In April 2008 Egypt’s interior ministry was faced with a dilemma. Should it send state security forces to Mahalla al-Kubra, the restive industrial town in the Nile Delta, or to Egypt’s border with Gaza, where it feared hungry Palestinians would attempt another breakout.
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) held its annual conference last weekend in London.
Chris Harman, editor of the International Socialism journal, introduced the opening session on the state of the capitalist system held on Friday evening.
A debate on Sunday focused on the importance of building the SWP to help resist the effects of the economic crisis and imperialist wars.
Lindsey German introduced a session on imperialism and the Stop the War Coalition.
The session on responding to the economic crisis saw a productive discussion of strategies for encouraging working class resistance.
Alex Callinicos introduced a session looking at the party’s handling of the 2007 split in Respect and the issues that this threw up regarding the SWP’s internal life.
At its annual conference last weekend the Socialist Workers Party (SWP) faced one of its biggest tests in three decades.
Conference established a commission that will spend the next few months examining ways of strengthening party democracy.
T he 19th century saw the development and growth of workers’ struggles and organisation in Wales. The emergence of Chartism—which demanded the vote and political representation for workers—galvanised people across Britain.
The economic crisis that swept the globe in 2008 provoked debate about whether individual states or trade blocs could insulate themselves from the international turmoil through "protectionist" economic measures.
On 28 December, Israel bombed a truck in Gaza, killing several bystanders. The Israeli army celebrated this strike by publishing video footage of it on its YouTube page.
