Bill Logan: PR Man for New Zealand Capitalism

A government “career services” Web site is not where you’d expect the leader of a self-styled Marxist organization to advertise his services. But the misnamed Bolshevik Tendency is not your typical left group. It is led by one Bill Logan, who was expelled from our international tendency in 1979 as a “proven, massive liar and a sexual sociopath who manipulated the private lives of comrades for reasons of power politics and his own aberrant appetites and compulsions in the guise of Marxism” (see the ICL bulletin, The Logan Dossier). On his own Web site, Logan advertises his snake oil services as a “counsellor” and “celebrant.” Logan now also promotes his “profession” on the New Zealand government’s “career services” Web site (www.careers.govt.nz). The same man who tried to force a young woman comrade to have an abortion and, when that failed, pressured her to put her child in a foster home now touts his “life experience”! This doesn’t add much to what we already know about this sociopath. But it does show that in his quest for bourgeois respectability, he’s not beneath becoming the New Zealand government’s poster boy (literally) for his profession of choice!