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New SWP website

category national | miscellaneous | news report author Monday March 04, 2002 09:36author by GIno - SWPauthor email swp at clubi dot ieauthor phone 01-87266

Socialist Worker new web site online

The new SWP web site can be found at http://www.swp.ie. No sectarian comments in response to this like my posting concerning the Left Turn magazine in the States please, because its boring me.

Related Link: http://www.swp.ie

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interesting
author by Jpublication date Mon Mar 04, 2002 23:29author address author phone

Gee, that is a lot of Branches, Much more then years ago.

interesting that there is none in Limerick.

Branch structures change
author by A little misleadingpublication date Tue Mar 05, 2002 00:41author address author phone


The number of branches is a little misleading.

The SWP has changed its branch structure over the last few years. Large branches have been divided up into smaller ones. One present day branch, particularly in Dublin or Belfast is probably equal to two old branches.

This change, as far as I can gather, is not unique to the Irish SWP. The British SWP altered its structure to something similar to that of the present Irish group and now has subdivided them again into "cells". With this further step old style weekly branch meetings have been replaced by less frequent multiple branch gatherings.

I think that the theory behind says that we have left a "downturn" period when more rigid and defensive structures were necessary and entered a new period of radicalisation when flexibility will be needed to absorb increased recruitment.

The Irish SWP is certainly bigger than it was so at least some of the branch growth probably reflects real growth.

Perhaps one of the SWP members in these parts could enlighten us more thoroughly?

Dalkey, Killiney, Howth?
author by Lil'pinkLiberal - Champagne'n'BatteredBurger Worker'spublication date Tue Mar 05, 2002 03:27author address author phone

I was pleased to see the TCD branches, but I am disturbed that there is no Howth/Sutton or Dalkey branch. Perhaps someone could be found to be a branch office in these constituencies?

swp lies
author by anonpublication date Tue Mar 05, 2002 14:05author address author phone

A branch can be set up by two people, my time with the horrible swp was dogged by non stop phone calls (after i told them to fuck off). Anyhow they wanted me (after i told them to fuck off) to set up a swp branch in my home town with another person, so in theory new swp branches need only 2 people. How big are they?

Partisan strife
author by Desiree Lumpenprole - PoliticalWhorespublication date Tue Mar 05, 2002 19:12author address author phone

I am dismayed by the comments that have greeted this tremenduous anouncement. Well done the SWP! This is really fabuluous news!!!

To all the rest of you busy knocking this organization I have this to say "how many papers have YOU sold?".

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