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, ...
The Reesites no longer peddle the line that Iran is a democratic country. But despite Lindsey German’s resignation from the SWP, their support for the ‘green movement’, including the butcher Moussavi, shows that the comrades still have not learned what principled international solidarity is, says Tina Becker On February 3 Campaign Iran organised a meeting in ...
What does the SWP majority think democracy looks like?, asks James Turley Last year, the dispute between the majority faction of the Socialist Workers Party central committee and John Rees and his allies erupted, and in the aftermath all manner of smaller complaints began to arise; questions about the political basis of Respect, the party regime and ...
Cat Rylance attended the latest Stop the War demo On Saturday October 24 around 5,000 protestors marched through central London on the Stop the War Coalition-organised demonstration against the war in Afghanistan. Attendance was rather disappointing, especially in view of the fact it seemed virtually to have been promoted by the BBC. The ...
SWP actually aids the imperialists, writes Ben Lewis Around 200 people crammed into the School of Oriental and African Studies on April 27 for a Campaign Iran public meeting entitled 'Obama and Iran'. Doubtless the high turnout was partly due to the fact that - alongside the CI, Campaign Against Sanctions and Military Intervention in Iran ...
All that the SWP’s membership has been offered is a sop, argues James Turley Read the internal documents This year’s Socialist Workers Party conference, held in January, was dramatic. The disagreements at the top of the organisation, which had come to a head with the catastrophic blow-out for the SWP’s Left List in the London assembly elections, ...
No applause for John Rees, a possible reconciliation with George Galloway and behind-the-scenes attempts to wrest control of the Stop the War Coalition away from the Rees-German SWP minority … despite its dull title, the January 24 STWC ‘national activists meeting’ was not without interest, report Tina Becker and Simon Wells Around 60 people attended the ...
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 ...
Lindsey German has declared ‘war’ on the SWP central committee majority, as John Rees prepares to fight back. Editor of the Weekly Worker Peter Manson reports on the burgeoning crisis The Socialist Workers Party leadership has continued the process of disempowering its former number one, John Rees, by recommending that he be removed from the central ...