It is hard to see how this campaign can achieve more than a few extra sympathisers or members for the Socialist Party. It will divert from, rather than contribute to, the necessary battles to mobilise the broad labour movement for the cause of independent working-class political representation, and to unite the left.
When the SWP demanded on a demonstration that women who were not Muslims, or not from those sub-strands of Islam in which head-covering is customary, cover their heads "in solidarity"
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