It's the so-called 'democratic centralism' of the SWP I struggle with - too much centralism and too little democracy, IMO.

And don't all Trotskyist organisations claim to be the 'revolutionary vanguard of the working class' - including the SWP? Nothing like a little humility, eh?

And how come there's so bloody many of these grouplets? And what ever happened to the Sparticists? They were madder than a bag of hornets! And after all the scandals didn't the WRP's Gerry Healey simply swap cults with the Baghwan? And what about that lot who produced reams of position papers on the revolutionary significance of UFOs? And why did the SWP get into bed with Gorgeous George? Were they seduced by the, erm, glamour? Or was it more of the old "opportunism" they're so famous for?

I think we should be told!

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