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How not to stop the BNP

Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons using their platform

The continued rise of the British National Party raises key questions about the left’s strategy. Ben Lewis takes a look at the Socialist Workers Party’s analysis and argues for a root-and-branch rethink The election of BNP leader Nick Griffin and acolyte Andrew Brons to the European parliament has been endlessly reported in both the bourgeois media ...

SWP: Mother of all splits looms?

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 ...