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End the cycle of splits
24 May 2012
If the left is to build a serious political organisation it will have to facilitate internal dissent, writes Mike Macnair. And that will require both majorities and minorities to act responsibly
Scargill: ‘Keep quiet or get out’
03 Jul 1997
Once again Arthur Scargill lays down the law against democracy in the SLP - this time in his reply to Martin Wicks. The comrade had forwarded him partisan suggestions for extending democracy in the SLP. The document he sent was signed by a number of SLP comrades and published in the Weekly Worker (June 12)
Workers’ unity is central principle
26 Jun 1997
Simon Harvey: SLP news and comment
Marxist Bulletin joins witch hunt
26 Jun 1997
An expelled member of Vauxhall CSLP and supporter of the Marxist Bulletin, Alan Gibson, tries to save himself by condemning his former comrades
Call to SWP minority - ‘Fight openly’
26 Jun 1997
Following the Socialist Workers Party’s decision to contest the Irish general election (see Weekly Worker June 12), a change in policy in Britain too now looks to be just a matter of time. For some time a minority of the SWP leadership, particularly Chris Harman, have been arguing for the organisation to stand its own candidates in elections, and occasionally veiled references to the internal opposition on the question have surfaced in the organisation’s journals. Tom Delargy was expelled from the SWP in 1987 for opposing the leadership and is now active in the Scottish Socialist Alliance. Below we reproduce extracts from the letter he sent to Socialist Worker just before the general election, in which he anticipates a change in line and calls on the organisation to drop its sectarian approach to the rest of the left
Signing up for democracy
26 Jun 1997
Bucket loads of hypocrisy
26 Jun 1997
Open Polemic’s Bob Smith, former ‘representative’ member of the CPGB, mounts his charger once again
For an open journal
19 Jun 1997
More Scargill threats
19 Jun 1997
Correspondence between the SLP’s acting general secretary and Southwark councillor Ian Driver
SLP militants unbowed by intimidation
19 Jun 1997
Socialist Labour democracy campaign launched
Road to nowhere
19 Jun 1997
Much of the left is now talking about a ‘crisis of expectations’ amongst the working class. But is there any truth to it? Last weekend the CPGB organised a round-table discussion on this, under the heading, ‘Where now for the left?’ Eddie Ford reports
Edinburgh farce
19 Jun 1997
Scottish Socialist Alliance divided on Scotland Forward
19 Jun 1997
Resignation pre-empted
19 Jun 1997
Following the entry into the SLP of several members of the Indian Workers Association, led by the ultra-Stalinite Harpal Brar, the leadership in Southall found itself in a minority, outvoted by new members who seem to see their role as being unquestioning foot soldiers of the NEC. Unfortunately, instead of remaining in position to fight for their beliefs, the branch officers announced their intention to resign. Here we reproduce their rather pathetic letter
Call for left cooperation
19 Jun 1997
The following motion, proposed by comrade Tom Delargy of Paisley SSA, was unanimously passed at the SSA’s annual conference on Saturday June 14