Posts Tagged ‘Martin Smith’
The Self-Destruction of the Socialist Workers Party – Now is the Time for a New Left Party
Sexual Harassment & Alleged Rape Were the Symptoms Lack of Democracy was the Cause Martin Smith on the look-out for teenage SWP members? On Sunday March 10th an Emergency Meeting of the SWP voted to endorse the Central Committee’s [CC] handling of the allegations of rape and sexual harassment against Martin Smith ‘Comrade Delta’, as…
Read MoreWomen’s Liberation & Class Oppression – Camilla Power
The SWP and the Personal is Political I received, out of the blue, an article (see below) from Camilla Power, a socialist Darwinian anthropologist in her words and a feminist. The trigger for the article was the decision by the Socialist Workers Party Central Committee to protect the reputation of one of their own, former…
Read MoreParallels Between the SWP and the WRP?
A Comparison by Simon Pirani formerly of the WRP An interesting article from a former member of the Workers Revolutionary Party Central Committee, Simon Pirani, about the implosion of that group following allegations of rape and sexual assault and violence against its founder, Gerry Healy. However I would suggest that the comparison with the SWP…
Read MoreSWP Central Committee – Rabbits Caught in the Headlights
Gilad Atzmon Rides to the ‘Rescue’ of Martin Smith and the SWP leadership Tony Greenstein Comrade Delta aka Martin Smith at the centre of allegations of rape and sexual harassment I have already posted on the crisis in the SWP, Britain’s largest far-left group. SWP Crisis Over Cover-up of Rape & Sexual Harassment Allegations against…
Read MoreSWP Crisis Over Cover-up of Rape & Sexual Harassment Allegations against former National Secretary Martin Smith
trade-mark SWP badge Martin Smith, former National Secretary of SWP – at the centre of serious allegations of sexual violence Can the SWP survive its own failures of internal democracy? UPDATE Although I didn’t realise it until reading the transcript, the second woman who made a complaint of sexual harassment against Comrade ‘Delta’ has been…
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