From "Militant" to the Socialist Party: a collection
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Debating the Socialist Party/ Militant
Socialist Party
SWP one-eighty on Scottish independence, and the return of the prodigal son
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is calling for a yes vote in the referendum on Scotland’s constitutional status which is due to be held in 2014.
Pensions: end the waiting game!
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Ealing and Kirklees are among the latest local government branches of the public services union Unison to demand a special local government conference of the union on pensions, and Oxfordshire Health branch is pushing for a special health conference.
Socialist Party meeting on "The battles to come"
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Date:
13 May, 2010 - 21:30
Location:
Conway Hall, Red Lion Square, London WC1R 4RL
Socialist Party's new electoral initiative in Scotland
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Around 50 people attended a meeting held in Glasgow on 10 December to launch the Socialist Party’s latest Scottish electoral initiative: the Scottish Anti-Cuts Coalition (SACC).
Strikes and shallow slogans
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“Strikes can smash the Tories”. “November 30: our day to smash the Tories”. “Mass strikes can kick out Con-Dems”. “Force Cameron out!”
The text under such headlines in Socialist Worker and The Socialist varies, and sometimes does not really fit the headlines, but the headline message is common and frequent.
It is good that Qaddafi's gone!
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By Martin Thomas
On Sunday 6 November we got a small down-payment towards the debate on Libya between AWL and the Socialist Party which we have been demanding, and the SP has been evading, since SP leader Peter Taaffe put his pen to work on the first of two long (and inaccurate!) polemics against us on the subject, back in April.
Why anti-EUism is not left-wing
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In the 1930s, when the Stalinised Communist movement responded to the rise of National Socialism in part by competing to out-do its nationalism, Trotsky explained what was wrong with that “national communism”.
Turmoil in civil service union
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The ruling Left Unity faction in the civil service union PCS is in turmoil, with the Socialist Party (the main force in LU) withdrawing support from Jane Aitchison, union president in the union’s most important sector, the Department for Work and Pensions.
The Socialist Party leadership: practised liars, but scared to debate
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By Sacha Ismail
The Socialist Party has now published a third article attacking the AWL over Libya.