Left must tell SWP: 'This is not on!"
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. That fed into the theoretical issues. I read the magazine International Socialism. What struck me was their refusal to get involved in “crisis mongering” — in contrast to the Militant and, in particular, Healy’s organisation. The IS seemed to look at the issues in terms of long-term development...