SWP (Britain) becoming more open?

[The Idler]

Are the SWP (Britain) becoming more open? They seem to publish the current Socialist Worker as a free PDF online. This would seem to be following Counterfire - though without Counterfire's encouragement to print and distribute PDF's freely. More revealingly though the SWP are now publishing previously internal members-only Party Notes online. Perhaps they have taken note of the criticism from outside (such as Weekly Worker or Socialist Unity), although they would never admit it.

Every comrade in a workplace should seek to be known as the ‘26 March person’ – distributing union badges and stickers supporting the march, signing up people for the transport etc
Quite a risky strategy if you value your job.

The anti-cuts formations are crucial places for resistance. We have to be at the centre of them.
On some marches you can see our placards and paper sellers all the way through. On others it’s not so good.
Every member should be encouraged to be part of an anti-cuts group. We have to contest for the direction of the central city-wide groups, but also look to lead in more localised anti-cuts groups.
http://www.swp.org.uk/party-notes

[Q]

It appears the Party Notes on the websites are only partial though. I quote the Weekly Worker of January 6 2011 (http://www.cpgb.org.uk/article.php?article_id=1004216):

Instead of confiding with the membership, the central committee majority ensured that they were little more than hyped-up pep talks. According to the organisation’s internal weekly bulletin, “These meetings are an important opportunity to involve as many of our members in discussing our perspectives and response to the Tory assault. Each area should build these as SWP members’ meetings - ‘Seize the time: build the resistance’” (Party Notes December 8 - the full version, as opposed to what appears on the SWP website).
Emphasis added.

I do welcome this somewhat more open attitude though.

[The Idler]

What does "build these as SWP meetings mean"? Is this in reference to public meetings?

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

What does "build these as SWP meetings mean"? Is this in reference to public meetings?

Branch meetings.

[Admiral Swagmeister G-Funk]

We have to contest for the direction of the central city-wide groups, but also look to lead in more localised anti-cuts groups.
This is the problem with the SWP and most left groups I think.

You can put your notes online all you want, but all the time that you're trying to control movements, you are potentially damaging the prospect of them becoming mass-movements.

[Comrade Wolfie's Very Nearly Banned Adventures]

This is the problem with the SWP and most left groups I think.

You can put your notes online all you want, but all the time that you're trying to control movements, you are potentially damaging the prospect of them becoming mass-movements.

In my experiance, the SWP has a particular fetish for controlling movements.

[Cencus]

I think it's great the SWP is being more open, even if there is still some hidden information. In this day & age it is pretty nigh on impossible to keep anything you don't want seen hidden anyway. How many peeps after a meeting go n spam the whole thing up on twitter anyway? The days of smoke filled back rooms are numbered.


In my experiance, the SWP has a particular fetish for controlling movements.

Most the leftist groups in the U.K. are guilty of this to some degree, how many(not so) united fronts do we have against the cuts, racism, etc. Someone should grab the various heads of these organisations and bang their heads together.

[The Idler]

Branch meetings.
How do you build a public meeting as a branch meeting? Talk about how many newspapers you sold or what?