading. Bob Stewart. John Symonds. Dave Springhall. Have we uncovered all the British Communist spies and traitors? Hardly. The biggest one of … Continue reading →
I don’t think it’s well-known that the Germans could have crushed the Russian Bolshevik government in its early days, but chose not to. The Bolsheviks had a tentative grip on power, and Russia was in chaos. The Germans debated whether … Continue reading →
