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Posted on February 11th 2010 |   Chris Strafford reports on the ‘Right to Work’ conference
The Socialist Workers Party’s Right to Work conference on Saturday January 30 saw over 800 socialists and trade unionists pack into Manchester’s Central Hall. An excellent turnout, with the SWP bussing in comrades from across the country, to be joined by contingents from other left groups, including [...]
Posted on November 21st 2009 |  Dave Isaacson condemns leading SWP members who continually undermine and sabotage attempts to forge rank and file organisation
There was one significant omission in Jim Moody’s article on the sell-out of the postal strike by the Communication Workers Union leadership, which allowed CWU president Jane Loftus to come out of it looking rather good, when actually [...]
Posted on November 21st 2009 |  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 [...]
Posted on November 17th 2009 |  James Turley offers an appreciation of the life of Chris Harman, 1942-2009
A prominent figure on the British far left for several decades, Chris Harman, has died aged 66. All that time, he was a member of a single organisation.
Perhaps remarkably, that organisation is the Socialist Workers Party – or its antecedents in the shape of [...]
Posted on November 11th 2009 |  Uncanny detective story
James Turley reviews China Miéville’s The city and the city London 2009, pp312, £17.99
China Miéville is one of the foremost writers in contemporary genre fiction. He is somewhat unique in that, unlike many others, his crossover success has not involved disavowing the generic in favour of the more conventionally ‘literary’ – on the [...]
Posted on October 30th 2009 |  Answers needed
James Turley sees SWP politics reduced to ultra-shrill self-parody
It has been a busy week for the Socialist Workers Party – the largest and most visible far-left group in Britain today. Its members and periphery formed the biggest part of Saturday’s demo against the Afghanistan war, as well as the bulk of Thursday’s shrill protest [...]
Posted on October 22nd 2009 |  Things did not go according to plan for the SWP, writes Huw Sheridan
In the squash court beneath Wadham College bar about 40 students gathered on October 15 for an Oxford Socialist Worker Student Society meeting with Alex Callinicos, a leading member of the Socialist Workers Party central committee and noted academic, who was billed [...]
Posted on October 19th 2009 |  Rhetoric, stunts, and divisions
Chris Brandler assesses the left’s mobilisation in Manchester against the English Defence League
The English Defence League managed to pull in around 700 supporters from across the country for its October 10 demonstration in Manchester. They appear to be an odd mix of politically disorientated, white, male workers, football firm hooligans, the sincerely [...]
Posted on July 25th 2009 |  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
Nick Griffin and Andrew Brons using their platform
The election of BNP leader Nick Griffin and acolyte Andrew Brons to the European parliament has been [...]
Posted on July 10th 2009 |  Unremarkable volte-face
The SWP has raised more than a few eyebrows on the left with its coverage of the recent protests in Iran, writes Jim Grant
Allies, opponents and even some members (the editors of the infamous Lenin’s Tomb blog, for example) expected either grim silence or tacit backing for the supposed victor, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. Yet it [...]
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