Communism and the Conservatives.

 

Revolutionary Communist - Baroness Fox of Buckley

Maggie Thatcher was as phoney as her accent. What became known as "Thatcherism', in the early days, was largely down to the influence of a former Jewish Communist Party member called Alfred Sherman, who had fought with the International Brigades in the Spanish Civil War. He was expelled from the Communist Party for 'Titoist devationism' and later joined the Conservative Party. Sherman co-founded the Centre for Policy Studies (CPS) in 1974 with Sir Keith Joseph and Margaret Thatcher. Sherman provided Maggie with the strategy for winning the Tory leadership and for winning the general election in 1979. He also supplied her with plenty of ideas.

Munira Mirza, who was head of policy in Boris Johnson's Conservative government, had also been a member of the Trotskyist, Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP). She co-authored the 2019 Conservative Party manifesto. In 2020, Boris Johnson nominated Claire Fox for a peerage. She's now Baroness Fox of Buckley. Foxy, had also been a member of the RCP from her student days at Warwick University and was a regular writer for the RCP magazine, 'Living Marxism'. Foxy had been opposed to the institution called the House of Lords and had wanted to abolish it. She was also a supporter of the IRA and had defended the IRA's action in carrying out the Warrington bombings that killed two children. She later joined the Brexit Party and became an MEP with Nigel Farage. I doubt that Boris Johnson would've have known Claire Fox, but Mirza certainly knew her.

Both Foxy and Mirza, were acolytes of the Hungarian Marxist academic, Frank Furedi, who founded the RCP and was the godfather of the cult. Furedi also had links with the CPS, and had written publications for the right-wing think-tank. The English journalist, George Monbiot, described the RCP as "entryists" who enter an organisation to take it over. They were rather like the parasitic wasp, Glyptapanteles, whose females inject their eggs into living caterpillars and feed on their body fluids.

Monbiot says that from being a Trotskyist splinter group in the 1970s, the RCP has swung from the distant fringes of the left to the extremities of the pro-corporate libertarian right and has colonised, crucial sections of the British establishment. Many leading RCP members, who once wrote for Living Marxism, now write for the right-wing British press. They also write for the pro-Israeli anti-environmentalist, Euro-sceptic, online magazine, called Spiked.