SWP posters and leaflets at an election rally at George Square, Glasgow

Hunt for Red October

Louis Bayman has written an article calling for a sharp change in the SWP’s culture and strategy if we are to genuinely relate to new movements on the radical left.

How do revolutionary socialists apply pressure? The starting point in forming an answer lies in a present fact of British life: there is a movement out there, and, although it is as not as big as we would like, it is a far larger one than we are adequately involved with… The left is changing, it is regrouping whether or not we want it to and the SWP’s dominance on the far left is, at least for the medium term, over.

► Read “Hunt for Red October” here.

Note: This piece was published before rs21 was established as an independent organisation in January 2014. rs21 was founded by a group of people who had been in the opposition within the SWP and who left in response to its persistent mishandling of rape and sexual harassment allegations against a leading member.