Miscellaneous Trot gossip

Posted on Tuesday 26 June, 2007
Filed Under Trotskyism

 

Here’s an intriguing tale from the Moscow Times website. It seems that the webmaster of the residual Russian CP is guilty of ideological deviationism, 1930s style:

Anatoly Baranov, editor of the party’s web site, has been plotting to subvert party policy to reflect “the interests of pro-Western forces,” the party’s Central Audit Committee said a statement posted on the party’s web site over the weekend.

The committee is a body within the Communist Party that monitors the ideological purity of party members.

“The ‘Baranov group’ stubbornly pushes the Communist Party from the victorious Leninist path onto the false Trotskyist path of a rapid revolution, effectively carried out in the interests of the pro-Western bourgeoisie, rather than in the interests of the Russian people, and leading to the total occupation of Russia by NATO forces,” the committee’s statement said.

Baranov used the party’s Internet resources to disseminate Trotskyist views with the ultimate aim of discrediting the party, the statement said. It added that Baranov and his allies showed “clear signs of Trotskyism, as defined by J.V. Stalin in his article ‘Trotskyism and Leninism.’”

Baranov immediately denied the charges and dismissed them as a pro-Kremlin plot to discredit the Communists.

Fascist wrecker! Anybody got the background details on this one?

Meanwhile, it looks like the Automobile Association-Saga merger – it’s the lead story in Financial Times today – equals ker-chiiing! time for one British former comrade:

AA chief executive Tim Parker, a former Trotskyite and Labour member who now advises the Tory party, was reported to be in line to collect £80million, although the firm said later it would be “nearer £40million”.

Me, I never begrudge old lefties a decent pay-day. Parker is an ex-WRPer, I’m told. Any readers remember him from his paper-selling years?

<<Go back

Comments