The crisis in the SWP: how not to argue
Some ridiculous things have been said during what passes for debate inside the now much-degraded and damaged Socialist Workers Party (SWP). For example, in their drive to crush internal opponents, the leadership denounced them as “feminists”. The opposition have, apparently, been “contaminated” with ideas from the movement around them, including nasty feminism. From a distance, the AWL has watched supporters of the SWP Central Committee argue something along the lines of: “I used to be a feminist, but then I realised the SWP was right, and what we really need is a socialist revolution”. How...