The interventionist leadership finally grinds into action...

And it's a calamity. Julie Sherry's article in the Guardian is appalling. It dodges every substantial criticism made of the SWP during this crisis. The only defence offered (that the matter was investigated and voted on) is actually what people find MOST offensive about the leadership's handling of the Delta case - that the leadership thought itself capable of investigating then ruling on an allegation of sexual assault. Even if it was a good article it has come out THREE months after the crisis broke; so much for interventionist leadership. 

Here is a link to an IS Blog piece responding to the Guardian article.

The SWP leadership have sown the wind.

Now the SWP must reap the whirlwind. Sad to say a number of us saw this coming. If the In Defence of Our Party faction does not prevail at this Sunday's special conference it means several things. 1) The SWP is a rigged game - IDOOP has more supporters than the CC Faction yet fewer delegates to conference. 2) Either that or the SWP membership are sectarian themselves - or, of course, a combination of the two. 3) Either way the SWP is over. 4) Anybody who cares about the future of socialism in Britain must leave it.