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"The miners' strike is an extreme example of what we in the Socialist Workers Party have called the 'downturn' in the movement."
Tony Cliff, Socialist Worker, 14th April 1984
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Material for an AWL day school, November/ December 2005, and other stuff on the political differences between AWL and SWP.
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We need a new Marxist left. The one we have is largely degenerate.
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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is calling for a yes vote in the referendum on Scotland’s constitutional status which is due to be held in 2014.
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In a number of respects, the Unite the Resistance conference held, in effect, by the Socialist Workers’ Party on 14 January was better than the previous weekend’s PCS Left Unity/Socialist Party confer
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Bloomsbury Central Baptist Church, 235 Shaftesbury Ave, WC2H 8EP
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Lucas Arms, 245A Grays Inn Road, London WC1
What went wrong? What are the lessons? What can and should we do to rebuild the revolutionary left?
AWL London forum, with speakers Steve Freeman (Revolutionary Democratic Group) and Sean Matgamna (AWL), both former SWP/IS members.
These days the SWP concentrates its efforts on support for George Galloway, who proclaims himself a "fighter for Muslims", "not as left wing as you might think", opposed to abortion rights, and supporting a points system for immigration control - as well as a long-time friend and associate of Saddam Hussein's deputy Tariq Aziz.
The latest is the SWP inviting Gilad Atzmon, an anti-semitic crank, to its Marxism 2005, and persisting in the face of protest from leftist (including strongly anti-Israeli) Jews, whom Atzmon dismisses as "undercover Zionist agents".
Yet the SWP also lays claim to a political tradition, the "IS tradition", which supposedly differentiated from the ordinary run of revolutionary socialism by a greater emphasis on a rank-and-file orientation, less "vanguardism", less "Third Worldism", and more concern for an independent socialist stance against imperialisms both more prosperous (USA) and less so (USSR).
What went wrong? What are the lessons? What can and should we do to rebuild the revolutionary left?
AWL London forum, with speakers Steve Freeman (Revolutionary Democratic Group) and Sean Matgamna (AWL), both former SWP/IS members.
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By Cathy Nugent
Last month the UN’s nuclear energy watchdog passed a resolution calling on Iran to come clean about whether or not it was developing nuclear weaponry. How has the left responded?
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“Strikes can smash the Tories”. “November 30: our day to smash the Tories”. “Mass strikes can kick out Con-Dems”. “Force Cameron out!”
The text under such headlines in Socialist Worker and The Socialist varies, and sometimes does not really fit the headlines, but the headline message is common and frequent.
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By Ed Maltby and Liam McNulty
On the weekend of 19-20 November we attended the Irish Socialist Workers’ Party’s Marxism Festival.
