Five things I learned when leaving the SWP
As some of you will know I was a member of the Socialist Workers Party for about a decade. It’s a long time ago now, […]
Articles by JimJepps
Ralph Miliband – a selection
An archive of Ralph Miliband’s works, if you’re interested in reading him in his own words: Marxists’ Internet Archive In the press; The Independent by Tariq […]
Syria: those on the right who oppose intervention
A few years after the Iraq War had begun I went to a talk by Lindsey German of the Stop the War Coalition (among other […]
Syria: Letter to Frank Dobson
Dear Frank Dobson, with the vote on military intervention in Syria approaching tomorrow I’m writing to ask you to seriously consider voting against any such […]
A cry from history: William Benbow and the Grand National Holiday
In Britain we have had, to my counting, three “General Strike moments”. The 1842 Chartist “Plug Plot Riots“, the nine day general strike in 1926 […]