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Red Pepper on the Respect / SWP rupture. The SWP will carry on in the original organisation. But without the strongholds of Tower Hamlets and Birmingham and national figures like Galloway and Yaqoob, not to mention a distinct lack of coalition partners, it is difficult to see it going far. Meanwhile, the other side [...] It’s time for the fractured Left to join together in a new coalition, says Socialist Unity, following the conferences over the past weekend in Britain by Respect and Respect Renewal. They call for an organization simply called ‘The Left,” a fresh start, free from the current heavy baggage. That way there won’t be infighting and [...] Derek Wall of the Green Party of England and Wales spoke at both conferences, Respect and Respect Renewal. I don’t think either RESPECT is going to fly, although I would like to see Greens work with socialists, the socialists outside the Green Party are painfully divided. I think I was invited to talk about ecosocialism [...] Excellent overview of the choices now facing the Respect Party, sans any SWP influence. Choices: Form a real Left party or get subsumed by monied interests and lose relevance. Respect, the primary Left party in Britain has fractured. Socialist Workers Party organized a coup and jacked the party apparatus. So, the non-SWP members of Respect, including Member of Parliament George Galloway, will be holding a Respect Renewal conference on Nov 17 to form a new party. SWP will also have a conference, no [...] The rupture seems complete. SWP, the Marxist vanguard party that burrowed itself into Respect, has apparently succeeded in mangling, maybe even destroying it, as well as hurting themselves too. And here I thought solidarity was a bedrock principle of Marxism, silly me. Whether the rupture was precipitated by Trotskyite design or simple blundering is unclear. [...] The Socialist Workers Party (UK) has purged three high visibility members in a fight ostensibly about whether they should be allowed to hold posts within Respect, the left wing party co-founded by member of parliament George Galloway. But the fight seems more about the Central Committee of SWP wanting to maintain control than anything else. [...] |  | ||||
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