When John Rees justified ditching working-class socialism

Paul Hampton reviews Imperialism and Resistance by John Rees (SWP pamphlet, 2006) John Rees is the new pope of the SWP, establishing himself since Tony Cliff’s death as the main driver of its politics. Yet his new book is remarkably thin: light on the substance of imperialism today, poor on arguments between socialists with absolutely monstrous political conclusions.

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