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Nothing will ever efface for me the memory of my first real strike - on the Salford docks - the first time I saw my class acting as a surging, uncontrolled force breaking the banks of routine capitali
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In August 1969 the major group on the far left in Britain, panicked by the pogroms in Belfast and Derry, were so relieved to see the British troops go into action that for nearly a whole year they dro
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We go to press just before Labour’s special conference vote on Clause Four.
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By Rachel Lever*
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By Ray Challinor
I was involved with the organisation from the first meeting. If I remember correctly that was October 1950.
There were 34 members. But that really exaggerates the size of the organisation. A number of the members had been in the Open Party faction of the Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) — that is, they did not want the RCP to fold up — and were really burnt-out. These people quickly dropped out.
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By Chris Jones*
I joined the International Socialists in 1973 and was finally expelled at the 1994 SWP conference.
When I first came into contact with IS, in the late 1960s, I was still in the Labour Club at Lancaster University. The thing that impressed me was their engagement with current issues.
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The SWP is, despite everything, the biggest self-styled revolutionary Marxist organisation in Britain today. More than that: there are a lot of ex-IS-SWP people around.
It is now what the Healy organisation was in the late 50s and through the 60s — “a machine for maiming militants.”
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By Mark Osborn
The Economist believes that the Algerian government is likely to fall to fundamentalism. If it does, the repercussions will be felt right across the Muslim world and far beyond. The Economist concludes that “we” must “live with Islam,” which is “not like communism, something to be resisted tooth and nail.”
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By Antonio Gramsci
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By Roland Tretchet
This magazine makes no apology for repeating certain basic truths.
