I know this is a long shot but if there's anyone whose still associated with the IMT who is considering leaving..
Even if we had beef in the past I'm open to talking.
Unfortunately the people with the most doubts often double down the hardest....
#AreYouACommunist
@misanderist
@playmints
COMPLETELY irrelevant but those are very basic acrylics that would take probably about an hour and twenty minutes.
In the U.S., at least, they aren't a specifically expensive luxury. But they are a luxury, nonetheless.
@SpeaksAngie
Like this reminds me of a right winger using any opportunity to shittily critique the Left. I doubt this person is perfect but why use this moment of distress as an opportunity to hop on a rant hinging on generational politics..?
I'm leaving after four years in the International Marxist Tendency also known as Socialist Revolution - IMT. I respectfully ask everybody read this document with an open mind. We cannot be complacent.
"This isn't a social club. It's a revolutionary organization. This isn't a "safe space."
"Anyway, the social aspect is super important so make sure to invite contacts out to drink after events! Let's go recruit more college kids!"
Fightback (
#InternationalMarxistTendency
) edits abuser out of photo. They had this person who had been reported for alienating allies of the org and members alike doing high profile union work and Indigenous Solidarity work.
@alexg_Fightback
What's up with this?
@AndromedaPip
I feel like instead of complaining about people not being able to digest thousands of pages we should offer support/reading groups in order to encourage them instead of just mocking them.
@vthe_j
A "taboo on the recognition of the existence of women" is, in fact, TERF apologia. This tendency has been on the rise in the IMT for awhile now so maybe you'll come to terms with it as it becomes even more apparent.
@constans
I don't like PSL but you're clearly just advocating for social chauvinism.
Liberals keep an eye out indeed because your half-assed demands won't hold water with anyone in the coming years. :)
Congratulations
@H66539902Carter
for being the first IMT member to publicly confirm that Alex Grant was, in fact, expelled for being a sex pest. I guess your keepers should make their hush orders more explicit next time.
It's almost like we weren't lying when we said the IMT is concealing the social conservatism of its leaders! For a long time they would (and in certain local areas) are advertising specifically to queer people and other marginalized groups.
For the last four months (The article was edited to reflect this) I've been a sympathizer. I did not take the time to go through the "democratic process" because of a lot of reasons. Some of which I am not at liberty to release publicly. (1/?)
I just wanted to say to any IMT member scanning my page (hello full timers <3 ) that I will not stop trying to make your recruitment efforts as difficult as possible. You can keep building your org without answering for what has happened (1/2)
When I was in the IMT one of the last events I attended was us meeting in the park reading from a list of tips and tricks to being successful selling papers. The comrade who provided this document remarked that they got these tips from being in a MLM scam.
#communismoncampus
@ward0403
@badtasticb
This is a super cringe take. People who are so alienated from the average experience of working class people that they aren't even socialized enough to cut vegetables:| stop making excuses for this grifter family
TO SOCIALIST APPEAL MEMBERS
IT IS NOT NORMAL FOR AN ORG TO TAKE 5% TO 10% (or even sometimes 20%) OF YOUR MONTHLY EARNINGS.
#internationalmarxisttendency
@DeepSohelia_
So, what? You expect the average person to dedicate their lives before being convinced by your arguments that as political leadership you're even worth your salt? Because they like dialectics? In what world is this individualistic?
@CommieTendency
Literally nobody in any of their letters denounce Marxism. They denounce endangering comrades, secret voting against people who are gonna fight to change thing internally, and a culture where pausing the activity of someone under active investigation for SA/DV is (1/2)
When I was in the IMT I was discouraged from having a small LGBT Leftists Facebook group. It was literally just a networking tool I was putting together and I was told to shut it down or give it to someone else.
Enjoy screenshots of one of the people who have been going hardest against the victims of Fightback Canada () being supportive of Jamie back in May. What happened, Hantz?
#InternationalMarxistTendency
@CoryBooker
“During the lifetime of great revolutionaries, the oppressing classes constantly hounded them, received their theories with the most savage malice, the most furious hatred and the most unscrupulous campaigns of lies and slander..." (1/?)
Abusers can potentially become members again. But people who left over the mishandling of abuse aren't even Marxists according to Fightback ()
#internationalmarxisttendency
As the dust settles it seems many IMTers who very vocally defended the org in the face of the recent scandal seem to find it weighing on their minds. Especially as the org publicly brought a known abuser back into political work.
IMT leadership being totally cool with Alex Grant dating a bunch of young members over the years and getting fucked up with them until his alcoholism peaked and he completely went off the rails is definitely not the issue here.
#AreYouaCommunist
#InternationalMarxistTendency
the IMT created the liquidationists that they invented when all of this first started. All we wanted was for some real accountability to be taken. Their campaign against the victims, and their out-of-touch responses has put on display how out of their depth they are.
#revfest2022
@CoryBooker
After their death, attempts are made to convert them into harmless icons, to canonize them, so to say, and to hallow their names to a certain extent for the ‘consolation’ of the oppressed classes..." (2/3)
When I was in the IMT a current full timer confided in me that upon being at his first IMT fundraiser he started hyperventilating because they were asking members to donate thousands in almost like a bid of sorts. (1/2)
#communismoncampus
@House_Nerdling
@ms_sasha_frost
Your guys' ability to instantly dismiss someone because they left is UNHEALTHY. Read the letter. Consider what's actually being said. Be intellectually honest with yourself and others instead of mindlessly defending the leadership.
#IMU22
Man IMT members don't like if you go on your backup accounts and actually clarify what happened while they blatantly lie to people.
"They never named anyone!"
"THE ABUSERS WERE EXPELLED!"
These are lies. Bold faced lies.
#communismoncampus
#internationalmarxisttendency
How can IMT members not see how 90% of the pro-EC arguments are literal straw men ? Utter nonsense.
Nobody is talking about a safe space. Nobody is saying pubs inherently are bad. Your leaders are writing addresses to boogeymen that never existed to begin with.
Expelling good ✔️
The International leadership of him asserting people must take the Canadian EC at their word when the scandal broke❌
Leadership ignoring Alex Grant dating a bunch of members ❌
Leadership being silent on the issue ❌
WE NEED TO OPPOSE ANTISEMITIC RIGHT WINGERS ATTEMPTING TO CO-OPT THIS MOMENT IN ORDER TO PROMOTE THEIR BULLSHIT CONSPIRACIES.
ANTI-ZIONISM IS NOT ANTISEMITIC, AND WE NEED TO DEFEND OUR JEWISH COMRADES.
KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR THESE TYPES BOTH ONLINE AND IRL
#FreePalestine
I do agree that if you're going to arm yourself you need to be ready to consistently practice and it has to programmatically be tied to something. But maybe instead of discouraging people because they aren't immediately doing it right rather than using this fact as a positive
"You guys let branch be hosted at the house of someone under investigation for SA/DV."
"BRANCH MEMBERS CONSENTED AND THE VICTIM CONSENTED!" (a lie, mind you)
Even if this were true-- why would that even be a fucking option? What are IMT members smoking?
But one day you'll realize that your tone deaf, out-of-touch approach to this entire mishandling of accusations will have made you social pariahs within the movement. My goal is to let EVERYONE know what you have done. So good luck you absolute fucking cowards.
#communismoncampus
@HillaryMonahan
Really my only critique of the film is that the mom's actions are genuinely bizarre. She's just kind of a weirdly written character lmao
Even though I miss some people I'm not willing to compromise my principles. I know what I really miss is a time when I thought the people I called my comrades had integrity.
We are not vulnerable, we are bolsheviks. We can change our environment.... We don't need people trained in therapy or conflict resolution, we need people trained in Bolshevism and Marxism" Adam booth
#IMTWC2023
The long time editor of the Canadian section of the International Marxist Tendency has suddenly disappeared? I wonder why that is
#IMTWorldCongress2023
"Liberty means the collective development of all human beings, free from domination. It consists of the power to do whatever does not injure another. It is the Promethean drive of humanity that pushes us beyond the limits seemingly set by nature, -"
🧵 In response to the growing reactionary movement against transgender rights, Marxist Unity Group presents this statement outlining a socialist approach to fighting the right and defending trans communities:
this is an internal IMT speech by fred weston made at a 2021 IEC meeting that reads like a transcription of a ben shapiro video. it isn’t marxist to complain about there being “64 different terms for different types of gender”, it’s just socially conservative
It's hilarious to me how intently the IMT tries to recruit queer people only for them to lash our whenever those same queer people have any even slightly differing input about queer issues. :^)
You can be skeptical of an organization all you want but by providing them funds and passive support you are not being a neutral spectator. You are not a neutral third party when it comes to the toxic bullshit they allow to happen behind closed doors. You are complicit. :)
@CoryBooker
"and with the object of duping the latter, while at the same time robbing the revolutionary theory of its substance, blunting its revolutionary edge and vulgarizing it.” —V.I. Lenin in The State and Revolution
IMT members are very fond of using identity politics when it suits them. Though usually it's them tokenizing their non-white/not male members.
In this case this legitimately reminds me of people using idpol to defend bigoted politicians.
#internationalmarxisttendency