At the AWL's "Ideas for Freedom" weekend event, on 22 June 2013, John Palmer debated with Sean Matgamna on the political tradition of IS, the group which after 1977 became the SWP. Palmer was a leading member of IS from the 1960s through to 1975. Matgamna is a member of the AWL, and was on the National Committee of IS from 1968 to 1971, representing the minority Trotskyist Tendency which was the forerunner of AWL.
Opening speech by Sean Matgamna