Tag Respect Party

Car crash on the Left. Respect Renewal and SWP

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…

The Left

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…

Dueling Respect meetings

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…

Respect: What comes next

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, SWP, and the shambles

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…