Socialist Workers Party (UK)

The Socialist Workers Party (UK) Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom, founded in 1950. Quotes about the Socialist Workers Party SWP organising methods the drearily, omnipresent Socialist Workers Party, unable to pass within 200 miles of a protest movement without parasitically taking it over and sucking all the joy from it had muscled their way in. "They got wind that this was the new big thing coming in, which is what they do, sort of bandwagon onto other people's campaigns so they can promote themselves [...] " Ed Gillett, Party Lines (Pan Macmillan, 2023), quoting Camilla Berens, who campaigned against the 1993 Criminal Justice Act 1993 Criminal Justice Bill. 2013 rape allegations against Martin Smith [...] its belief in its own world-historic importance gives a motive for an attempted cover-up, making abusers feel protected. Tom Walker, an SWP member who resigned over the organisation's handling of Socialist Workers Party (UK)#Internal crisis over allegations of rape rape allegation against one of its leading members (quoted in Laurie Penny, 'What does the SWP's way of dealing with sexual assault allegations tell us about the left?' (2013), The New Statesman) The way such allegations were dealt with – complete with questions about accusers' past relationships and drinking habits that we would instantly, rightly denounce as sexist in any other context – was appalling. It's a terrible problem of democracy, accountability and internal culture that such a situation can occur, as is the fact that those arguing against the official line in a fashion deemed unacceptable to those in charge could be expelled for 'secret factionalism'. China Miéville, following the SWP's handling of Socialist Workers Party (UK)#Internal crisis over allegations of rape rape allegation against one of its leading members (quoted in Laurie Penny, 'What does the SWP's way of dealing with sexual assault allegations tell us about the left?' (2013), The New Statesman) Not that there's anything remotely comic about covered-up rape allegations being handled by a committee partly consisting of the accused's friends, nor the assumption that to do otherwise would be "bourgeois justice" [...] Owen Hatherley, 'A tale of rape claims, abuses of power and the Socialist Workers party' (2013), The Guardian External links Category:Political parties in the United Kingdom