Beginning of article  Before you go to a left-wing meeting,
brace yourself for the likelihood that everyone you meet in the
hall will be standing on their head. Do not be surprised to see
communists supporting fascism, feminists throwing their arms
around misogynists and liberals volunteering to be advocates for
tyranny. It's been like this since 9/11 turned the world upside
down, and the temptation for a journalist is to play the cynical
reporter and pretend to be unshockable. I try my best to be a
hard man, but the shocks keep on coming. Take the fates of two
venerable left-wing institutions, the Campaign for Nuclear
Disarmament and Searchlight.    For 18 months I've had CND
workers telling me how they have been forced out by the same
people who disgraced the anti-war movement--the Socialist
Workers Party, Ken Livingstone's homeboys from Socialist Action,
the Jeremy Corbyn wing of the Labour Party ... the friends of
the indefatigable George Galloway, in short. I couldn't see how
to write about it. How could