I’m now out of the police station. Still waiting for my colleagues.
Make no mistake. There is no longer a right to peaceful protest in the UK.
I have been told many times the monarch is there to defend our freedoms. Now our freedoms are under attack in his name.
We are appalled by the pictures coming out of London this morning where peaceful anti-monarchy protestors are being arrested and having placards confiscated by police.
Solidarity with @RepublicStaff and others exercising their democratic right to protest.
Stay safe everyone.
@MustBeTheHero Lenin's insults came from his understanding of the bourgeois intelligencia as both the leadership and the natural enemy of the advanced workers. If the bourgeoisie fought each other hard enough, the workers could rise with confidence to the top of their own party and state.
@MustBeTheHero "[He] is too coarse and this defect, although quite tolerable in our midst and in dealing among us Communists, becomes intolerable in a Secretary-General"
@MustBeTheHero "Why," he demanded, "should we bother to reply to Kautsky? He would reply to us, and we would have to reply to his reply. There's no end to that. It will be quite enough for us to announce that Kautsky is a traitor to the working class, and everyone will understand everything."
“he is an absolute ignoramus, who has never learnt anything or even read any Party history, but merely happened to land in liquidationist circles where going about in the nude is considered the “right” thing to do as far as knowledge of the Party and everything it stands for”
“The obliging Trotsky is more dangerous than an enemy! Trotsky could produce no proof, except “private conversations” (i. e., simply gossip, on which Trotsky always subsists)”
“Admittedly, it would have been difficult for her to have revealed the hopelessness of her position more saliently than she has done in this particular instance.”