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The Socialist Workers Party (SWP) is one of the largest political parties of the far left in England. It describes its beliefs as revolutionary socialist. It does not currently contest elections as a party but is a member of the Respect coalition which has one MP (who is not a member of the SWP) and a small number of councillors (one of whom, Michael Lavalette, is a member of the SWP). In Scotland the SWP exists as a platform of the Scottish Socialist Party.
The SWP has an industrial department, which co-ordinates its work within the working class movement and a student section, named the Socialist Workers' Student Society which has groups at numerous universities. It participates in a number of united fronts, most notably the Stop the War Coalition. On the international level it leads the Trotskyist organisation the International Socialist Tendency.