Posts Tagged ‘swp’
Kernel of truth
Jack Conrad regrets in the CPGB podcast on ‘SWP rebellion and feminism’ that he has “not heard of any feminist movement raising radical demands for working class women”. If that is true, how thorough was his research? There exist socialist and Marxists feminisms, to name but two schools which speak of class almost incessantly. Even […]
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Official optimism gone mad
published in Weekly Worker, 25th November 2011 “I think today’s turnout is amazing,” announced Lindsey German to the assembled anti-war protesters in her trademark style. It was a case of official optimism gone mad: not only was the turnout at the November 20 Stop the War Coalition demo the poorest in years, but Lindsey’s blatant […]
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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, counterfire, cuba, john rees, socialism, socialist workers party, stop the war, swp
Uncritical Stalinists?
This poster was plastered on the walls of Manchester University by a group called Communist Students last week, inviting to a “debate and discussion on Stalinism, what it is, and why we oppose it”. What does it say in huge letters? “Stalinism is anti-communism”. A clear enough statement, right?
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Following an incident at the SWP’s Marxism 2010 festival (reported here) Claire Fisher and myself sent a readers’ letter to the SWP paper, Socialist Worker. We had the faint hope that honesty and solidarity would prevail over apparatchik attitudes and our letter would get printed. Initially, one Socialist Worker journalist expressed (feigned?) interest in our […]
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The EDL did not turn up to disrupt an SWP event after all. On Wednesday August 11, the Socialist Worker Party’s Dave Renton gave a talk on the history of fighting fascism in the UK at Houseman’s bookshop in central London. Formerly a member of the now […]
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Tags: anti-fascism, edl, English Defence League, islamophobia, neo-fascism, socialist workers party, swp, UAF, unite against fascism
Report from the 1234 Festival, Sat 24th July 2010 in Shoreditch Park, also published in Weekly Worker. From Greenpeace to Amnesty International, from the Metropolitan Police to Lucky Strike and the Socialist Workers Party, everybody was testing their credentials with those trendy young things at the July 24 1234 music festival in Shoreditch Park. “You […]
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A report from the SWP’s ‘Marxism 2010′ Festival by Claire and Zuri – published in Weekly Worker. Claire: I’m writing as a member of the SWP. Attending Marxism has always been enjoyable for me – the opportunity to listen to debates within a left forum can be inspiring and help foster the belief that we […]
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Tags: communist party of great britain, macho insecurity, marxism, marxism 2010, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, unite against fascism
Yesterday, a festival under the banner ‘Love Music Hate Racism’ took place in East London’s Victoria Park to mark the 30th anniversary of Rock Against Racism and raise consciousness about the racist BNP in the run-up to the local elections. 1978′s Rock Against Racism in the same location featured The Clash, Steel Pulse, X-Ray Spex […]
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Tags: anti-racism, bnp, daily mail, london, love music hate racism, Music, Punk, racism, rock against racism, swp, the clash
