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

Download all the stuff for the dayschool as pdf (570 Kb) [1], or read individual items below.

"AWL vs SWP" day school, November/ December 2005

Discussion points for the day school [2]

1. Transitional programme vs fake ultra-leftism

Socialism after Stalinism [3], by Sean Matgamna, from How Solidarity Can Change The World

The SWP and its "March on Parliament" [4], by Sean Matgamna, from Socialist Organiser 591, 03/03/94

2. Marxism vs "Apparatus Marxism"

The Degradations of Apparatus Marxism [5], by Jack Cleary, from Workers' Liberty 2/1

3. Striving to be "the memory of the class" vs invention of tradition

Our traditions: where the AWL comes from [6] (document for 1995 AWL conference)

Where the SWP came from [7]

The Great Gadsby: The Paradoxes of Tony Cliff, 1917-2000 [8], from Workers' Liberty 64-5

SWP/ IS: history and myth [9], from Workers' Liberty 42

Leaflets produced for the SWP's "Marxism 2003" (downloadable pdf files)

Leaflets produced for the SWP's "Marxism 2002" (downloadable pdf files)

Should socialists save the pound? (no longer on server: 2003 leaflet is similar)

A class response to globalisation (no longer on server: 2003 leaflet is similar)

Leaflets produced for the SWP's "Marxism 2001" (downloadable pdf files)

A class response to globalisation (no longer on server: 2003 leaflet is similar)

Items prepared for an AWL day school, July 2000

Abridged introduction to a pamphlet, "A tragedy of the left", published in 1991 and now out of print.

John Bloxam and Colin Foster review 'The Great Strike' by Alex Callinicos and Mike Simons, April 1985.

By Clive Bradley, July 1985.

By Clive Bradley, 1988.

Back in 1969 when the British army was first put on the streets in Northern Ireland, the SWP effectively supported them and opposed their withdrawal.

By Paddy Dollard, January 1987.