Party News from the September 2003 issue of the Socialist Standard
In this column in March we reported that a party had been formed in the Ukraine with the same object and declaration of principles as us,
It now turns out that a hoax was involved, part of an elaborate scam to extract money from political groups in Europe and North America to finance the activities of a Trotskyist group in the Ukraine (a sister organisation of Militant in this country in the so-called "Committee for a Workers International"). Members of this group would contact groups in the West by email feigning agreement with the latter's political positions. Money sent ended up in the coffers of the Trotskyist group. At least ten groups seem to have been taken in by this scam including, besides ourselves, the SLP of America, the Socialist Studies group, and various rival Trotskyist outfits to Militant.
We know that vanguardist groups resort to underhand tactics as a matter of principle but this is a particularly devious example.
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A particularly bitter pill because I remember it well.
Some of the wankers involved in this scam are still politically active.
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