Informants infiltrate British activist groups at high levels

At least one of them, Mark Stone (who was paid £100,000 a year by police), spent seven years as a leader of the organization he was informing on.

This of course, can and does happen in the States. Consider the multitude of supposed revolutionary Marxist parties here in the US. Now that a real life [...]

Legoland and the far left

Dave Riley has a thoughtful essay on the tendency of the far left to build castles of rhetoric based on their interpretation of Marxism and to defend it against all other factions.

The complication being that inasmuch as you are isolated from the main business of society you tend to enclose and turn inwards [...]

War, what is it good for? Stopping the recession! Say it again

Washington’s Blog has been running a provocative series of posts about the possibility the US might start a war to get out of the recession. He thinks the argument is bogus, that war in fact creates recessions rather than ending them, but that hasn’t stopped such wars from occuring in the past. In other [...]

Far left response to Iran protests. Crickets

The response of the far left parties to the Iran protests has been either silence, a noncommittal recitation of the facts, or an accusation that US machinations are or will be involved. None of them, to my knowledge, have endorsed the protests. Why is this?

Mass protests erupt throughout Iran in opposition to an [...]