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Coming soon to eBay: the ice-pick that killed Leon Trotsky.
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Coming soon to eBay: the ice-pick that killed Leon Trotsky.
The thinking Laborite would as lief be found in bed with a cobra as in a committee room armed with "arguments" from the Tory press." Truth, Perth, 19 June 1915.
Tremendously popular, and for good reason. Chris Sheil sets the ball in motion with interesting posts, and the comments threads stretch into the hundreds without descending into Blairite rubbish.
Smart, sexy, socialist. What more could you want?
Alan Grieve's analysis is astute, and his psephology is spectacular.
Ruth Brown makes bitchy an artform.
Daniel Boud likes to jump in front of cameras.
A blog about industrial relations, trade unions, and the insidious WorkChoices legislation.
…and were it to also resemble the virgin mary…
Cool. There is a fabulously seedy wax museum in the prison on Petropavlovskaya in St Petersburg which has a Leon-About-To-Be-Iced display. He sitting there merrily unawares, Mercador sneaking up behind. I have a picture of myself in front of it, which I cherish.
Amanda
That’s a beautiful image. I would like to think they could make a panto of it with cries of “he’s behind you!” from the children.
lol, what a buy. We should all pitch in for it and see if we can find some home-grown political figures to test it on.