Posts Tagged ‘SWP’
The Holocaust Lies of Gilad Atzmon the anti-Semitic Jazzman
Why Atzmon plays fast and loose with Truth, History and Integrity For those who want an acquaintance with Atzmon, you could do worse than consult my (now out of date) Guide to the Sayings of Gilad Atzmon. Atzmon it should be explained was a famous jazz musician, having won the BBC jazz record of the year…
Read MoreKen Livingstone’s Fainthearted Friends at the Morning Star, Socialist Worker & the Jewish Socialists Group
Lansman & Owen Jones Attacks on Livingstone Only Helps Tom Watson The Right has begun to smell blood. Corbyn was himself originally accused of anti-Semitism by consorting with holocaust deniers such as Paul Eisen. He has been under attack by the Zionist lobby since day one. See for example Jeremy Corbyn’s ‘long-standing links’ with notorious…
Read MoreGilad Atzmon Comes Out – Now an open anti-Semite
I am not a Jew anymore. I despise the Jew in me. I absolutely detest the Jew in you. This blog was set up in 2007 to combat the pernicious influence of Gilad Atzmon, who operated on the fringes of the Palestine solidarity campaign. To me and others anti-Zionist Jews it was clear that Atzmon was, without…
Read MoreWhy I resigned from Left Unity
Feminists Brook no Debate on ‘Safe Spaces’ – Manchester Branch suspensions I resigned from Left Unity nearly a month ago. Set up in a blaze of publicity, it has fallen victim to identity politics and navel gazing. It reports that it has 2,000 members. If so they make next to no impact. There is no…
Read MoreOpen Letter to Left Unity
An Organisation that is Afraid to Campaign Left Unity was formed last year with the many of the members coming from the fall-out in the SWP over Martin Thomas and the question of rape/sexual harrassment. Others are relatively new to politics and of course there are those who are members of existing left groups –…
Read MoreLeft Unity Conference
A banner headline which didn’t match the strap lines Another Missed Opportunity as feminists and reformists link-up Left Unity is the brainchild and founding father, the distinguished socialist film maker Ken Loach who has produced more radical and socialist films that I can remember. Ken Loach – Left Unity’s guiding light According to its own…
Read MoreUK Far-Right Surges to 23%
As the British National Party Lose their Final Seats – UKIP – a party of ‘fruit-cakes’ and ‘closet racists’ [Cameron] rises Nigel Farage, the ‘hail fellow well met’ bloke at home with South Coast prejudices about how they should scrap benefits Historically Britain hasn’t had an equivalent of far-right European parties such as the Front…
Read MoreThe 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…
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