For those interested in discussing the incorrect internal life of the revolutionary left groups and the wrong perspectives we all shared over the past two to three decades please check out the blog weknowwhatsup.blogspot.com. There you will find a number of documents from the Workers International Network which is a group of us trying to learn the lessons of the past and from our own mistakes. I was the first member of the CWI, then Militant, in Southern Ireland in 1970. I was the first full timer in the organization in all of Ireland. When I left in 1983 it had around 400 members. Now it has around 100 or slightly more. Some serious mistakes were mad.
I was partly responsible for some of the mistakes that were made. I would be interested in discussing these. I was expelled from the CWI in 1996. People like Joe Higgins supported this expulsion in order to protect their own positions. There are more people who consider themselves revolutionary socialists outside the left groups than inside them. There is something seriously wrong with the revolutionary left.
John Throne.