SWP

AWL versus SWP

Material for an AWL day school, November/ December 2005, and other stuff on the political differences between AWL and SWP.

SWP flounders

Author: 
Martin Thomas

The Socialist Workers' Party (SWP), reeling from the "comrade Delta" storm, has sought to reinvigorate its members by throwing them into campaigning against the bedroom tax and for the NHS.

The formation of the SWP (WL 3/38)

Author: 
Sean Matgamna

This pamphlet covers the pre-history of the SWP in the Socialist Review and IS groups of the 1950s and 1960s, and the period between 1968 and the late 1970s in which the essentials of today's SWP were formed. Written by one of the very few members of the IS National Committee of 1968-71 still active, it dispels myths and identifies some of the deep-set roots of the SWP's current troubles.

North Korea: British left struggles to cope

Author: 
Eric Lee

Socialist Worker last week reported on the escalation of tensions on the Korean peninsula — but in topsy-turvy world of the fast-decaying SWP, it denounced “imperialist war-mongering against North Korea” which “threatened to bring the region to the brink of nuclear war.”