"It is a total falsehood to say that the SWP supported Milosovic ."

Is it? Not according to the SWPers I spoke to in the streets of Manchester during the Balkan wars of the 90s (and before the US/UK attacks). They seemed to me to be deliberately ignoring the brutal nature of what was going on in the former Yugoslavia, and, as far as I could make out, through the haze of lefty verbiage and double-speak, seemed to think that UK/Europe should keep its nose out and allow 'ethnic cleansing', mass murder and rape etc. to rage unchecked on its doorstep.

Also, having read some of Trotsky's journalism from the Balkan wars of the early 20th century, I don't even think that they were being true to the principles of their founder.

To my mind, the trouble with a lot of these groups on the Left, is that they get so lost in a maze of ideology, (often spurious) 'analysis' and ridiculous self-importance that they lose sight of the bleeding obvious ... bit like the way in which the Labour Party has persuaded itself that it needs to support the wilder excesses of Capitalism and the 'Free Market'.