Is anyone else hated in name by an international socialist group? Just me?

In 2011 I finished my college thesis (though this was cut from 50 pages to 20 for publication) on 'The Red Clydeside.' During World War I in Glasgow, Scotland, the Glaswegians were suffering the economic effects from the war.

                                               Check out the gun on this guy! Ladies.....

Couple this with a rise in socialists/proto-Marxists and you have a number of uprisings against the government. Later on in their memoirs, the socialists would wax poetic about a revolution that almost was. Of course, when you read what they said at the time they were much more in the vein of Cesar Chavez/Saul Alinsky than Lenin/Mao, and were active supporters of the government.

I turned in my paper, graduated, and didn't think anything of it. I Googled myself one day, because I regularly check to make sure I am the most popular 'Gary Girod' in the world (still am), and it turns out that the International Socialist Group denounced my article, and frequently attacked me in name. 

It's a shame really; I really admire the socialists of the Red Clydeside era, David Kirkwood's 80 year old memoir is one of my prized possessions, and if you could make a Boardwalk Empire series about any other period in history other than prohibition, I would vote for the Red Clydeside. The second most important leader in the movement, William Gallagher, had a father who deserted the British Army. In those days, many deserters were held down and had the letter 'D' carved into their back. Whenever anyone saw him with his shirt off and asked, "What's that for?" he would say, "Decency." That period was everything you could want for an interesting story: a giant war, religious extremism, the birth of feminism, a rising social conscious, class war, and a bunch of interesting characters who were beaten up and wrongfully imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle (this was done to avoid a trial, in which the government knew the agitators would be released. 

                    Unfortunately my photos were deleted, but trust me, it's not as scenic in the stormy dark. 

But I argued that the agitators weren't revolutionary, because they (1) supported and worked with the government, (2) were religious (as compared to all other successful Communist revolutionaries). Instead, I argued that they were occasionally popular labor leaders. That really pissed the ISG off. Especially since I used the word 'labor' instead of 'labour.' 

In the final words of the article: "Red Clydeside is important not as a myth but a moment of fundamental break in Scotland’s development. The working class took to the stage and things changed fundamentally. The militant heritage of these times remains with us today despite the best attempts of the last 30 years to eradicate our organization, our alternative ideas and our history. If we defend the gains of yesterday; we lay the basis for advance tomorrow."

They attacked my college thesis because they thought it was distorting the past and forever denying Scotland's rightful socialist future. 

So they're on to me.