Tag Archives: SWP

Politics of press freedom

Rather than relying on bureaucratic solutions, argues James Turley, the left needs a dynamic approach to the media (first published in the Weekly Worker) Prior to the outrage in Norway, the news agenda had been dominated by the phone-hacking scandal, and the chaos into which it pitched the entire establishment. The left press was no exception. The ...

General strike- and then what?

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On Thursday March 31st the Socialist Workers Party held a public meeting in the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, to lay out their perspectives for the direction of the workers' movement in the aftermath of the massive TUC-organised protest against cuts in London on March 26th. Around fifty people attended, about half of whom were evidently ...

KCL Occupation Report

Sinead Rylance reports on the occupation of the Edmond J Safra Building at Kings College London Around midday on the second national day of action against tuition fees (December 30th) the ‘we support our teachers’ group and some of its supporters occupied the Edmond J Safra building, which has a capacity of ...

EAN: No to unity

Ben Bawerk reports on the conference of the Education Activist Network On Sunday November 1 around 400 students and lecturers (mainly the former) filled King’s College Strand campus to attend the Education Activist Network conference. EAN is the latest ‘broad front’ group of the Socialist Workers Party in the student movement following the ...

Thuggery at ‘Marxism’

Claire Fisher reports on a disturbing outbreak of thuggery at Marxism 2010 - and Zuri Zurowski continues the story. I’m writing as a member of the SWP. Attending Marxism has always been enjoyable for me - the opportunity to listen to debates within a left forum can be inspiring and help foster the belief that we ...

Subtext and loyal opposition

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 ...

Everything from the top

Laurie Smith sees the question of unity being further depoliticised. The May 22 Right to Work campaign meeting at Friends Meeting House in central London was a big success organisationally. Over 600 attended. They were, however, in the main, members of the Socialist Workers Party, although ex-SWPers Chris Nineham and Lindsey German, who are now part ...

Convention Against Fees and Cuts report

Laurie Smith reports on last Saturday’s surprisingly positive conference of leftwing student activists Over 100 student activists gathered on Saturday February 6 for the Convention Against Cuts and Fees. Hosted by University College London Students for Free Education and given the green light by both the Socialist Workers Party’s and Alliance for Workers’ Liberty’s student fronts, ...

Left platform lines up with Moussavi

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 ...

Latest ‘united front’ launched

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 ...

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