Weekly Worker issue 944 - January 10 2013
SWP conference: Comrades in the SWP, rebel!
The central committee was delivered a body blow at this weekend’s conference - but for dissidents the fight must go on, argues Paul Demarty
A lot can happen in a few short weeks. The last issue of this paper reported the expulsions of four Socialist Workers Party members, on charges straight out of the imagination of Franz Kafka.1 Between then and the January 4-6 conference, it is fair to say that the SWP has had a busy holiday season. Two substantial factions declared themselves, and the central committee found itself split at the 11th hour.
Letters
SWP crisis; Slate system; Party line; So many groups; Quote, unquote; ‘Anti-Germans’?; Agitation; Divide and rule; Chastened;
'Official' CPGB History: Scotching the myths
The history of the ‘official’ CPGB was much more complex than ‘tankies versus Euros’. This is the book-launch speech given by Lawrence Parker in December
SWP's Tom Walker: Why I am resigning
Tom Walker, (now former) Socialist Worker journalist, argues that the time has come to leave the SWP
Israel-Palestine: Race against history
What future for Israel? asks Moshé Machover
Moshé Machover review: The intersemitic crisis
Chris Gray reviews: Moshé Machover, 'Israelis and Palestinians: conflict and resolution', Haymarket Books, 2012, pp327, £17.99
USSR polemic: In defence of defencism
The Soviet Union did indeed feature a form a form of planning, argues Jim Creegan in his reply to Paul Flewers
NUM in court: Arthur Scargill’s dacha debacle
David Douglass comments on the decline and fall of Arthur Scargill's reputation
Fighting fund: Hefty support
Robbie Rix is pleased to see comrades starting the first fighting fund of the year with a bang
Supplement: Origins of the crisis in the SWP - part one
The Soviet Union question, by Jack Conrad (pdf available here)
