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The ISG and the "Marxist tradition"

Submitted on 19 June, 2012 - 12:15

Author:

Dale Street

“We believe that the Marxist tradition is essential for anyone who believes we need radical social change and will attempt to develop Marxist theory. We aim to produce a regular theoretical magazine to provide space for the development of Marxist theory. ... For the Marxist tradition!”

This was the ringing declaration issued by the 39 Scotland-based members of the Socialist Workers Party in April of last year when – for reasons yet to be fully explained – they quit their organisation and formed the International Socialist Group (Scotland).

“Neither plague nor cholera!”: an open letter to the Socialist Workers' Party

Submitted on 13 June, 2012 - 09:12

At the start of June Egyptian activists rallied to remember Khaled Said, a young man killed two years ago by Mubarak’s police, sparking protests that eventually brought down the dictator.

Egypt: vote Muslim Brotherhood?

Submitted on 6 June, 2012 - 09:00

Author:

Clive Bradley

On the face of it, there is some force to the SWP line that voting for the Freedom and Justice Party — the Muslim Brotherhood — in the final round of the Egyptian presidential election is preferable to allowing Ahmed Shafiq, the candidate of the old Mubarak regime, to win (Phil Marfleet, Socialist Worker 2 June).

Scottish gains for SNP and Labour

Submitted on 9 May, 2012 - 08:18

Author:

Dale Street

Labour and the SNP were the winners in last week’s Scottish council elections.

A Galloway spring?

Submitted on 18 April, 2012 - 09:46

Author:

Gerry Bates

Many on the left have seized on George Galloway's startling by-election victory in Bradford West (29 March) as proof that the recently-slowing trickle of left-of-Labour electioneering can now become a surge.

Why I changed my name to sound more Muslim

Submitted on 12 April, 2012 - 14:03

Author:

Sacha Ismail

Recently, someone I know through my student AWL comrades told me about a claim a prominent student SWP member had made about me.

The “second coming” of George Galloway

Submitted on 11 April, 2012 - 09:45

Author:

Dave Osler

Some parts of the left have greeted Respect’s success in Bradford West with what can properly be described as religious enthusiasm.

Revolution in the air, not on the ground?

Submitted on 5 April, 2012 - 08:40

Author:

Humphrey McQueen

Socialist Alternative, a grouping from the same political stable as the SWP-UK but out of favour with the SWP (it links up instead with the ISO-USA), now claims to be the biggest far-left group in Australia, and it could be right.

Sympathy for the Devil

Submitted on 3 April, 2012 - 16:17

Author:

By Eric Lee

Mass murderers, and especially those who execute children at point-blank range, are not normally objects of one’s sympathy.

Will the far left learn from the Toulouse murders?

Submitted on 28 March, 2012 - 12:42

Author:

Yves Coleman

On 19 March, Mohammed Merah, a French citizen of Algerian descent and a self-described member of al Qaeda, killed three Jewish children and an adult at a Jewish school in Toulouse; the previous week he had shot dead three French soldiers of North African origin.