Paul Mason is wrong, but less wrong than Nick Wright
Nick Wright is a frequent contributor to the Morning Star and prominent member of the Communist Party of Britain. Back in the 1980’s, he was one of the unreconstructed Stalinists grouped around the Straight Left newspaper in opposition to the then leadership of the Communist Party. The Straight Left people reckoned the CP had gone soft (“revisionist”), distanced itself from the Soviet Union and other “socialist” countries, while at home it was paying insufficient attention to workplace and union organisation. Things would get even worse, as the openly reformist Eurocommunists gained control of...