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Probably the "weightiest" item so far in the literature of the Galloway side of the current split in Respect is a long open letter to the SWP from Socialist Worker New Zealand, available for example on the Socialist Unity blog.
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See attachments for the leaflet we distributed at the conference.
The Stop The War Coalition conference, which took place in London on 27 October, featured Somaye Zadeh from the SWP-led group Campaign Iran telling us that "the lies about Iran" aren’t true.
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As against George Galloway and his close friends, our sympathies in the split now taking place in Respect cannot but be with the SWP.
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It seems increasingly unlikely that the Respect conference on 17-18 November will happen at all. The Galloway faction has declared that "We no longer have confidence that the conference called for 17/18 November will be validly constituted".
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Four of the eleven Respect councillors in Tower Hamlets - the borough which contains over a quarter of Respect's entire national memhership - have resigned the Respect whip.
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Linda Smith, chair of Respect, an FBU activist previously close to the SWP, has published a sort of manifesto for the anti-SWP, pro-Galloway side of the row in Respect.
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The Socialist Workers' Party (SWP) has finally gone public on the impending split in Respect, the coalition it set up with George Galloway MP in early 2004.
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A blast by leading SWP member Kevin Ovenden (who has now been expelled) against the SWP Central Committee has been published on the Socialist Unity blog.
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A split in Respect now seems almost inevitable, around its planned conference on 17-18 November if not at an emergency meeting of its National Council called for 28 October. The emergency meeting has been called on her personal authority by Respect chair Linda Smith, citing three concerns.
