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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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Labour and the SNP were the winners in last week’s Scottish council elections.
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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.
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Recently, someone I know through my student AWL comrades told me about a claim a prominent student SWP member had made about me.
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Some parts of the left have greeted Respect’s success in Bradford West with what can properly be described as religious enthusiasm.
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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.
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Mass murderers, and especially those who execute children at point-blank range, are not normally objects of one’s sympathy.
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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.
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To turn round the public sector pensions campaign now will need not much less than a miracle.
