The Socialist Party is facing a major split in it's Committee for a Workers International (CWI) due to a couple of their sections undertaking activities that involve things like women's rights. Their small but surprisingly successful Irish section along with groups in Spain & Greece plus some others may see themselves expelled very shortly.
At the heart of the dispute is the vexed question of "Mandelism" (a reference to a deceased leader of the main Fourth International) which in this case means that Peter Taffe has accused his opponents of dropping workers rights in favour of petty bourgeois issue. The workers must always come first except when they work for the Socialist Party itself.
Of course the internal conflict has reached these shores as a small faction are now looking to be expelled by edict on Monday. Thing is several of their full time workers will be included in this forthcoming purge.
Surprisingly or not the SP staff do not belong to a trade union and are now faced with the situation that their wages are being withheld. Imagine what their newspaper would say about any employer who withheld wages before they sacked. Yet in this factional struggle their own staff are treated in this way.
I have no idea how much these people earn but in the old days of Militant their full timers got £50 on top of their state benefits.
Meanwhile in this weeks paper of the Socialist Party one of their members Jeremy Davidson writes:
....employees often get bullied by the incompetent management which chooses to blame the workers instead of taking responsibility for its countless mistakes.
Oh the irony.
Yet another far-left group shows it's true colours. The SWP leadership covered up for a rapist. The Socialist Party starves it's workers.
That's the far left for you comrades.
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