Socialist Workers' Student Society
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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.
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.
External Links
SWSS (http://www.swp.org.uk/swss)
