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Another split, another sect
26 Apr 2012
The left must organise on the basis of genuine democratic centralism, argues Ben Lewis
Going out with a bang
17 Jul 1997
Capitulating to the witch hunt
17 Jul 1997
John Stone of the Liaision Committee of Militants for a Revolutionary Communist International replies to Dave Craig’s assessment of the balance of forces in the Socialist Labour Party
Confusion reigns
17 Jul 1997
Around the left
Kirstie Paton’s DNA
17 Jul 1997
Workers Power’s particular brand of ‘Leninist’ discipline leads it into the arms of Tony Blair - without a single voice of opposition
Blow against sectarianism
17 Jul 1997
Simon Harvey
Affiliation as tactic
10 Jul 1997
Cream on it?
10 Jul 1997
Party notes
Revolutionaries or social workers?
03 Jul 1997
Rapprochement: where now?
03 Jul 1997
Has the process ground to a halt? Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group (faction of the SWP) gives his views
Labour day in Detroit
03 Jul 1997
Socialist Labour Party ‘voided’ member and Unison activist Barry Biddulph reports on workers struggle against the odds in the USA
Dismissing the national question
03 Jul 1997
Around the left
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
Drop the dead donkey
26 Jun 1997
Dave Craig of the Revolutionary Democratic Group discusses why he is against a “Duma with full powers”
Climate of mistrust
26 Jun 1997
Nick Wrack resigned as editor of Militant shortly before a special conference of Militant Labour voted to change the organisation’s name to ‘Socialist Party’ at the end of last year. His appearance at the June meeting of the SP’s National Committee caused some surprise, as many comrades were under the impression that he had stood down from that body too. His letter of resignation, reproduced here, has been circulating unofficially within the organisation. It demonstrates that the SP still has a long way to go to achieve the openness necessary in a democratic workers’ party