The SWP

[coventrygull]

 

[8ace]

Shaun Wright-Phillips

 

[captainmorganrum]

South Wales Police?

 

[Martinf]

Socialist Workers Party?

 

[Gwylan]

Sarah What's-her-name Parker?

 

[coventrygull]

...Are internally combusting! LATEST NEWS.This is from the Solomon’s Mindfield site. ************************************************** ****************The letter - which was emailed to Martin Smith, Socialist Workers Party National Secretary, around lunchtime today - is signed by 42 SWP members. A further 18 people who have resigned from the SWP in recent weeks endorse it too. The full lists of names appear at the foot of this post.‘We are writing to resign from the Socialist Workers Party. We do this with great sadness but the events of recent weeks leave us with little choice.The immediate reason for our resignation is the attempt by the Central Committee to stop Lindsey German, the convenor of the Stop the War Coalition, from speaking at a Stop the War meeting in Newcastle. This demand was justified by the claim that the meeting was ‘disputed’ or bogus. In fact, it was a properly constituted Stop the War public meeting, agreed at two consecutive Tyneside steering committees. Two SWP members tried to block the meeting because it clashed with a party branch meeting. The Stop the War meeting was a success, but was boycotted by the local SWP. The Central Committee demanded that Lindsey should not go to the meeting and ‘reserved the right’ to take disciplinary action if she attended.Such sectarian behaviour does enormous damage to the standing of the party in the movement. Unfortunately, it fits into what is now a well-established pattern.For many years, the SWP has played a dynamic role in the development of mass movements in Britain. These achievements were dependent on an open, non-sectarian approach to joint work with others on the left and a systematic commitment to building the movements.The SWP leadership has abandoned this approach. The task of building broad, political opposition in every area to the disasters created by neoliberalism and war is now subordinated to short term party building. We believe this undermines both the movements and the prospects of building an open and effective revolutionary current in the British working class. An authoritarian internal regime has developed as a result of this change in direction. In the run up to the recent party conference, four members of the Left Platform opposition were disciplined, three of them expelled. Since the conference, four of the remaining student comrades at the School of Oriental and African studies in London have been effectively pushed out of the party. A comrade in Newcastle was given an ultimatum to resign from a key position in the local movement in January. He resigned from the party and 10 comrades left in protest at his treatment. The use of disciplinary methods to ‘win’ arguments is completely foreign to the traditions to the SWP and should have no place in the socialist movement.For these reasons we are now submitting our resignations. We do not do so lightly and we will of course remain active socialists and revolutionaries. We all joined the party because we felt it would make us more effective. Sadly, we now feel that is no longer the case. We have, however, enormous respect for the many fine comrades in the SWP and we regard it as essential to continue to work with SWP members in the unions and campaigns, since we all share a broad agreement on the need to confront recession, war and fascism. We remain convinced of the need for revolutionary socialist organisation. In fact, the need for a radical political alternative and resistance on a massive scale has rarely been more urgent.******************************************* *************************

 

[Martinf]

Sheffield Wednesday Pissheads?

 

[coventrygull]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yrn93zOW2cs

oh and this is Martin Smith

 

[Gwylan]

The SWP is always having rows like this - it's the original party of splitters.

 

[Lord Bracknell]

Bring back the International Socialists.

 

[Titanic]

Power to the people! TPF

 

[severnside gull]

The SWP is always having rows like this - it's the original party of splitters.

probably caused by the natural dichotemy which results when most of the "workers" don't actually have a job

 

[coventrygull]

The SWP is always having rows like this - it's the original party of splitters.

This is the big one for the placard wavers best get up to Churchill square to buy a copy of the Socialist Worker. They are going to be collecters items

 

[Trufflehound]

What about the People's Front of Socialist Workers?

 

[xenophon]

Splitters!!

 

[Hatterlovesbrighton]

What about the People's Front of Socialist Workers?

Splitter - You used to be in the Party of Workers who are Socialist.

 

[Milton Keynes Seagull]

Nothing new of course, goes back to the days when old icepick had it in for Leon!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gb_qHP7VaZE

 

[Dandyman]

Probably in the nature of such parties. The British Fascist/Neo-Nazi movement can list the following groups of deviants and weirdos over the years (Cov no doubt can comment on a number of these freaks):


British Brothers League
British Empire Party
British Fascists
British Movement
British National Front
British National Party (1960)
British People's Party
British People's Party (1939)
British Union of Fascists
Column 88
Combat 18
English Defence League
English National Association
English National Party
Europe a Nation
Flag Group
Imperial Fascist League
International Third Position
League of Empire Loyalists
League of Saint George
National Democratic Party (UK, 1966)
National Fascisti
National Fellowship
National Independence Party (UK)
National Labour Party (UK, 1957)
National Party (UK, 1976)
National Socialist Action Party
National Socialist League
National Socialist Movement (UK, 1962)
National Socialist Movement (United Kingdom)
Nordic League
Official National Front
Patriotic Party (UK)
Racial Preservation Society
Racial Volunteer Force
Union Movement
White Defence League
White Nationalist Party

 

[crasher]

But you need the SWP don't you? Just as they need you.

Two irrelevant fringe movements of a few dozen saddoes who need the excitement of "radical" politics and the occasional punch-up to enliven their dreary lives.

 

[Common as Mook]

But you need the SWP don't you? Just as they need you.

Two irrelevant fringe movements of a few dozen saddoes who need the excitement of "radical" politics and the occasional punch-up to enliven their dreary lives.

I believe you have just found a nail and hit it plum on the bonce.