The Socialist Workers Party leadership is attempting to divide the opposition. Taking the bait would be suicide, reckons Paul Demarty When the attack begins, act as one The Socialist Workers Party’s special conference looms ever closer. Though there are still a few aggregates to take place as I write, most of the delegate votes are in, and ...
The leadership can no longer lead - but a positive outcome to the crisis requires more than the removal of the entire CC, argues Paul Demarty The Socialist Workers Party has been waiting a long time for a revolutionary situation. On some occasions, as with the fatuous ‘All out, stay out’ slogan it advanced to striking ...
Recorded at the London Communist Forum hosted by the CPGB on November 11 2012. Lars T Lih is a leading scholar of the Russian Revolution whose work challenges many myths of both establishment and left thought, like the Bolshevik 'party of a new type'. Highly recommended.
Has today's anti-Stalinist left sleepwalked into a Stalinoid conception of 'Bolshevism'? This is an edited and expanded version of the speech delivered by Ben Lewis (CS executive & CPGB) to the March 31-April 1 Platypus convention in Chicago. First published here. I must begin by thanking Platypus for hosting this debate. It is a shame that ...
How far does John Molyneux’s critique of SWP bureaucratic centralism go? Ben Lewis reports. “We don’t usually do this”, said leading Socialist Workers Party member John Molyneux in his opening on ‘Democracy and the revolutionary party’ at this year’s Marxism. Indeed, when comrade Molyneux spoke rather candidly of a “recent period in the SWP where it ...
Another split on the left leads to questions being raised about what passes for ‘democratic centralism’. James Turley looks at the travails of the IMT. The decay of the International Marxist Tendency continues apace. A relatively successful Trotskyist organisation, with roots in the British Militant Tendency and (mostly tiny) sections in a large number of countries, ...
All that was once certain now melts As John Rees launches his long awaited war on the central committee, both factions of the SWP leadership are coming under fire from sections of the membership. Weekly Worker editor Peter Manson reports According to Socialist Workers Party veteran John Molyneux, “a significant democratic upsurge is taking place in the ...