Socialist Workers party

The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is a Trotskyist political party in the United Kingdom. Founded as the Socialist Review Group (SRG) by supporters of Tony Cliff in 1950 which had split from The Club, it became the International Socialists in 1962 and the SWP in 1977. Cliff and his followers criticised the Soviet Union and its satellites, calling them state capitalist rather than truly socialist countries.