I live in the UK and nearly every older Communist you meet is a Trot and all the protests that I've been to that have had communists at them were mostly Trot orgs but online everyone just seems to shit on them for no clear reason. Am I missing something? Or is it just regular leftist infighting

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    4 years ago

    Personal experiences with the IMT as well as checking their websites has pretty much shown me that they are also more than a little casually transphobic, refusing to publish any purely supportive articles but instead posting endless criticisms of "the movement" or "queer theory" where basically inbetween single sentence support they denounce everything and say that the only way forward is for the trans community to subsume themselves into the workers movements. In at least one case they flat out called campaigns to get trans women treated equally to cis women within Labour "a waste of time".

    Thats not to say that they never write supportive articles, there are a few, not more than you can count on one hand, but you'd never know since as far as I can tell they do not tag those articles with anything so even if you enter their categories for gender issues you cant find any of the supportive articles, only the criticisms. The supportive articles are also never highlighted on the international page even when trivial bullshit like fundraising the Trotsky museum makes it on at the same time as articles about the UK/US war against trans people are buried in national websites.