The Canadian Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR-RCP), in its final death throes, has only been creating high-school level drama this year, and the people who still (sadly) remain in it can’t switch to doing any useful things to do. They have taken on the mission of misguided harassment of former members, including myself, to gain some internet clout – so I am going repay them in kind for all the years of my service, burnout and depression. To add to that, the latest clique to wreck the RCP and poach a bunch of members out of it is still in cahoots with the current leadership (friendship has always been above politics for them), so they will get their fair share as well. The RCP has been planning to de-mystify the work of the leadership to its other members for a long time, however it kept on failing to do so for years, so I am going to help them. I am breaking the silence that is customary for current and former members of that group that thrives on mystery around it, and publishing my experience in it for anyone interested, which isn’t that many people if we’re being honest.

A little bit about myself

I have been involved in various levels of leadership and in most areas of work with the Canadian Revolutionary Communist Party (PCR-RCP) in the last 6 years (it is a tiny organization and overlap like this is common for most members). I was, for better or worse, privy to many events and conversations that most members have not heard about, because of the cliquish and secretive nature of the group where things are kept hidden at the level of leadership and the cliques within it. I have also been ostracized, or cancelled, by that group in the spring of 2019 for defending my good friend and comrade from a witch hunt over allegations that never added up or were backed by anything substantial and that keep changing to this day depending on what serves the witch hunt better. Most of my comrades who were around to actually witness what has been going on have sided with the comrade whom I have defended, and the mishandling of it by the RCP’s leadership has led to its collapse locally, with many people leaving the group across the country. I am currently a target for a harassment campaign, which is the first time ever anyone associated with the RCP does anything like this despite them expelling many people for worse things over the years. But instead of submitting to this harassment, I am fighting back and will keep on doing that until I see justice.

Part 1: Snake McNuggets

Throughout the last 8 years, most people who went through the PCR-RCP, and especially those outside Quebec, have had the unpleasant experience of working with one individual. He had his hands in most PCR-RCP related matters, often micromanaging things he should not have been touching and knowing most of the people involved with the group. He has also been the public face of that group online, having caused irreparable damage to the RCPs reputation and to Maoist politics in this country. He is known by many names, the main being Martin McAwhsum, or as most people call him – McNugget. He is the main focus of this piece, because no one has done more to damage the radical left in Canada in the last few years than he did – not the fascists, not the general right-wingers, nor the Canadian state. He has lately been based in Hamilton, Canada having organized people in Ottawa, Peterborough and established several RCP related groups after visiting other cities across this country in the last few years. He has recently caused the final crisis that has essentially destroyed the RCP, while poaching the members who have been most active in it and loyal to him. He has not been doing any organizing since, trying to unsuccessfully set up a new lefty group under his leadership, so he is really desperate for attention. He now plays the big feminist hero online once again, so I am going to bring to light some little known facts about what kind of a scumbag he actually is. People like him thrive on maintaining a false good reputation while stepping on everyone around him to climb a bit higher in the little lefty milieu he cultivated around him. Below is a glimpse into the twisted political drama (lots of drama, too much, sorry!) that has been my life for the last few years organizing with the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) and the Revolutionary Student Movement (RSM) in canada. McNugget is pretty much the main villain in that story, because of how much he has influenced these groups. Read this at your own risk, it’s a bit long and sort of messed up at times. CW for mention of sexual violence, self-harm, abusive relationships and culty dynamics.

McNugget’s organizing style always was a combination of bullying and manipulation. He always tried to get people to bend to his will in political arguments and even benign discussions, making the argument or the conversation seem a lot more serious and antagonistic than it was. He used to mobilize a few people to come to his support, whether online or in group meetings, so that his target would feel isolated. He would then press and harass his target to break, concede that he is right and would not let go of it until that happened. It was what he called “being principled” and “not mincing words”. He always hated when similar approach was directed against him, as most people rightly do, but claimed that his targets just need it take it like it is. And if they felt bad as a result of being harassed? He’d say “good, you feel bad because you should feel bad”. He really fashions himself the decider of when, how, and who should feel what, the dude has some serious God complex. He would use his manipulative and bullying techniques to try and make people who can’t do some organizing related tasks think that they are the worst human beings ever and that they just need to stop being lazy and do what he tells them to do. This ranged from writing statements with unclear expectations and the timing that he singlehandedly decided on was the best, or doing bad campaigns and actions that he considered necessary, or going into the fray doing poorly planned radical actions he though would look good on the internet. Usually people who don’t know how to do these things were pressured to do it all without training or resources, with burnout and dropping out of organizing to follow. If you didn’t do what he wanted, he would send you messages or confront you and tell you how disappointed he is in you and act all upset. And then he spread gossip behind your back to other organizers about how disappointing and useless you are. When someone in a leadership position does that continuously, that shit really messes up people who are expected to have an unwavering relationship of trust and respect towards people in leadership and their other comrades. And he knew that. His best friend and his ex-partner (both being the leading organizers with the RCP for years) came up with a term “heavy handed approach” for instances like that. They would usually come to his aid with that neutral phrase when there was push-back against him so that it would seem like they too think he was going over board, but also won’t actually be appropriately harsh towards him by calling out his bullying. He also has a tendency of calling most comrades his friends, telling them how he values their friendship and is there for them if they need him. He’s never really there for them, and it took me too long to realize that he uses this manipulative tactic the same way a manager uses it with subordinates. He is infamous for being a complete asshole, having a terrible reputation with organizers from most groups that came in touch with him. When criticized on it, him and his 2 other musketeers mentioned above would dismiss it, claiming that it’s coming from liberals who can’t accept him telling it like it is to them. One time he was bullying his comrade in Ottawa back in 2014 at a bar, going off at him for some BS about the failing organizing they had there, to the point where he LITERALLY GAVE THAT GUY A HEART ATTACK! He then made sure that the narrative is that the guy was to blame, because he was on drugs, so him being an aggressive bully had nothing to do with it. Posing as a feminist hero for clout, while covering up sexual misconduct based on how politically beneficial it is has been his thing for years. And it’s his only claim to relevancy now, so he is clinging to that one strongly. McNugget has been covering up his best, older friend and closest comrade in leadership hitting on younger, newer recruits for quite a while. He was especially notorious for trying to get people into a threesome with him. So I’ll just refer to him as Mr. Threesomes. Back in the fall of 2018, this got so bad that a new comrade in their organizing in Hamilton has brought up a complaint against Mr. Threesomes about being pressured to… You guessed it, join a threesome with him! McNugget and Mr. Threesomes then brought this up to the RCP leadership “for transparency”, not going into the details of it, not providing any information about what was done to deal with this, but saying that it was being handled locally and the rest of the leadership doesn’t need to get involved. Because the people in leadership all have been drowning in unfinished tasks that just kept on piling on (mainly handed out by McNugget), and because those 3 musketeers were looking into that back in Hamilton, there didn’t seem to be a need for an external investigation. The big issue that should have raised a major red flag is that McNugget has specifically instructed the leadership to keep this discussion off the record and leave it contained to Hamilton for security and privacy reasons (a recurring tactic that he used to silence his critics with). And that’s a cover up, literally the definition of it. Of a sexual harassment incident, with a long-time leader – newer recruit dynamic. On top of that, Mr. Threesomes didn’t even read out a self-criticism with regards to that – a symbolic, performative self-flagellation, when the sinner reads out a confession about being bad and saying some “correct” words to make everyone think they’re going to “rectify” from this, usually not rectifying anything. Mr. Threesomes has actually lied when asked if this was the first time something like that has happened. There were also people in the room from Toronto and Hamilton who knew that he’s been trying to get other recruits into a threesome before, and they said nothing. I only found out recently that he’s done that in Toronto as well, but that information was never shared among different cities, so he was allowed to keep doing it. And because there was no investigation into the matter, it’s possible that there are people who had similar experiences but didn’t have the opportunity to speak up, because they had no way of knowing that others have been through it and that it’s not ok just because a dude in leadership does it. I also recently found out that some RCP people in Hamilton have been having sex parties with their comrades before the mass exodus this summer, most of them new to organizing. I’m not holding my breath, but I’m hoping that someone decedent in the RCP tries to look into that one day. So that was some of the new recruits’ first experience with radical leftist organizing, brought to them by the people who are around their 30s. Needless to say, most of their new recruits were a lot younger than that. Continuing on the topic of covering up sexual misconduct… Back in 2016, when The Continuators™ in Montreal still didn’t split from the RCP, a former leading member that was unjustly expelled for confronting the spread of TERF readings there (literally transphobic readings from the Deep Green Resistance and such) and political lines on feminism among the RCP and their RSM brought up a complaint about an abusive relationship against one of the older, main leaders there. It wasn’t from him, but from a former comrade that got driven out by constant, uncomradely criticism from the Montreal leadership after doing tremendous work to mobilize a few thousand people for the RSM’s march against tuition fees (Red Spring 2015 Day of Action). In one night more people came out to that event than in the whole 15 years of the RCP’s existence combined, but… It didn’t have enough RCP banners in it, and there were too many anarchists and about 5-6 thousand people did whatever they wanted instead of following the directions of a group of (at best) 2 dozen people! (On a side note, McNugget told the RSM to announce that it was 10,000 people so it would look more impressive, despite objections from people who were actually there). So she got pushed out, cut contact with almost all RCP organizers she knew, and even freaked out and walked away when another organizer from Ottawa bumped into her by accident a few months later and tried to say hi. Clearly that former comrade had a really awful experience there. So that complaint of some serious abuse made its way to McNugget, who decided that it would be good to let the leadership in Montreal to independently investigate this, and the guy in leadership said it never happened and that they tried to reach out to the person who made the complaint, but (surprise!) couldn’t get an answer. And then McNugget just turned on the former comrade who brought up the complaint, continuously telling other organizers that he wasn’t trust worthy and that it was inappropriate of him to even be bringing this up without the consent of the alleged survivor. That last part about asking for consent in issues like this gets bent by him every time he sees fit, especially when he wants to make an edgy facebook post and get some clout for that. He usually doesn’t ask if he can share the stories of survivors and use it to advance his image and ego, yet attacks others for doing the same so he can get clout for that too. The issue was never shared with the rest of the RCP members and was left at that, an attempt to bring it up for discussion at the RCP Congress in November 2016 was prevented by the leadership and the guy got to be in the new leadership again. McNugget has pretended to give a shit about that discussion being possible to take place, and even shook his big head disapprovingly for all to see when the proposal for the discussion was rejected on some bureaucratic technicality. That’s because by that time his clique’s conflict with Montreal was out in the open, he had seen that his clique mobilized more numbers for the Congress than Montreal, and it was more politically beneficial to throw them under the bus now instead of trying to stay on better terms like before. Though, even after that, nothing was done to spread this information among the members or do anything about it, it was reserved for people in leadership only, like most things in the RCP. The accused leader got into another relationship with someone who, similarly, was much younger, was essentially his student as well, and also was being involved in the RCP there. Pretty messed up dynamics to begin with, but that didn’t bother anyone in the leadership not before nor after the 2017 split enough to do anything about it. More recently, in the summer of 2018, the RCP leadership got a report about a leading organizer in Quebec City being investigated by the body overseeing the registered massage therapists in that city because of a complaint of sexual touching was launched against him. The leadership didn’t do anything about it, as the person from Montreal who was the only link with Quebec City at that point said he just started to look into that and that it’s not really clear yet. Later on, in the fall of 2018, this issue was brought up again. At that point there were at least 2 complaints against him, his license was being revoked after a hearing that looked into this, and there was an article written about it in the local newspaper. The leadership has decided to do nothing about it even then, and the person was allowed to remain as the only leader of his group, with some new people joining the group’s sphere at that period. So that was fine with McNugget, the big feminist ally, who was still up high in leadership and was the loudest voice there at that point. In the winter of 2019, one person in leadership (not McNugget or anyone in his self-righteous clique of snakes) had enough and pushed for the person to be at least suspended, because he was in a position of providing leadership to new people there. Everyone else took a moment to think, and agreed to expel right away, with no process or anything, because they realized it was potentially making them look bad. Granted, the evidence was pretty damning, but decisions like this have always been entirely arbitrary and depended on the mood of the leadership while not being backed by any policy or established practice. And all this wasn’t shared with the rest of the members, of course. Some members heard that the person was expelled, with no details provided. Especially not the details about how poorly the leadership had dealt with this. McNugget has developed a serious case of paranoia over the so-called Gonzaloites being an existential threat to Maoism and all that is good in this world. They were presented as The Anti-Christ by him at every opportunity, and they were all out to get him! He didn’t miss an opportunity to fear monger about this on social media, in-person conversations and (most annoyingly) in the leadership chats. In general, about a third of the messages in these chats were about who posted what and what should be posted on Facebook, it was truly pathetic and useless. But it seemed like the right thing to most people back then, it was seen as staying up to date and on the same page, complaints were almost never raised. Some of it was fun, but not an appropriate or productive use of any serious organizer’s time. And then one day back in 2017 he decided to select a member from Vancouver to be his next target for harassment. He started to get into totally inappropriate spats with the guy on social media (something that a leader in any serious group would get at least demoted for), then started to refer to him as “The Vancouver Gonzaloite”, a tactic of referring to an undesirable comrade as if they are some kind of an enemy that served to dehumanize him (I wonder how McNugget likes the taste of his own medicine here). He then started to convince the people in leadership to expel comrade Gonzalo, as I jokingly referred to him. There were no actual reasons for the expulsion, besides McNugget’s paranoia and the empty platitudes about things like that having to be resolved in a line-struggle in the party somehow didn’t even apply to this. Not that it was ever followed or defined, it was one of those many “correct” phrases to use among comrades without knowing how to actually go about doing it. Like self-criticism, or proletarian feminism, or revolutionary organizing, there are too many of those to mention. To continue about our Gonzaloites, comrade Gonzalo was supposed to get expelled on a technicality, because all the members were supposed to be upholding Marxism-Leninism-Maoism, but comrade Gonzalo was upholding Marxism-Leninism-Maoism*principally-Maoism*, a relatively new Western trend in Maoist organizing, so that wasn’t TRUE Maoism according to McNugget and it wasn’t just a disagreement that could have been solved by trying to discuss and argue about it, or “struggle”, as the more hip commies say. He still agreed with the core politics and the documents of the RCP, while many people in the RCP have had disagreements with those, and even encouraged to have these disagreements by McNugget’s clique, so this was actually normal. It reached the lowest point when he started to suggest that comrade Gonzalo is a spy for the US Red Guards, working to undermine the RCP from the inside. The evidence? None, but it was likely, according to him and Mr. Threesomes, so he kept on accusing him of likely being that. And he almost convinced the rest of the leadership to expel him, with only one dissenting voice, but then people correctly realized that this would mean that the whole group in Vancouver would leave, because the leadership barely had any contact with them throughout all of their existence, was not helpful to them ever, and if the first interaction after all this time was to be to order them to expel a prominent member, it would end badly. So, a hit squad of 2 people (close to McNugget and proposed by him) was sent there in early 2019, with the instructions to re-establish contact, and then special instructions from McNugget to make sure to isolate and expel comrade Gonzalo. The leadership has agreed to allow the 2 people to make the call to expel or not, but McNugget took it a step further and met with them privately to “prepare” them. Long story short, they came back having re-established contact, bringing a few well-deserved complaints (to be dismissed and never resolved), yet realizing that the group is too cohesive for them to be able to expel anyone. Poor McNugget was so disappointed! That’s his main manipulative tactic – to make people feel like they seriously fucked up by telling them how disappointed he is in them, while crossing his arms and shaking his big head disapprovingly, if done in person. He tried to fear monger a bit more, saying that this is pretty much the end for the RCP and that it was a huge, catasrophic mistake, yada yada yada. He still has that paranoia, seeing The Evil Gonzaloites everywhere. It’s really sad, but fitting with his general fear of silly things, considering the guy is afraid of crossing the street unless there’s no cars at all in sight and thinking that eating refrigerated tomatoes would kill him with botulism LMAO. McNugget has been using allegations of sexual misconduct and abusive relationships to his benefit, deciding to present them in different ways based on how he can use it. When he was being heavily criticized for being the biggest opportunist there is on his resignation post back in August of 2019 by his former comrade from Toronto, he absolutely opportunistically threw a claim that the person has placed a survivor in a dangerous situation by disclosing details of an investigation to the abuser, so they can’t criticize him for anything. Now, this is actually a lie. I was directly involved with this situation, because I was the one who brought it forward to the RCP’s leadership. What happened was not a direct allegation nor a request to deal with it. It was a comrade having some thoughts about a past experience that were described in a light similar to someone else’s negative experience, however the comrade made an emphasis on how they didn’t want it addressed in the way that the RCP seemed to be addressing similar issues, because it wasn’t appropriate for that situation in their view. I asked for permission to bring it with to the leadership and got it, after which I did bring it up for a discussion at the next opportunity. Immediately upon hearing that, most people in the room jumped to the conclusion that we should all assume the worst even before the investigation, with McNugget’s ex-partner going so far as saying that the comrade being investigated could engage in extreme self-harm as a result and that it wouldn’t be anyone’s fault but theirs. Continuing the previous story, there was a heavy air of people being really uncomfortable, but no one challenged it regrettably, because that was some seriously fucked-up cult shit. Luckily, nothing of the sort happened as a result of that investigation. Later that night one of the comrades in leadership was sexually assaulted by a guest at another comrade’s house, the guest was also somewhat involved in the organizing circles in Toronto. The next day leadership has learned about it, most people were really taken aback by this, said some generic supportive stuff and apparently RCP people from Toronto have discussed it a few days later. But it sounded like they just talked about not being able to do anything about it, not much follow-up happened on this. There were no call-outs, no self-righteous crusades to get that person banned from anywhere, much less any attempts to facilitate the two parties talking about it to find a resolution and to help the survivor heal. The survivor got a couple check-up messages later, one of them from McNugget, and that’s where the issue was buried. Fast forward 2 months from then – the Toronto comrade reached out to the comrade under investigation for sexual misconduct, mentioned earlier, to try to see if there is anything that comrade could recall about anything like what they were being investigated for. No names, no mentions of details of the investigation, just an attempt to make sure that they’re not staying close with someone who might have engaged in sexual misconduct. It was definitely not appropriate or smart, but it didn’t place anyone in danger, especially because the 2 people were really far apart geographically, and this was the direct result of the failure of other RCP leaders tasked with the investigation to follow up on that with the proper urgency. The person responsible has only followed up on the task 6 months later, learning that while the comrade under the investigation remembered the time-frame and the situation that was mentioned, they didn’t remember doing anything unconsentual. I got another comrade to try to discuss this with the comrade who originally opened up about the issue, but it seemed like they were uncomfortable with RCP people looking into that, so no concrete allegations were ever presented. Because of that, when the results of that investigation were presented to the leadership months later in the summer of 2018, McNugget proposed that the issue be laid to rest because there’s not enough to go on. Yet that snake has changed his opinion on it instantly just to win an argument on Facebook, while diverting attention from being criticized to attack his critic! The guy is truly a despicable opportunist, nothing is too low for him it seems. On a similar topic, when back in the summer of 2018 an allegation of a comrade who used to be in Ottawa and is now in Kitchener-Waterloo pressuring and coercing a then-new recruit to take drugs at parties a few years ago came up, McNugget was the first one to dismiss is right away, saying that “people do stupid shit when they’re young” and that the leadership of RCP shouldn’t be expected to look into complaints like that. Coincidentally, it was brought up only a few months after he successfully pushed for someone really close to that guy to be promoted in leadership, so having an investigation or disciplinary measures would’ve been not only really awkward, but also would not help him maintain the person on his good side. So, there was no attempt to try and check whether that comrade is still doing stuff like that, or to bring this past experience up and talk about how that wasn’t good and can’t happen ever again. Nothing like that was done. He used the sentiment of a growing fatigue from hearing about and having to address interpersonal conflicts, while realizing that no on in the RCP knows how to deal with all that, which was really prominent among the leadership, and no one wanted to volunteer to deal with that. As I mentioned before – everyone was drowning in unfinished, huge tasks that they didn’t know how to tackle. One other big thing that McNugget is incapable of is taking criticism well. He has really exposed this on his recent political posts, where he just keeps pointing the finger at his critics, coming up with some unrelated bullshit about them (that’s usually made up too) to shut them down. He was a lot more restrained with this when he was under the RCP’s discipline and had to maintain appearances of being comradely and respectful. And though he was never really good at it, he was not as awful as he is now with this on social media. Even before he wrecked the RCP, he wouldn’t accept criticism of his shitty behavior from most people in it, leadership or not, and even when he did – he just acted like he agreed and then kept repeating his shittiness later. Most people that have disagreed with him were immediately being treated differently – as if he held a grudge against them. You could see it in how he increased the scrutiny of what they’re saying, or proposing, and how he tried to build up the antagonism against them in political discussions and the gossip he spread behind their backs. He also has a habit of excluding people from organizing based on personal dislike. He has repeatedly been telling us that 3 solid comrades in Ottawa should not be allowed to be involved in organizing, going on about them being too academic. The reason? He had beef with one of them, which grew out of some disagreement and him having a shitty response to it, so that comrade’s friends were lumped into the equation of having to be excluded by association. And it’s really ironic, because he is the biggest academic nerd who spent most of his ineffective organizing in the academic environment, being only able to mostly mobilize impressionable university students to any of his initiatives. It’s part of him being a control freak, he can’t accept that things don’t always have to work out the way he wants them to. And that there’s other people who have better ideas than he does. He was a shitty leader, and his leadership has heavily affected the current ruinous conditions the RCP is in today. His controlling tendencies were so bad, that it wasn’t just at the level of higher leadership that he would be maintaining dominance. He had a habit of shaming newer comrades on their personal posts, publicly humiliating them, if they would say something he didn’t like. And he especially liked to circumvent several layers of proper channels and send messages with orders to take down or edit personal facebook posts that supporters and members made, or that they posted on organizing pages. If they didn’t agree (usually because he should have fucked off with that bullshit, or because they simply didn’t know him and some weirdo was messaging them with orders) – it was being brought up to other people in leadership telling them to deal with it. The dude has a weird fixation on social media stuff, it’s really bad. Around 2014, he got banned for arguing with someone in the original Communism group (with Amado, for those in the know about prominent leftbook characters) and then decided to open his own Communism 101 group out of pettiness, spite and to boost his enormous ego. He always described it as a big and important project and there was a bunch of intrigue happening about who gets to manage it etc. And it did grow for a time, until it turned to shit, like all of his political initiatives. He has been criticized for his inappropriate behavior on social media so many times, that he eventually offered to shut his facebook account down, but the other 2 loyal musketeers came to his aid and convinced him and the rest of the leadership that he is too important to not be on social media and that his conducts isn’t that bad anyway. The main thing that most people who have come in touch with McNugget while working with the RCP and its other groups will probably remember him for is how he has completely wrecked it in July-August of 2019. The RCP even released a really lukewarm, cordial statement about it, asking him kindly to stop poaching their members, please. And claiming that they’re all welcome to come back if they decide to, despite all the damage they’ve done – everyone makes mistakes, so no biggie. All he’s been saying in public is that he just left. But, because he’s a big lying snake, this isn’t what has happened. It all started to become visible around February 2019. He brought up to the rest of the leadership that he thought there was a general sense of “malaise” on the left. It was a totally subjective perception based on his yet-again failing organizing in Hamilton, and at the leadership level. And it was totally a pessimistic outlook on reality, ignoring mass mobilizations and occasional militant events happening in canada and across the world. But he was allowed to express it and get a respectful discussion about it, despite accusing quite a few people of subjectivism and pessimism for years to shut them down and dismiss their criticism and opinions. He has, once again, told the rest of the leadership to keep it secret from everyone else in the RCP and it was left at that. Only a few months later, he has prepared a mass exodus of his clique from the RCP, which included most of the leadership back then. Many people saw it and just finally dropped out of this messy nonsense, because honestly, this is too much pointless drama. But it didn’t stop there. In the weeks following the exodus, him and members of his clique have been messaging many RCP supporters trying to convince them to leave the group. They had the audacity to blame the membership for being undisciplined and ineffective at garnering mass support. And took no responsibility whatsoever for this sad state of affairs, despite being in leadership for years, and being entirely unopposed ever since the split with Montreal back in 2017. Every initiative, every resolution, every major decision made since then was either theirs or heavily influenced and shaped by them. And most proposals for what and how to do were from McNugget, adopted with little to no changes. They’re trying to be very secretive about it, and they’re also not organized enough as always, but they are working on creating a new grouplet into which they are trying to poach people from the RCP. That’s the foundation – turncoats that joined a clique of incompetent snakes that ruined the RCP while they were in charge. Sound like a great new culty group to join! I feel bad for the newer recruits who don’t have the tools to realize just how bad the groups they’re involved with is. There will only be pointless stress, drama, and harassment developing out of it. Until it decays and falls apart, hopefully fast and with minimal number of casualties. The recent split that McNugget has prepared in the RCP is also an extremely ironic move, because he was the biggest holy crusader against The Continuators™ and their split in 2017. He has repeated everything that he called out in how they reacted – not trying to resolve existing problems at a Congress (which the leadership was working this year to prepare), not even trying to resolve them through some other internal avenue; poaching people; his clique was also responsible for keeping an eye on all the cash of the group, and maybe that RCP statement about them was so soft and friendly because the clique decided to keep it following in the footsteps of The Continuators™. At least he’s not making a new RCP claiming that they’re THE REAL RCP, so there’s that. Hell, McNugget was also one of the people instigating this split back in 2017 the most. His clique was the ones that prepared the “Break with Old Ideas” document, criticizing the RCP in Montreal for being transphobic. And they were, and there’s a lot more to ay how awful they were on top of that, but instead of sparking a line struggle, that document was a political grandstanding attack that led to more antagonism between the two cliques, and it led to The Continuators™ splitting and doing even more damage to their recruits and to the RCP as a whole. McNugget’s clique was also tirelessly working to bring in more and more students who just discovered what Maoism was into the RCP just in time for the Congress. The Continuators™ were doing the same, which resulted in both sides having brought people who were not politically prepared to be an active cadre to fill the ranks and then lending to unnecessary antagonism between a lot of people. Which in the next 2 years was followed by more splits, internal conflicts and collapse of work where many of these new people were involved. It was recognized as a problem by the leadership at the time, but no solutions to the basic issue of bringing up the political level of new recruits was found. Ultimately, it is the fault of the leadership and the organization’s structure, not the new people who were excited to join it. But no one in McNugget’s clique have taken that responsibility, they actually don’t think they’re responsible, while blaming everyone else for being unaccountable and undisciplined. And it’s a little known fact, but McNugget has also instigated the fight at Montreal’s bookstore in March of 2017. He told the comrades who were in a sharp conflict with The Continuators™ (due to mainly exposing their transphobic and culty tendencies and actions) that they had to go there and take up space. Which, overall isn’t a wrong sentiment – it’s messed up to expect comrades who are still with the RCP, but described as undesirables by the groupthink of a local Montreal clique for political disagreements and being openly critical, to be barred from public events hosted by the RCP. It’s absurd. But these comrades knew that there will be a fight if they go. To which McNugget has reassured them that it won’t be likely and that there’s people who will have their backs, so it will all be fine. It was essentially an order, like many of his other manipulative orders, and also a set-up. The comrades did want to expose just how messed up the continuators are, and this was the only option being presented to them due to the incompetence of McNugget’s clique in the leadership. Because no one had their backs at that store, they got beaten up and chased out, and no one stopped that. Some RCP people have tried, but not because they had their backs or anything, but because it was disrupting the event. Publicly, the incident was described as the worst, most unacceptable thing ever, and the attackers were expelled, and then the whole of Montreal RCP split off a few days later refusing to expel these people, while taking over the original RCP website and most of its funds and bookstores. But in private, the people in leadership who were around for this kept saying that it actually wasn’t that bad for those who got assaulted and traumatized, and that it was their egos that were bruised the most. It’s totally disrespectful of how traumatic getting assaulted by the people you still remember as former comrades, and being tricked into going to a place by promises that you’ll be ok actually is. Especially if the people are being used as pawns to sort out political problems between two rival cliques in a group they have invested so much energy into. These people in leadership usually prioritized their personal lives, school and work over organizing, so they obviously can’t sympathize with the comrades that got assaulted for no good reason. So that is one of the disgusting, yet usual treatments they give their comrades. These Montreal comrades were thrown under the bus, and then constantly harassed by McNugget for not doing the tasks they couldn’t do and didn’t think were the right approach to organizing based on the on-the-ground experience to the point where they all resigned. Every comrade is disposable and will be discarded after they serve their purpose, all at the discretion of the leadership. There are more stories like this that many people can share, it’s up to them to share those or not. Some have shared them already, others just want to move past it. But one thing that I should address is… Where the hell was I with this while I was witnessing it, and participating in some of these events? It’s simple, I was too hesitant, cowardly, or stupid to put it all into context until now, months after being out of this group. Even now writing all this is incredibly unpleasant, anxiety-inducing and really difficult. I am generally pretty slow to respond to problems, having to take a lot of time to think things over. Yet I did not have that opportunity most of the time, and have been constantly burning out from the overwork placed on me, something that many other comrades have had the misfortune to experience. I have internalized and adopted a lot of toxic, awful behaviors that other people in leadership have exhibited, thinking that it was part of strong leadership, and just being enabled to be my worst self in order to please the people above me. I have been a terrible asshole to my comrades for no good reason at times, I have cancelled people while being a self-righteous prick, so it is probably some cosmic justice that I got to experience a similar treatment eventually. It is a problem endemic to the RCP and this rotten culture is undoubtedly one of the major reasons for the RCPs collapse. I was sure that anything can get sorted out eventually by people working together, trying to improve, creating a platform to resolve problems. But I was evidently wrong, as things only kept on getting worse, and the capacity to even function as a basic activist group has been disappearing. At one point the people in the RCP were creating more problems for themselves than they were creating solutions, it was a vicious cycle that some people are still stuck in. I really wish it would all have been a nightmare I dreamed up, but unfortunately it is a nightmare I keep living in. I hope this can at least serve as some sort of a warning to people who are looking to do good and be active in improving the world around them, so that at least they don’t make the same mistakes mentioned here and don’t get sucked into something that awful like I and many others have.

More to come in the next parts of this story.