"As a CP member, I attended many demonstrations, It was one step forward and two back."
It would be with the CP - Did you ever read 'The British Road to Socialism" a cross between Alice in Wonderland and and Melina Mercouri's version of the Greek Tragedies in 'Never on Sunday'?
The people you are so sneery about were largely non-aligned and demonstrated against what they considered unjust - I find your attitude to Blair Peach, who was murdered while opposing racism, beneath contempt.
I'll be honest; I've known a number of C.P. members in my time and I've never met one who comes anywhere near your views on homosexuality, immigration and your defence of the Church and 'thye institute of marriage and traditional family values' (now there's a couple of establishment terms for you)
If that's what was representative of the C.P. - thank whoever that they never won office
Still misusing the term 'liberalism' I see.
Jim Carroll