Time to leave the SWP
gary224 | 09.08.2002 06:18
The SWP have now been around for a while. In the 1970s they were gaining popularity but never managed to reach a point where they could be effective.
Personally i joined the SWP when i was 18. Why? cos i was anti-capitalist and i thought they were the natural party to join. Basically after spending 1.5 years in the SWP i left and i regret being part of it.
I am not going to bore you with why i dont like the SWP cos there are so many things to say and so many others on Indymedia regularly critise the SWP.
I think it is now time for the remaining 2,500 SWP members to leave. Most have very little say in how the party is run with (the leader) Chris Bambery and the others in the central committee dominating the party's policies.
There are other groups even worse than the SWP like the SLP and Spartisist League which are not the most pleasent people in the world however there are better alternatives out there. Whether you are a Marxist, Anarchist, Enviromentalist or whatever i think you would be more effective in another group. The SWP are not growing, unpopular and are generally draging the left down.
Personally i joined the SWP when i was 18. Why? cos i was anti-capitalist and i thought they were the natural party to join. Basically after spending 1.5 years in the SWP i left and i regret being part of it.
I am not going to bore you with why i dont like the SWP cos there are so many things to say and so many others on Indymedia regularly critise the SWP.
I think it is now time for the remaining 2,500 SWP members to leave. Most have very little say in how the party is run with (the leader) Chris Bambery and the others in the central committee dominating the party's policies.
There are other groups even worse than the SWP like the SLP and Spartisist League which are not the most pleasent people in the world however there are better alternatives out there. Whether you are a Marxist, Anarchist, Enviromentalist or whatever i think you would be more effective in another group. The SWP are not growing, unpopular and are generally draging the left down.
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