Socialist Workers Party – SWP
Pensions: left leaders in retreat — only the organised rank and file can restart the fight
By Mark Booth AFTER A TURBULENT week of union executive meetings, 300 militants packed into Friends Meeting House for an emergency conference to fight the pensions sell out. It soon became clear to everyone at Unite the Resistance’s gathering that the PCS and NUT leaders would not be calling more strikes in the next few […]
Yes to AV: why all socialists, workers, youth should back change on 5 May
Tomorrow will see the second referendum in British history and the first ever on electoral reform.
SWP: the road to Respect
The Socialist Workers Party has always rejected the need to build itself on the basis of a revolutionary programme and is now building Respect as a populist electoral alliance, and describing it as “the new party”. Luke Cooper traces the evolution of the SWP and argues that this latest move to the right is firmly […]
Socialist Workers Party Left Platform resigns: now get to the root of the matter
The resignation from the Socialist Workers Party of 42 members of the Left Platform, including leading figures such as Lindsey German and John Rees, delivers an important opportunity for SWP and Left Platform members alike to reconsider critical elements of their political tradition.
The crisis in the SWP in Britain
The British SWP is in crisis with a faction fight, expulsions and a major dispute on tactics for the period ahead. Richard Brenner surveys the dispute and examines the linked issues of party democracy, the united front, industrial policy and the fight for a new workers’ party. Britain’s largest socialist group – the Socialist Workers […]
SWP in crisis: what went wrong?
The biggest left group in Britain, the Socialist Workers Party, suffered a serious setback when its Respect project split in November. Simon Hardy explains the political roots of its crisis
SWP: what kind of programme?
Jeremy Dewar on the dilemma facing the Socialist Workers Party The massive vote for Labour was a vote for real change. Revolutionaries know that Blair’s government is committed to less radical change than any Labour government this century. His programme is to provide the best possible conditions for capitalism to continue making profits at our […]
The Politics of the SWP: A Trotskyist Critique [2nd Edition]
A comprehensive critique of the politics of the SWP and IS tradition, covering State Capitalism, Third Campism, the party question, Economism, women, the trade unions, the general strike and Ireland.
