Socialist Workers Party (UK)
The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a far-left political party in the United Kingdom. Founded as the Socialist Review Group by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950, it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977. The party considers itself to be Trotskyist. Cliff and his followers criticised the Soviet Union and its satellites, calling them state capitalist rather than socialist countries.
A stall run by the SWP in Trafalgar Square at the 2011 anti-cuts protest in London
Protesters outside 10 Downing Street calling for David Cameron to resign over the Panama Papers scandal, 9 April 2016
Protest against the Iraq War and George W. Bush in 2008
Far-left politics in the United Kingdom
Far-left politics in the United Kingdom have existed since at least the 1840s, with the formation of various organisations following ideologies such as Marxism, revolutionary socialism, communism, anarchism and syndicalism.
Tomb of Karl Marx at Highgate Cemetery, London. Many far-left groups derive from his ideas.
Eleanor Marx was a member of Britain's earliest Marxist parties.
Arthur MacManus was the chairman of the Communist Party of Great Britain, until his 1927 death.
The New Reasoner was founded by ex-CPGB members in 1957 who created the New Left.
