https://socialistworker.co.uk

[balti]

Anyone else read their articles?

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded as the Socialist Review Group by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950, it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977.[1] The party considers itself to be Trotskyist. Cliff and his followers criticised the Soviet Union and its satellites, calling them state capitalist rather than socialist countries.

The SWP has founded several fronts through which they have sought to coordinate and influence leftist action, such as the Anti-Nazi League in the late 1970s.[2] It also formed an alliance with George Galloway and Respect, the dissolution of which in 2007 caused an internal crisis in the SWP. A more serious internal crisis emerged at the beginning of 2013 over allegations of rape and sexual assault made against a leading member of the party.[The SWP's handling of these accusations against the individual known as Comrade Delta, later identified as Martin Smith, led to a significant decline in the party's membership.[5] It also led to a number of formal reviews which resulted in new procedures to support any member who experienced sexual harassment or other forms of oppressive behaviour.

On the international level, the SWP is part of the International Socialist Tendency.

Involvement with other groups

A stall run by the SWP in Trafalgar Square at the 2011 anti-cuts protest in London
The SWP was involved with the Socialist Alliance in England and the Welsh Socialist Alliance. Its Scottish members joined the Scottish Socialist Party as the Socialist Worker Platform in May 2001.The SWP was accused of financial impropriety by Liz Davies[48] and by a former SA press officer of "running" the Alliance into the ground.

In the aftermath of 9/11, the SWP approached other groups, such as the Muslim Association of Britain and the Communist Party of Britain.[50] With them, they launched the Stop the War Coalition, although the SWP ("old hands" at controlling popular fronts, according to the comedian and activist Mark Thomas)[51] was the dominant organisation, The Coalition's aims were to oppose to the invasion of Afghanistan and subsequently Iraq and to campaign against attacks on Muslims. Lindsey German was elected as Convenor and John Rees and Chris Nineham were appointed as national officers, all leading SWP members at the time. The Coalition organised a demonstration on 15 February 2003 when around 750,000 people (according to the Police) or up to 2 million (according to the organisers) marched through London.

The SWP described the Iraqi insurgency as a "resistance" movement against military occupation[57] and endorsed George Galloway's support of Hezbollah, who they described as "the resistance".[58][59] In addition, the Muslim Association of Britain was accused of being a conservative Islamist body[60][61] sharing only anti-western sentiments with groups like the SWP and Respect.[62] Former Socialist Alliance and Stop the War activist and press officer Anna Chen saw Lindsey German's comment "I'm in favour of defending gay rights, but I am not prepared to have it as a shibboleth, [created by] people who ... won't defend George Galloway",[56][63] as the party's equivalent of Labour's revision of Clause IV.[64] According to John Rentoul, the SWP and its allies were not against the war at all, but in favour of Saddam Hussein winning.[65] John Rees has said: "Socialists should unconditionally stand with the oppressed against the oppressor, even if the people who run the oppressed country are undemocratic and persecute minorities, like Saddam Hussein."

Ideology
Communism
Trotskyism
Anti-Stalinism
Revolutionary socialism

Political position Far-left

[jay999]

Nah nah..

Seen them around many times on college campus...Always some long haird guy trying to give you a news article or something.
They will support the very people out to kill you in the name of free speech