Ted Grant's last speech to a gathering of the International

[sturatcliffe]

What have Lenin and Trotsky got to do with Socialism? Stand firmly on their ideas by all means, Lenin saw state capitalism as desirable and outlawed all the opposition parties, and Trotsky shot all the Kronstadt strikers yelling "foreign infiltrators!" --- I mean honestly, these were bloody fascists. Trotsky had no problem with Stalin till he kicked him out, then it was teddy in the corner time.

[hutchjohn1]

This is a great video, Teds waffle is a good example of the workings of Communism. It is slow, made of the same monolog that has been played again and again and slowly puts the attendants to sleep but hides the true dangers of Communism Doctrone.

Amazing how in a Communist State EVERYONE wants to be in a leadership position for you sure dont want to be that poor Kulak at the bottom. But Communist are good at utilizing mass graves and lead the world in thier utilization. You have your bread.

[faoust21]

the kylaks were the ritch farmers.they were not "poor".

[hutchjohn1]

They were rich in that they had two milk cows verses one. They worked harder produced larger crops. They also did not turn half there crop into beer to stay drunk on durung the winter. Rather they purchased better farm equipment and additional lands. Also when the poor farmer who drank half his crop lost it all it was the Kulak who employed him so he could feed his family. You should do some basic research before you spout off on the age old party lines. You looking like the fool otherwise

[faoust21]

according to that,it's the workers fault that they are poor,not the capitalists who control the economy and give low wages and make the workers pay high taxation.

[sherlock101]

If we, as Revolutionaries, are moved to speak against Power or the System, but fear even to speak critically of the Jews and their power - Who is ruling Whom?

[rb1601]

Ted Grant was a giant compared to the likes of Mandelson. Labour would have won a big majority in 97 even with a socialist leadership. New Labour's biggest acheivements are the Iraq War and the BNP in Europe. New Labour has betrayed the working class.

[roll1968]

Another loser who helped keep the Tories in office for 18 years.

[faoust21]

depending on the politics of blair and brown,tories are still in office.

[theffp]

I had the privilege of hearing Ted at the height of his powers in the early 1980s. What this video shows is that he may have lost the powers, but not the faith. Respect. Old age knackers us all .....

[4internacional]

The International Marxist Trent has set roots in Latin America, starting with Mexico. The only way to dignify ower dear Ted Grant is by destroying capitalism. Any step in other way, would be treason to him. The Mexican is section as alive as always. Ted Grant we miss you, but you will live forever in the harts of the whole IMT

[CrankCase08]

MTLYOUTH - Ted Grant and Trotsky were were ethnic Jews. Being an atheist does not change one's ethicity, just as the early atheistic Zionists that established Isreal were jews.

This name change lark from the likes of Lenin and Trotsky,etc was just a myth - the Russian police knew who they were.

Ted Grant was not in Europe during the Nazi period, apart from a stopover in France from South Africa in 1934, then onto London, where he stayed. It appears your explanation has no basis in fact.

[CrankCase08]

MTLYOUTH - Why should my question about Marxist Jews be bigotry? I'm no bigot, and I consider it a fair question. Trotsky and many Bolsheviks changed their name, as did many prominent western jews. Why do they see a need to hide their ethnicity?

Secondly, I saw Ted Grant making a raving speech at a Militant organised conference in Wembley in the 80's. He was a raving comic character then, waving his arms about with his ill-fitting sleeves and spouting simplistic nonsense.

[faoust21]

they changed their names to protect themselves from the Charist police or to show respect to the people who saved them(e.g. Trotsky) or to show their different ideas(Lenin).

[CrankCase08]

@ faoust21 - Crap. The Czarist-era police knew who the leading Bolsheviks were, by both their real and fake names. You'll have to do better than that to explain the Marxist- Jewish habit of changing their names to hide their ethnicity.

[faoust21]

so,if you were osama bin laden you would go around the globe using your real name and not a fake one,right???

[CrankCase08]

So are you now equating Ted Grant with Osama bin Laden?

[faoust21]

Besides,if they wanted to hide their "ethnicity",they would have not let their biographers write their origin.And many people were affilated to Jews one way or another,since jews were all over europe.

[CrankCase08]

Who knows why they would wish to hide their Jewish ethnicity? However, it's a strange coincidence that all these Leftist Jews seek to do so. This never happens among political rightist Jews.

[faoust21]

If they wanted to hide their "ethnicity" they would not let their biographers write that they come from Jews.Although none of them was jew,it doens't seem to bother you!it's like saying that i am a christian(although i am an atheist) just because i grew up in a christian family!

[faoust21]

There is also the issue that leftwing politicians are hunted down by capitalism.That's the reason I am wearing a mask in my videos,otherwise i would end up in jail for critising the greek goverment or the greek far right scums.

[CrankCase08]

faoust21 - You are talking a load of bollocks. You clearly have a lot of growing up to do before you can break out of your distorted Lenin fantasy.

[faoust21]

the answer with your arguments.unless you don't have any.

[CrankCase08]

That makes no sense.

[faoust21]

then answer with arguments,unless you don't have any.

[CrankCase08]

Grant never needed to tell any biographer of his Jewish etnicity - that could easily be found out with a little investigation. He obviously wanted to hide it from the masses rather than from his little band of adoring devotees.

There were no left-wing politicians being hunted down by either the British or French governments while 'Grant' was making his way to Britain from South Africa.

That you can see no wrong in Ted Grant is typical of Marxists who see Lenin as God and Trotsky as Christ.

[faoust21]

Half of my family was executed by the British Goverments because they were marxists.I can see many wrong things in Ted Grant but I cannot stand stupid conspiracy theories and false accusations.

[faoust21]

And your "theory" stands ofcourse outside reality.e.g. the far right in greece blames the Communist Party because one of his founding members was a Jew from Salonica.They tend to "forget" though that 60% of the population in Salonica were Jews at that time.

[CrankCase08]

You are lying. Marxism has never been illegal in Britain so they wouldn't have been executed.

So what if the 'far right' (whoever they are supposed to be) blames the Communist Party? That's their democratic right of free speech.

[faoust21]

britain occupied greece after the WW2.And they cooperated with the Greeks Nazis.Oh,did I just pulled down your illusion on "democratic" Britain?It's their right,it just show how stupid and ignorant they are.

[faoust21]

And as another guy said,you cannot call an atheist "Jew" as you cannot call me a "christian" just because I grew up in a christian enviroment.Grant was an atheist.Therefore he couldn't be Jew.Simple as that.

[faoust21]

But all logic all of the world cannot persuade a racist scum,mr "british job for british workers".The conversations just ended.I do not hold conversations with racists/fascists.Racism is not an opinion but a crime and criminals are not allowed to support their crime.

[CrankCase08]

Being Jewish is not only by religion, it is an ethnicity. Therefore, ethnic Jews can still be atheists, as were the Zionist founders of Israel.

So you are weak on arguments, so use the typical dimwit leftist tactic of  calling me 'racist'. Yes I support British jobs for British workers because immigration increases labour competition, thereby reducing wages. This is something stupid leftists like you ignore.

If Greek communists are stupid like you, I don't blame those far-rightists.

[faoust21]

It's my tactic not to have conversations with any kind of racist scums.Capitalism lowers the wages and capitalism creates immigration.If they weren't immigrants but british unemployed would you ask to deport all british unemployed?capitalism need unemployed people to keep the wages low.

[CrankCase08]

faoust21- You are still talking shit. Britain did NOT co-operate with "Greek Nazis". They co-operated with the conservatives in oppressing a communist takeover. In Yugoslavia, Britain supported Tito. Furthermore, you can't correlate post-war Britain with modern Britain.

How dare you call me a racist. I have an Asian girlfriend. If you were to call me that to my face, I'd make a mess of your face. Jews are the worst racists. Immigration into Britain is increasing unemployment and lowering wages.

[faoust21]

I am greek.I now better than you.Britain cooperated with the Greek military corps that were voluntarily under the commands of the Nazis.The conservatives also cooperated with the greek Nazis.The CP by that time were 60-70% of the population.Capitalism increases unemployment.

[CrankCase08]

So what's your point?

[CrankCase08]

A pointless, bumbling, simplistic speech. Ted Grant was yet another leftist splitter, destined to go nowhere. And why did he feel the need to change his name from Isaac Blank? Funny how Marxist Jews keep doing this.

I saw him made a speech in London during the 1980's. What a clown.

[slicemasterflex]

This is Ted in his last days, and speaking in an interupted fashion due to interpreters. But in reality there was no other member of the Labour movement who could match him for his analysis and depth of understanding. People who doubt his skill should take time to read his brilliant and numerous articles and essays on the decline of the Soviet Union and the coming crisis in the capitalist economy. He alone, as far back as the 1940's & 50's, predicted much of what we are experiencing today!

[TerrySleeper]

A waste of time within a wate of time.

[Militant000Marxist]

It is one of my greatest regrets that I never had the honour of meeting this great man.

[Subjectivity101]

his really old isn't he? is that symbolic?

[marxistsoldier]

symbolic of what?

[useageandabusage1]

There is one thing Ted Grant said which sticks in my mind. People with no understanding of mechanics would not presume to advertise themselves as car mechanics. Yet people with no knowledge or understanding of Marxism presume to dismiss Marxist ideas.

[marxistsoldier]

That is a brilliant quote i will start using it :)

[Solechnaya]

What a wonderful quotation.

[Tula49]

Ted Grant has been dead for over a year now, but his ideas are more relevant than ever. All the attacks of the ultra-lefts and bourgeoisie are made out of fear, as the IMT continues to grow on correct theory, method, tactics, etc. Comrade Ted Grant, you will not be forgotten! Long live the IMT!

[Chessiness]

You may think differently, Hiyellowhornet, but I don't want some beauraucrat telling me what job I must do, and queuing six hours for toilet paper. Communism is nothing but state feudalism.

[BaronAlessandroDeMaz]

That's an excellent description: state feudalism. I'll remember that--it's very true.

[Hiyellowhornet]

Yay Ted. Rest in peace, brother.

[Chessiness]

"Surely you do not imagine that we shall be victorious without applying the most cruel revolutionary terror?" - Lenin.

It takes a special kind of idiot to believe in communism.

[ChrisEdwards2004]

How do you know, Communism has never been tried yet? You also forget that your own system of capitalism came into being by "applying the most cruel revolutionary terror." The English Civil War was bloody affair and culminated in the beheading of King Charles by Cromwell who acted on behalf of incipient English capitalism. The US War of Independence and Civil War were also very bloody affairs--the latter cleared the decks for capitalist industrialisation. Hypocrite!

[Chessiness]

The English Civil War, the US War of Independence and American civil war were not specifically motivated by capitalism, you tool.

This greatest act of peace in history also killed of 5 million Russians, nice going.

[Hiyellowhornet]

Even dead, Ted Grant's work offers better insight into U.S. history then you, a living true believer, could ever offer.

[NiklasZenius]

Yes it cost a lot of lives because the capitalist and imperialist states could not tolerate it and made a blockade and invaded USSR to make a civil war.

[BaronAlessandroDeMaz]

Find me one credible historian to support this. And by "historian" I do not mean the owner of a Marxist website.

[NiklasZenius]

In fact, you could look up any historian book in properly the most of the world and see for yourself. It's a historically fact that no one bestrides, that a long range of capitalist states invaded USSR some month after the revolution. It's also a fact that they made a blockade against USSR.

[ChrisEdwards2004]

And the slave trade, the looting and exploitation of the colonies in the 19th and 20th Centuries were part of the development of capitalism. The Russian Revolution resulted from World War 1--the Russian army mutinied against the appalling slaughter on the front. The Bolsheviks took Russia out of the war--the greatest act of peace in history. The two world wars were essentially power struggles between rival capitalist blocs.

[Hiyellowhornet]

Yes, communism, a system less then one hundred years old. It takes an even more special kind of idiot to believe in capitalism, which, in its SIXTH century, still can't break with imperialist war, enclosure acts and debt service economy as a spur to investment.

[marxistsoldier]

The 'terror' used by the bourgeoisie is far more ruthless, considering capitalism is the biggest mass murderer in all human history

[Nitenichiryu]

what a man

[majorMcpharter]

Workers of all lands unite.Abolish the wages system comrades.

[dorestis]

long live Ted!!!

[Socialism4Ever]

Comrade Ted Grant shall be missed, but we shall carry forth his fight!

[haveguitarwilltravel]

How do you know it causes suffering? there has never been a communist society.

[caesarscook]

Ted will never be forgotten. He lives on through his theoretical contributions to the movement and through our international, which he played an instrumental role in guiding through some of the most difficult seas. Long live Ted Grant! Long live the IMT!

[Dmitry1989]

Solidarity from the Canadian section. The heroes will be remembered.

[afterboltxevique]

those who are goin' to figth for the future, for our revolution, salute one of the biggest revolutionaries in the world. we'll remember u.

sorry about my english, one camarade of the spanhish section. Long life to the international!

[deeuu2]

"Man's dearest possession is life. It is given to him but once, and he must live it so as to feel no torturing regrets for wasted years, never know the burning shame of a mean and petty past; so live that, dying, he might say: all my life, all my strength were given to the finest cause in all the world — the fight for the Liberation of Mankind" - Nikolai Ostrovsky, How the Steel was Tempered.

Dave Wallace, formerly a Comrade in SE18. Transported close to Botany Bay and trying to escape.

[pauliepauln]

ted was an inspiration, a true comrade, a shining light in socialist though and action. the fact he would encourage criticism and debate proved what a dialectic, historical and philisophical materialist he truly was.

a star has gone out in the night sky.

can't help feel this video doesn't really do him justice, however. he seems so frail.

rest in peace ted.

[katerwaul]

Comrades, sorry to hear about the death of Ted, whom I had the pleasure of meeting some years ago. Ted's contribution to socialism in Britain will not be forgotten.

Alister Black, editor Frontline magazine