[Marxism] SWP Membership figures

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--- Lenin's Tomb <leninstombblog at googlemail.com> wrote:

> If you like, but I'm not discussing a guesstimate, I'm discussing the
> number
> of fully registered and non-registered members.

Whether you call it a "guesstimate" or not, my point stands--it's a
he-said, she-said situation, and with virtually the entire Left*
declining in numbers *and* influence over the past few decades, getting
into squabbles about how many people a particular party "REALLY" has
strikes me as somewhat silly.

Adam L


* Clarification - I'm referring to the Left in the imperialist world,
of course. The Bolivarian Revolution and similar currents in other
parts of the developing world, particularly South America, seem to
indicate that a new Left is gaining momentum in the "global South."