PAUL FOOT: Class traitor?

I don’t fucking think so.
Paul Foot was, exceptionally for the SWP, honest about his class background. At meetings across the country he would disarmingly characterise himself as a ‘class traitor’ - resulting in the usual laughter and applause. This amiable self- description has been repeated enthusiastically by SWPers over the years.
He acknowledged it so [...]

Socialist Worker editor went to posh private school!

Bambery, Foot, Callinicos: The Troterati
CHRIS BAMBERY editor of SOCIALIST WORKER and former NATIONAL ORGANISER of the SOCIALIST WORKERS PARTY attended LORETTO private school in Edinburgh. LORETTO is the oldest and poshest private school in Scotland and has close links with the nearby FETTES PUBLIC SCHOOL attended by TONY BLAIR.
Indeed the OLD FETTESIANS and OLD LORETTONIANS [...]