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AWL versus SWP

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

Libya, anti-imperialism, and the Socialist Party

WL3-34
Author: 
Sean Matgamna

This is a copy-edited and slightly expanded version of the printed text.

Click here for the debate on Libya of which this is part.
Click here to download the printed Workers' Liberty supplement as pdf.
Click here to download the text, as slightly edited and expanded, in pdf format.


Libya, anti-imperialism, and the Socialist Party
Did Taaffe equate the Libyan rebels with the Nicaraguan contras?
Anything other than "absolute opposition" means support?
Intellectual hooliganism and AWL's "evasions"
What is more important in the situation than stopping massacre?
Bishop Taaffe and imperialism
What is the "anti-imperialist" programme in today's world?
From semi-colony to regional power
Taaffe's record as an anti-imperialist
The separation of AWL and the Socialist Party
Militant in the mid 1960s
How did we come to break with Militant? Anti-union laws
What is a Marxist perspective?
Peaceful revolution
Our general critique of Militant's politics
"We can't discuss what Grant and Taaffe can't reply to"

The US in Iraq and union freedoms
Socialists and the European Union
Toadying to Bob Crow
Ireland: why socialists must have a democratic programme
Conclusion: Pretension
Postscript: Militant and the Labour Party, 1969-87 - a strange symbiosis

Les socialistes et l'Europe

Les nations n'ont pas toujours existé. En Europe, la croissance du commerce a créé des unités avec une langue commune, une culture, des lois, un système fiscal et des communications, les États-nations qui se sont développés entre les 16e et 19e siècles.

Venezuela: Le capitalisme d'État de Chavez vacille

Author: 
Pablo Velasco

Traduction d'une article de Pablo Velasco, Solidarity 3/170, 2 April 2010.
 
Une décennie après que Hugo Chavez ait proclamé la «révolution bolivarienne» au Venezuela, son projet est enlisé dans la stagnation. Malgré toute la rhétorique sur le «socialisme du 21e siècle», le régime bonapartiste continue de présider sur un capitalisme vénézuélien et d'étouffer l'émergence d'un mouvement ouvrier indépendant authentique.