Posted on February 15th 2010 |
Laurie McCauley 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, [...]
Posted on February 15th 2010 |
Moussavi: no friend of socialists
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 [...]
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 February 4th 2010 |
Dave Isaacson argues for a united revolutionary student organisation
Confused? Us too.
On Saturday February 6 student activists from across the country will be attending the National Convention Against Fees and Cuts hosted by University College London Students for Free Education. The organisers have written that the convention “aims to strengthen and broaden the campaigns against cuts, [...]
Posted on January 24th 2010 |
Ben Lewis reviews Martin Empson’s Marxism and ecology: capitalism, socialism and the future of the planet Bookmarks, pp32, £1.50
In some ways, this Socialist Workers Party pamphlet is a useful read. Although it hardly presents a thoroughgoing critique of capitalism and its plundering of nature, it carries arguments, backed up by numerous figures and statistics, that [...]
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 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 [...]
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