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list of left criticism of left-wing parties in the United Kingdom
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Active parties then articles in order of category. Citations as below where possible.
Contents
- 1 Labour
- 2 Socialist Workers Party
- 3 Counterfire
- 4 Respect
- 5 Socialist Party of England & Wales
- 6 Communist Party of Britain
- 7 Alliance for Workers' Liberty
- 8 Socialist Labour Party
- 9 Workers Revolutionary Party
- 10 Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)
- 11 Socialist Equality Party
- 12 Socialist Appeal (IMT)
- 13 ICC
Labour[edit]
- Labouring in Vain- a critical history of the Labour Party, Subversion, Anarchist Federation-North (Manchester)
- Hard Labour, Anarchist Federation, Organise! 40, Autumn 1995
- Buick, Adam, Why we don’t need another Labour party, Socialist Standard, August 2009
- Gott, Daniel, Should socialists argue for a vote for Labour?: Against: "a waste of time", Socialist Review, February 2010
- Stack, Pat, Labour: Things didn't get better, Socialist Review, June 2010
- Broder, David, voting labour is not a fall-back option, The Commune, November 19 2009
- Grant, Jim, Why the British left sucks in 2006: Episode VIII - The Labour Party Part 1, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, September 4 2006
- Bairstow, Anthony et al., A vote for Labour means health and education privatisation, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! May 2010
- The Labour Party, 100 years of infamy, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! March 2000
Socialist Workers Party[edit]
- Where the SWP is coming from, Socialist Party of Great Britain Education document, 1995
- The SWP and Trotskyism: Would Trotsky have joined the SWP?, Workers Power, March 5 1993
- Lloyd, Colin and Hoskinsson, Mark, SWP: A turn to the right?, Workers Power, April 4 2001
- How to deal with the SWP, LibCom.org
- How socialist is the Socialist Workers Party, Wildcat, Libcom.org, 1985
- Post: How the SWP backs job cuts, Workers' Liberty, July 17 2004
- Grant, Jim, Why The British Left Sucks in 2006: Episode I - The Not So Phantom Menace, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, January 21 2006
- AWL versus SWP, Workers' Liberty, November 2005
- Palmer, John, The SWP: a relapse into the worst of Trotskyism, Workers' Liberty, June 13 2010
- SWP tells us to vote for imperialism, war, racism and repression, Fight Racism! Fight Imperialism! February 18 2010
- The politics of the SWP - a Trotskyist critique, League for the Fifth International, Workers Power, September 9 2008
- Thomas, Mark, Mark Thomas has had enough of the SWP, New Statesman, May 19 2003
- The SWP, imperialism and the Marxist Tradition pt 2, Permanent Revolution, November 30 2006
- The SWP’s Economics (PR5), Permanent Revolution, October 8 2007
Islam[edit]
- SWP: wrong positions on Iran and Iraq, Workers Power, February 6 1988
- Bates, Gerry, Has the SWP discovered a "Jew-Free" holocaust, Workers' Liberty, August 18 2008
- Bradley, Clive, The Iran-Iraq War, Workers' Liberty, July 2 2000
- SWP vote down womens' rights, Weekly Worker 527, May 6 2004
- Solidarity and SWP's favourite anti-semite, Weekly Worker 664, March 15 2007
- Ford, Eddie, Socialists tail Islamic reaction, Weekly Worker 407, November 8 2001
- Ford, Eddie, SWP backs the mullahs - official, Weekly Worker 668, April 12 2007
- McShane, Anne, Unity with al Sadr, Weekly Worker 694, October 25 2007
- Thomas, Martin, SWP and Islamic clerical fascism: poisoning the new anti-capitalists, Workers' Liberty, June 20 2007
- Mohammad, Sadi, The SWP and political Islam: lending support to anti-worker movement, Workers' Liberty, February 8 2003
- Ismail, Sacha, Islamofascism and the SWP, Workers' Liberty, September 10 2006
- No alliance with fundamentalism!, Workers' Liberty, October 11 2002
Ireland[edit]
- The SWP and British Troops in Ireland, Workers' Liberty
- Dollard, Paddy, Ireland and Slogans, Workers' Liberty, January 1987
Substitutionism[edit]
- Manson, Peter, SWP stunt backfires, Weekly Worker 819, May 27 2010
- Unterrainer, Tom, SWP slogans: "General Strike" or general nonsense?, Workers' Liberty, December 16, 2010
- Thomas, Martin, The SWP and the "IS tradition", Workers' Liberty, June 9 2005
- Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Socialist Workers Party, What Next Journal, 1988
- SWP get police to arrest own side at EDL Newcastle march., Indymedia, 25 May 2013
Democracy[edit]
- Higgins, Jim, More Years for the Locust, 1997
- Manson, Peter, Bureacratic Centralism Lives, Weekly Worker 774, June 18 2009
- Matgamna, Sean, The paradoxes of Tony Cliff: 1917 to 2000 a Critical Memoir, Workers' Liberty 64, September 5 2000
- Anyone for the Vanguard?, Socialist Standard, 1993
- Another leader called Tony, Socialist Standard, 2000
- Turley, James, Extended rally gives leadership free rein, Weekly Worker 848, January 13 2011
- SWP and party democracy, Workers Power, November 5 2008
- Doncaster SWP: Why we resigned, A Very Public Sociologist, July 11 2010
- Norwich SWP resignations, A Very Public Sociologist, October 14 2010
- Turley, James, The fight gets ugly, Weekly Worker 794, November 19 2009
- Unterrainer, Tom, Why I left the SWP, Workers' Liberty, December 11 2007
- Karras, Eric, Expelled by the SWP inquisition, Weekly Worker 391, July 5 2001
- Manson, Peter, SWP and morality, Weekly Worker 681, July 12 2007
- AMM, Democracy and the SWP, Unkant, December 29 2012[1]?
- Jim Jepps, SWP Crisis: Who is saying what
- Monopolise Resistance
- Mike Gonzalez
Women's rights[edit]
- Radical Anthropology Group, SWP 'expulsions' for discussing rape - not for the first time!, 1991
- Laurie Penny, What does SWP's way of dealing with sexual assault tell us, New Statesman
- Peter Manson, Countless zig zags over womens oppression, Weekly Worker 945
2013 Crisis[edit]
- Gerald Downing, Socialist Fight, Socialist Fight
- Laurie Penny, What does SWP's way of dealing with sexual assault tell us, New Statesman
- Jim Jepps, SWP Crisis: Who is saying what
- Urban75 Forums, SWP Expulsions and Squabbles
- Soviet Goon Boy, the Age Gap and why it matters
- Socialism Or Your Money Back, SPGB on the SWP, SPGB, February 19 2013
- Cath Elliot via Jim Denham UNISON’s National Women’s Conference: the “Rape Denial†debate and the SWP, Shiraz Socialist, February 23, 2013
- Brazilian Morenoites, IWL
- WSWS.org, British SWP descend into factional warfare, February 11 2013
- IBT
- Socialist Action
- ISO, The crisis in the SWP-Britain, January 30, 2013
- Counterfire
- [2]
- 'Is The SWP A Dead Duck: Part 2'
The Internet[edit]
Counterfire[edit]
Respect[edit]
Socialist Party of England & Wales[edit]
- Death of a Tendency, Socialist Standard, September 2006
- Moody, Jim, As you mean to go on, Weekly Worker 772, June 04 2009
- Why I resigned from the Socialist Party, A Very Public Sociologist, February 16 2010
- Turley, James, The two souls of socialism, Weekly Worker 841, November 11 2010
- Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Militant, What Next Journal, 1988
- Tourish, Dennis, Ideological Intransigence, Democratic Centralism and Cultism: A Case Study, What Next? number 27, 2003., [3], reply
Communist Party of Britain[edit]
- Haunted by ghosts, Weekly Worker 847, January 06 2011
- Lynch, Dave, Ending of CPB truce, Weekly Worker 788, October 8 2009
- Bellamy, Ron, Official communist opposition, Weekly Worker 355, October 12 2000
- Moody, Jim, As you mean to go on, Weekly Worker 772, June 04 2009
- Why The British Left Sucks In 2006: episode II - Attack of the Bores, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, January 22 2006
- Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Communist Party(s), What Next Journal, 1988
Alliance for Workers' Liberty[edit]
- Anarchist, How to argue badly, Nothing is Ever Lost, March 3 2011
- Manson, Peter, AWL and free discussion, Weekly Worker 746, November 20 2008
- Fischer, Mark, Gagged yet again, Weekly Worker 714, March 27 2008
- Turley, James, ENS must break with AWL's social-imperialism, Weekly Worker 719, May 01 2008
- Watson, Phil, AWL contradictions, Weekly Worker 373, March 01 2001
- Crisp, Ken, Labourism a stinking corpse - Labourism is not the answer, Weekly Worker 719, May 01 2008
- Grant, Jim, Why the British Left Sucks: Appendix: Alliance for Workers' Liberty, Brit Left Series, Tragic Life Stories, Communist Students, May 23 2008
- Red star legacy, Red Party, May 31 2007
- Sullivan, John, As Soon as this Pub Closes: Socialist Organiser, What Next Journal, 1988
- Broder, David, The AWL, Israel and Iran, Shiraz Socialist, August 23 2008
- Bough, Arthur, Syphilitic, Weekly Workers 734 Letters, August 28 2008 Denham, Jim, Response
- Machover, Moshe, Abominable War-mongering Left, Weekly Worker 734, August 28, 2008
- Fischer, Mark, Making themselves look ridiculous, Weekly Worker 734, August 28 2008
- Greenstein, Tony, AWL, Imperialism and Lies, What Next Journal, 2005?
- Boffy's Blog, AWL dig deeper hole, Boffy's Blog, November 3 2011
- Boffy's Blog, AWL apologism sinks to new low on Libya, Boffy's Blog, October 31 2011
Socialist Labour Party[edit]
Workers Revolutionary Party[edit]
- Hate Trotskyists
- Harding, Norman, Staying Red, Index Books, January 2005
- Gerry Healy and the failure of the old British Trotskyist movement
- Hallas, Duncan, Cult comes a cropper, Socialist Review, No.82, December 1985, p.25.
- How the WRP Betrayed Trotskyism
- The Heritage We Defend
Communist Party of Great Britain (PCC)[edit]
- Pearson, John, CPGB Exposed
- Neira, Manny, Ideas: Weekly Worker: A modest proposal
- Hampton, Paul, Third Period Tankie upset