Where Did All The Comrades Go?

Listen to this, broadcast this morning. It is only half an hour long, but it packs an awful lot in.

Devastating. Absolutely devastating.

Some of us always knew this. But we never expected to hear it from the horses' mouths on Radio Four.

Blairism (in all parties) is not only the intellectual heir of Eurocommunism, but also the actual, monetary heir of the Moscow Gold: the Communist Party became Democratic Left, which became the New Politics Network, which became and remains Unlock Democracy. Legally and financially. Directed by a Lib Dem, Unlock Democracy is still occupying the same premises, which were bought with money from the sale of property that had in turn been bought with money given by Lenin.

Tony Blair wrote for Marxism Today, setting out his whole agenda in black and white as early as 1991. Yes, you read aright. Before the 1992 Election.

Paul Corrigan, husband of Hilary Armstrong and architect of Blair's marketisation of the NHS which is now being completed by Cameron, speaks frankly of having been a Communist Party parliamentary candidate in a Labour seat in 1979, and of the Eurocommunist roots of the whole idea of foundation hospitals among other aspects of the Blairite doctrinaire anti-statism that is still in power and which Charles Leadbeater defines as the Communism to which he has always adhered, right up to the present day.

Corrigan confirms that "I am still a Marxist" who understands the world in terms of dialectical materialism. Thus speaks the man who designed Blair's health policy, and whose wife was Blair's Chief Whip, including at the time of the vote on the Iraq War.

The whole idea that there was even any need for a New Labour was effectively dreamt up by Eric Hobsbawm. Demos was founded out of the ruins of the Communist Party and of Marxism Today, with Tony Blair as the only politician at its first meeting. Even I did not know that last one. Keep reading it over until it has properly sunk in.

Devastating. Absolutely devastating.