Socialist Workers Party (UK)

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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded as the Socialist Review Group (SRG) by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950 which had split from The Club, it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977. Cliff and his followers criticised the Soviet Union and its satellites, calling them state capitalist rather than truly socialist countries. The SWP has founded several fronts through which they have sought to coordinate and influence leftist action, such as the Anti-Nazi League in the late 1970s. It also formed an alliance with George Galloway and Respect, the dissolution of which in 2007 caused an internal crisis in the SWP. A more serious internal crisis emerged at the beginning of 2013 over allegations of rape and sexual assault made against a leading member of the party. The SWP's handling of these accusations against the individual known as "Comrade Delta", later identified as Martin Smith, led to a significant decline...

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