When "Trotskyists" go full National Socialist.

One of the  legacies of the Corbyn era has been the rise of antisemitism on the left which has not even always just been hidden as so-called "anti-Zionism".  While a large number of these individuals are not in organised groups and restrict themselves to tweeting hateful and conspiratorial comments about Jewish control of the banks or media, sometimes even the BBC there are sections of the organised left which crossed the Rubicon a long time ago.

Most obvious of these is the Communist Party of Great Britain (Weekly Worker) which defends every antisemite or seriously deranged individual inside the Labour Party through it's Labour Against the Witch Hunt front organisation. They once had a problem with a member called Ian Donovan who developed a theory that there is an "International Jewish Bourgeoisie". 

Now for reasons that will be obvious to anyone with a modicum of intelligence that is nothing more than a Marxist version of the international Zionist conspiracy theories pursued by the far right for decades and is used by Islamists as part of their ideological heritage. The target is never "Zionists". It's Jews no matter how they twist and turn their banal outlooks.

The CPGB (WW) expelled Donovan accusing him of antisemitism however he quickly found a new home with Gerry Downing in a small group called Socialist Fight. This group was one of the fragments of Gerry Healy's Workers Revolutionary Party which fell apart after their leader was found to be a sexual abuser.

Downing ended up in one of the smallest fragments and carried with him the ideological heritage of antisemitism (dressed in anti-Zionist clothing) that had existed in the WRP who received money from various despotic Arab regimes led by Qaddafi or Saddam Hussein.

Readers will recall that not only was Downing expelled from the Labour Party but had a car crash of an interview with Andrew Neil which has become legend on the left. Downing found an ally with Ina Donovan and the pair peddled their errant nonsense until as is quite usual for these groups they fell out and there are now two "Socialist Fights", one sub-titled "the Communist Faction".

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It seems Donovan's obsession with Zionism continues and his Facebook Page seems to have in alignment with the paranoid Islamist Asghar "Mossad pinched my shoe" Bukhari. The obsession with Jews  Zionists is obvious to any reader. The latest edition of their newspaper has headlines I would expect to see in a modern day Völkischer Beobachter rather than any kind of left paper though admittedly the Corbyn era has eroded the barriers between the far-left and far right perhaps forever.

Small this group may be but it represents a growing tendency amongst a whole layer of leftist elements that are drifting towards a new fascism.