It’s becoming increasingly clear, even to commentators on the left that the forces of the far left which once tried to lead the indigenous working classes of Britain and the western world into an imagined utopia no longer believe this is possible.

Prominent left wing spokesmen inside Britain such as Nick Cohen have expressed anxiety and disbelief that a movement that once embraced “equality” for better or worse [usually worse] as its goal is now shacked up with the most virile and expansionist religious movement seen in centuries. The modern Islamic reformation, begun with the oil money of the gulf Arabs, has now spread across the world, travelling on the winds of the internet, of immigration, and of pure hard cash.

Most on the British left in particular see no cause for alarm here, those with the foresight to see what is coming and just exactly who they find themselves in bed with are few and far between. When a communist protester showed up at a joint Marxist/Islamic protest about the recent bombing of Gaza displaying a sign that condemned both Israel and Hamas he was attacked and the placard destroyed. The destroyers were not Muslims of course, but their fellow pale skinned “Comrades”. The enthusiasm for the far left, supposedly the non sectarian political strain of the working classes for the causes of a militant religious ideology is boundless.

By why is this the case? Most left wingers of a certain age who lived through the tumultuous times of the late 70s and early 80s participated in mass actions, the miners strike for one, but in particular the battles the left fought against the National Front. These were heady days for the left, who in modern times struggle to gather 1000 people on their own to crush free speech. In those salad days they could call on a cast of tens of thousands, and many of those thousands were from Islamic communities.

Countless left wing worthies cut their teeth in that battle to destroy even further the fabric of British society. And in that battle they indeed did have many members of the much smaller Islamic community on their side. These people were mostly moderates who had either been born here or had come over in the first rush of commonwealth immigration. Their religious practices were the ones then traditionally practiced on the subcontinent, a variety of Islam that has been tempered by the thousands of years of culture that it encountered and could not destroy after its initial conquest.

Any member of the far left who marches today in an Islamic protest marches with a very different beast. Islam and the original, literal version of Islam promoted by the plethora of Saudi funded mosques across Western Europe have changed that small but worrying Islamic population into a full blown disaster area. And it’s becoming increasingly clear to the populace at large that those who stand up and declare that we have nothing to fear from this development are either being taken for fools or expect the general public to be. In some Suburbs even in Melbourne where I live nationalist recruiting has become a matter of mentioning Islam and then getting out of the way to avoid the spray of pent up indignation. People are not fools.

So why does the far left, the shrinking increasingly irrelevant far left, a creature that exists nowadays only on the scraps the political masters deign to throw to in order to get them to attack the BNP and its members, choose to march alongside them? Even to the point of taking the Islamic agenda over their own?

The answer is devastatingly simple for most of the 20th century the far left thought of the British working class and every other working class in the world come to that, as its own tame pet, something to be trained and coddled for its own good, something to be admonished when it did not do as its master pleased. When increasing wealth and the related political movements across the globe tore apart the status quo in the 70s and 80s the left was shocked to find that the working classes did not want to be their personal serfs anymore.

Apparently working people had dreams and aspirations of their own, and none of those dreams involved being told what to do by an upper middle class twit who had never lifted anything heavier than a pencil.

To say this came as a shock is to understate the case, the left latched around frantically for a rock to hold onto, a reason to exist. They found environmentalism, homosexual activism and other related movements, especially when the wall came down and all hope of Russian tanks storming Paris and London became moot points. But the big cause they found was of ethnic and religious minorities.

Left wingers needed a captive audience; they desperately needed a group that needed them desperately. Sadly the indigenous working class no longer had a bar of them, and as the 90s roared in many of the immigrant groups they had championed as helpless underdogs in need of saving began to open their own businesses, build their own wealth and begin to look after the affairs of their own community. The left began to cling ever tighter to the black and Muslim communities, two groups that seemed incapable of rising by themselves and thanks to the constant nannying of the left seemed very unlikely to ever do so.

But as the black community began to disintegrate after one failed [and expensive] taxpayer funded policy after another, leading to extremely high levels of drug use, domestic violence, street violence and family breakup, the left found it ever harder to mobilize any black radicals in the community. Anyone smart enough to be a radical was also smart enough to get the hell out and buy a house in a safer [and whiter] area.

So by the dawn of the 21st century the British left began to rely almost totally on the Islamic community. This relationship is not even. At the start the Islamic communities needed the organization and political nous that figures like George Galloway could provide. In the recent demonstrations against the English Defense League, demos that on the face of it were reported as being protests of the far left, there was a sea of young Muslim faces with a few lonely left wing placards.

The balance of power in this little relationship has changed. The Islamic community now no longer feels it needs the far left. Outside the universities and the higher up levels of the union movement [almost totally populated by university graduates] there is no far left activist base remaining. The pairing will continue for a while with both parties pretending an alliance, but increasingly the terms of the debate will be set not by the high and mighty left wing intellectuals who once thought they could redesign the world, but by the Islamic community. The tail once wagged the dog, now the dog wags the tail.

The fate of the far left is not hard to imagine, such events have already taken place in the lifetime of many reading this during the 1979 Iranian revolution. The far left activists in the cities regarded themselves as the leaders of the movement to oust the highly unpopular and authoritarian Shah. They looked down on the Islamic fundamentalists and considered them tools against the greater evil who could be easily manipulated by the university educated urban elites. They thought they could pull the strings, just as the left today thinks it can, in order to break down society so it could be built up in their own image. Then the Ayatollah returned from exile Paris and was met by over six million adoring followers.

The urban elites, who thought themselves in control, were swept out of the way. Some merely restructured their thoughts so that they convinced themselves that they had always wanted an absolutist theocracy. A few, not many at all really, stood up for their beliefs against the flow of the monster they had uncorked from its bottle. They were hung by the neck from cranes while the mobs they had sought to control danced and cheered in the streets below.

The establishment as well as the radical left is currently planting the seeds of their own destruction, sadly it seems they plan to take the rest of us with them.