Posts Tagged ‘the left’
A report from the Laurie Penny vs. AWL debate on 27th Jan 2011 in central London “If you have come to see a bloodbath, you’re in the wrong place”, announced Alliance for Workers Liberty member Ed Maltby. No worries Ed, I didn’t expect that. After all, various […]
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Tags: alliance for workers liberty, anarchism, laurie penny, leninism, marxism, socialist workers party, student leaders, student protests, the left
Poll tax reminiscences
Published in Weekly Worker, 11th November 2011 At SPEW’s ‘Socialism 2009′ school, Robin Clapp told us how we beat the Tories last time around “Thatcher thought that Neil Kinnock and his followers in the Labour Party were a piece of piss,” reminisced a veteran of the […]
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Tags: anti-cuts, labour party, militant tendency, socialism, socialism 2010, socialist party, socialist party of england and wales, SPEW, the left
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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Tags: communism, communist party of great britain, cpgb, marxism, socialism, socialist workers party, stalinism, swp, the left
