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by coolestuk 1977 days ago
"in no way shape or form a terrorist or criminal organisation".

Says you.

The SWP are followers of Leon Trotsky. https://socialistworker.co.uk/event/view/10735

Trotsky literally wrote a book advocating terrorism, a rebuke to socialists who deplored terrorism.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/trotsky/1920/terrcomm/

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A "criminal or terrorist organisation" is one which commits crimes or acts of terror.

Your own reasoning, ie., guilt by ideological association, no doubt implicates everyone -- including you.

Trotskists oppose terrorism (generally called "individual terrorism") not on moral grounds but due to efficacy. The book you're linking to is Trotsky's argument against individual terrorism and in favour of mass workers' action.