WW archive > Issue 220 - 11 December 1997
SLP AT THE CROSSROADS
Some have been very quick to write obituaries for the Socialist Labour Party. Too quick, says Mark Fischer
Letters
Sub-minimum opportunism; Refreshing change; For optimism, but…; Theoretical monthly; Too intellectual
Nationalist swamp
Party notes
Deeds not words
From ‘The Call’, paper of the British Socialist Party, December 13 1917
The best hope
Around the left
Scargill’s Labour Party?
Simon Harvey of the SLP
Disunity blunts left challenge
This exchange of letters between supporters of the Marxist Bulletin and the SLP Republicans group illustrates the continuing friction between sections of the SLP left. Their inability to unite around a common platform threatens to marginalise democrats in the party
PDS: Germany’s SLP?
The German PDS is viewed by some as a sister organisation of Britain’s SLP. Others contrast this ‘party of recomposition’ favourably to Scargill’s party, citing a broader, more inclusive democracy. PDS member Kathrin Becker examines the reality
German students streik
Socialist Labour conference: Factions square up
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) weighs up the balance of forces in the SLP
One route?
Ronnie McDonald was general secretary of offshore union Oilc from 1992 until his retirement from the post in January. Peter Manson asked him about his decision to join the SLP earlier this year
Fight homophobia
The issue of gay rights is a controversial one in the SLP. Here Peter Tatchell speaks to Mark Fischer about the fight for gay liberation