SWP (USA)
The Party, The Socialist Workers Party 1960-1988, Volume 1: The 60s
Decline and fall: The US SWP’s final embrace of Zionism
Israel blasts Gaza. The SWP’s response to the one-sided slaughter this summer illustrates the political and moral depths to which the group has descended.
By Art Young
September 18, 2014 – Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal -- At its peak in the 1960s and early 1970s the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) in the United States was the largest group to the left of the Communist Party and a major pole of attraction for radicalising youth. It was also the most dynamic and creative Marxist organisation in the USA.
The SWP of today bears no resemblance to that organisation. It now consists of a few hundred members and supporters, many of them in their 50s and older, together with a few dozen followers with the same demographic in other countries. Deliberately cutting itself off from most arenas of struggle, the SWP has little influence and few prospects for renewal. Like most left sects, its prime imperative appears to be the perpetuation of the sect and the position of its maximum leader, Jack Barnes.
Barry Sheppard on Daniel Bensaid's and Ernie Tate's memoirs of the 'tumultuous' 1960s
Paris, May-June 1968.
Caroline Lund: Reflections of a trade union militant and socialist
Caroline Lund at work.
By Barry Sheppard
Barry Sheppard: Three theories of the USSR
"In the US and elsewhere, i
Barry Sheppard's SWP histories an 'eye-opener' for young socialist activist
The Party, The Socialist Workers P