Ben Lewis surveys the British left’s response to the crisis gripping the SWP, and calls for a radical change of culture Judging the crisis at present ripping through the Socialist Workers Party, our writers have has quite rightly stressed that thetrigger that set the whole thing off was the scandal surrounding its former national secretary, Martin Smith. Yet we ...
The defeat of Clare Solomon offers us a snapshot of the student movement, argues Ben Lewis. First published in the Weekly Worker. Elections can be used as a barometer of the class struggle and an insight into the health of our own forces. Notwithstanding the peculiar dynamics within the world of student politics, this ...
Ben Lewis reviews John Rees 'Strategy and tactics: how the left can unite to transform society' Counterfire, 2010, pp65, £4 This short pamphlet is the first written by former Socialist Workers Party leader John Rees under the aegis of his new organisation, Counterfire. If this project's recent news sheet is anything to go by, ...
James Turley looks ahead to the Coalition of Resistance conference and warns against the lack of democracy and a clear programme Of the baker’s dozen anti-cuts campaigns to have sprung up over the last period, the Coalition of Resistance against Cuts and Privatisation makes for the most impressive so far. While the Socialist Workers ...