Blogs Posts on "Swp"

THE RISE AND FALL OF “RANK AND FILEISM” - THE SWP AND THE UNIONS by Socialist Unity on Nov 20, 2009The recent decision of Jane Loftus, president of the CWU, to leave membership of the SWP exposes sharply the under-theorised nature of the SWP’s current industrial politics. So as I have recently had an opportunity to read the SWP’s indus...

JANE LOFTUS RESIGNS FROM SWP by Socialist Unity on Nov 19, 2009As I understand it, Jane Loftus, President of the CWU, and the SWP’s most highly placed trade union militant has resigned from the organisation, according to my source: Announced at Brent postal workers’ support group last night that, ask...

SWP - ANOTHER EXPULSION by Socialist Unity on Nov 15, 2009Alex Snowdon, who writes the Luna17 blog, reports his expulsion yesterday from the SWP: I was expelled from the Socialist Workers Party today, following my disputes committee hearing in Newcastle this afternoon. I joined the SWP in October 1992, shor...

RIP Chris Harman by Socialist Unity on Nov 7, 2009Very sad and totally unexpected. More at Luna 17 and Lenin’s Tomb...

An Interview with George Galloway by The Third Estate on Oct 13, 2009Walking through security at Portcullis House, the fabulously expensive building standing adjacent to the Houses of Parliament, is a bit like going through any airport anywhere in the world. Making your way through the spacious courtyard, though, past...

RIFT IN THE SWP OVER STUDENT WORK? by Socialist Unity on Oct 13, 2009I am hearing rumours that two leading SWP students, Clare S and James M (relatively well known from the blogging world) have been suspended from the SWP, seemingly because the SWP student group (SWSS) at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SO...

“RAGE AGAINST LABOUR”?? - WHOSE SIDE ARE YOU ON? WHAT PLANET ARE YOU ON? by Socialist Unity on Oct 7, 2009  There is an interesting discussion here from Councillor Susan Press, about the recent Convention of the Left and demonstration in Brighton. (It is perhaps worth mentioning that although she refers to the SWP, other commenters have suggested that t...

Review: Chris Harman, Zombie Capitalism by The Third Estate on Sep 25, 2009In capitalism’s early life Marx compared capital to a vampire, that ‘only lives by sucking living labour, and lives the more, the more labour it sucks’. Chris Harman thinks a different horror staple is appropriate for the systemR...

CHANGES IN THE LEADERSHIP by Socialist Unity on Sep 24, 2009Ok, I can take a hint. After one or two comments appearing here rumouring dramatic changes in the leadership of the SWP, that  might be what some of you want to talk about. Chris Bambury has apparently resigned as editor from Socialist Worker, afte...

INTERVIEW WITH MARK STEEL by Socialist Unity on Jun 22, 2009There’s a bit in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan  where the eponymous character starts paraphrasing Moby Dick. “I’ll chase him round the moons of Nibia and round the Antares Maelstrom and round Perdition’s flames before I give him up!” he...