On Feb 9, 2009, at 11:50 AM, James Heartfield wrote:
> What can I say? I was in the British RCP, which was Trotskyist in
> origin, rather than Maoist. We tried our best, but it was not good
> enough. Of course there are always temptations to sustain the
> organisation beyond its justification (making a revolution), but
> looking at the alternative of slogging it out, I think
> liquidationism was the right course.
But the RCP has something of an afterlife through Spiked! and The Institute of Ideas, no? Aren't most of the personnel alumni of the RCP? And there still seems to be something of a party line.
Doug