The Socialist Workers' Student Society, commonly known as SWSS (pronounced swizz), is the student section of the British revolutionary socialist group the SWP. It organises mainly in Universities and higher education colleges, and is an active faction in the National Union of Students. On campus, SWSS groups tend to organise what they describe as regular 'activist meetings' as well as more abstract discussions of Marxist ideas, claiming that ideas and activity 'go hand in hand'. On top of this they encourage their members to become involved in other campaign groups (as part of the tactic of united fronts). They have been particulary involved in setting up Stop the War Coalition university groups. Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to direct ones zeal at; hence a student is one who directs zeal at a subject. ... Fist Logo The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is the largest political party of the far left in Britain. ... A faction is a group of people connected by a shared belief or opinion within a larger group. ... The National Union of Students (NUS) is a representative body for the students unions that exist inside the United Kingdom. ... Marxism is the political practice and social theory based on the works of Karl Marx, a 19th century philosopher, economist, journalist, and revolutionary, along with Friedrich Engels. ... The United Front may mean: the Afghani Northern Alliance a Marxist tacic of unity in action; see united front an Indian coalition government, the United Front in Singapore, the United Front in China, the Kuomintang - Communist Party of China alliance, the First United Front during the Northern Expedition, the Second... The Stop the War Coalition is a UK Anti-war group, set up following the September 11, 2001 Terrorist Attacks in the USA, on September 21st, 2001 at a public meeting of over 2,000 people in London. ...

The SWP and its forerunners have long had student members and in the 1950s and 60s they were active in the National Association of Labour Student Organisations (NALSO) in line with the groups policy of membership in the Labour Party. By the early 190s a leading member of the International Socialists, as the SWP was known prior to 1962, became editor of Clarion the NALSO publication. Having departed the Labour Party IS students were active n college based Socialist Societies and then in the Revolutionary Socialist Student Federation. When that body collapsed they operated as the National Organisation of International Socialists Students (NOISS) and from 1977 onwards as the Socialist Worker Student Organisation (SWSO). The last name being changd to SWSS in the early 1980s.

Website

Perhaps counterintuitively, SWSS have not registered www.swss.org.uk as their website - allowing, until recently, an unknown prankster to redirect that website to Conservative Future. Conservative Future is the youth movement of the British Conservative Party. ...

External Links

SWSS (http://www.swp.org.uk/swss)