Socialist Workers Party

They went out, tried to kill the bill.

Unfortunately, a bit infested with Socialist Workers Party, who took particular umbrage to this bill.

Although, believe it or not, back then, back in the 90s, people who described themselves as socialists actually had jobs.

You won't believe that.

And when the Ayatollah took over, he rounded up the Tudeh party and he executed its leaders.

You know, just two decades ago in 2004, hard to believe it's two decades ago, but 2004, the Socialist Workers Party joined Muslim activists in Great Britain and they founded something called the Respect Party led by George Galloway, the Marxist anti-Semite.

The Marxists organized it.

The socialist Democrats did.

I mean, we were talking about it in our deep dive on the French riots in which this unholy alliance has also made its presence felt.

But way back in the nineteen nineties, you had figures, particularly on the British left, people like Chris Harman, who was the editor of the Socialist Workers, the in-house publication of the Socialist Worker Party, very explicitly calling for this kind of alliance between leftism and Islamism.

He wrote a fascinating pamphlet called The Prophet and the Proletariat in the nineteen nineties.

The, the title of that thing says it all.

And we were talking about it in our deep dive on the French riots in which this unholy alliance has also made its presence felt.

But way back in the 1990s, you had figures, particularly on the British left, people like Chris Harmon, who was the editor of the Socialist Workers, the in-house publication of the Socialist Worker Party, very explicitly calling for this kind of alliance between leftism and Islamism.

He wrote a fascinating pamphlet called The Prophet and the Proletariat in the 1990s.

The title of that thing says it all.

... largely to criticize the phenomenon, but this, uh, unholy alliance between Islamism and the left, but also something that they seem to be responding to a lot of what was going on in the radical left in Britain.

Socialist Workers Party figures like Chris Harman writing a pamphlet in the 1990s called The Prophet & the Proletariat, a fascinating document [laughs] if ever there was one, making explicitly this point, which is essentially at that point, it, the Islamists, they might be regressive, and they might have anti-modern and views and things that we can't really get on board with.

But in Harman's words, it spoke to a spirit of revolt that could be tapped for progressive purposes.

Yeah.

I do want to importantly shout out that we, I mean, look, this question is becoming important.

Even the SWP, the Socialist Workers Party in Britain, who, you know, if you're familiar, you're familiar, you know what I'm talking about.

But even they are talking about, you know, united front or popular fronts.

You know, this is kind of becoming a fashionable thing.

led by a guy called Alan Woods.

The other one is the Socialist Workers Party.

As far as I can tell, its main guy is a politics professor at King's College London, Alex Kalinikos.

Then there's like your standard fare Stalinists, like the Communist Party of Britain and the Communist Party of Britain, Marxist-Leninist.

But even if you leave them aside for a moment, What does the people's vote issue, the second EU referendum, what does that have to do with, say, the Middle East conflict or climate change and or NHS spending? Nonetheless, you had all of that and you had posters for all of that.

Even the few who were not, which did not say Socialist Workers' Party.

You just have, every time there's a political cause, demonstration, protest, it snowballs, it becomes a bit of an omni-cause, and then you get the people who just enjoy the community spirit, and if that turns chaotic and violent, well, you get even more people who just

enjoy that for its own thing.