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- Anti-fascist demonstrators gave the English Defence League a nasty shock in Bradford - despite the disgraceful role of Unite Against Fascism and Hope Not Hate.
- What will be the effect of the recent bombings by Republican splinter groups in Northern Ireland? Can they achieve the level of support needed to sustain a military campaign akin to that waged by the Provisional IRA for almost thirty years?
- A call for the labour movement to mobilise to challenge the English Defence League in Bradford on 28 August, from Bradford United Against Racism.
Tony Abbott, a Catholic, a monarchist, an old-fashioned male chauvinist, disdainful of the rights of indigenous Australians, a "climate-change sceptic", an advocate of social spending cuts, and a champion of anti-union laws, could possibly win Australia's federal election on 21 August.- The new issue of Tubeworker welcomes the votes by members of both RMT and TSSA for strikes against London Underground's job cuts, and sets out the issues for taking the fight forward. It also reports on the shocking 'runaway train' incident last week, supports Janine Booth's candidacy for RMT's Executive, and reports on workplace issues from understaffing of stations to lemon-sized dents in train wheels!
- A re-print of an AWL pamphlet from 1994, telling the story of the struggle to save Springdale Nursery in Islington
- Those on the left who call for EDL demonstrations to be banned and for there to be no counter-demonstration miss several important points. In addition to the common sense imperative for the labour movement to stand firm against the threat of the EDL there is an equal imperative to stand side-by-side with those who are threatened.
- Frances Streeting works as a teaching assistant in a secondary school.
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Pat Longman, a revolutionary socialist for 44 years and an activist in the AWL tendency for most of 39 years, died on 2 August 2010, aged 59, from chronic liver disease. A meeting to celebrate her life will take place on 11 September in London.- A review of 'Strategy and Tactics', a new pamphlet by John Rees.
- Natalia Sedova Trotsky's account of how a Stalinist agent struck down the great revolutionary.
- Faced with the world capitalist crisis, why is Socialism in the state it's in?
- Here we reprint a polemic by Pat Longman, a longtime member of the AWL who died recently, against Sheila Rowbotham’s 1979 article “The Women’s Movement and Organising for Socialism”, published in the well-known collection "Beyond the Fragments".
- The intricacies of Irish history and the peculiarities of the Six County/Northern Ireland entity.
- In "The Urgent Tasks of Our Movement" Leninn defines the work that the Russian Marxists are undertaking. It was published in December 1900 in Iskra, No. 1.
- Union leader Jimmy Reid, who led the long-running occupation of Upper Clyde shipyards in 1971-72, has died.
- An article from Solidarity's predecessor, Socialist Organiser, defending the striking miners and their leader Arthur Scargill from the attacks of Jimmy Reid, who died recently.
- In 1982, Pat Longman, a longtime member of the AWL who died recently, was elected to Islington council. Here we reprint an extract from an interview with Pat in our paper 'Socialist Organiser' at the time.
- What revolutionary socialism is, at root, about.
- Trotsky pledges that if the John Dewey inquiry into Stalin's Moscow show trials, where Trotsky though not present had been the chief defendant, finds against him he will voluntarily deliver himself into the hands of Stalin's executioners. He delivered this address by telephone from Mexico to a large New York meeting.
- The Gay Liberation Front was founded forty years ago this year.
- An assessment of the Socialist Labour League, then by far the biggest Trotskyist group in Europe, in response to their assault on a member of the Mandel Fourth International and use of the libel laws to gag comment on it by the left press.
- What should socialists say about the proposed ban on the burqa in France? Yves Coleman of the magazine Ni Patrie Ni Frontières examines the issues.
- Experiences of a woman building worker.
- A critical survey of the Labour Left in the 1980s, written in July 1990, when the Labour Party banned Solidarity's predecessor, Socialist Organiser.
- A review of 'Hell on Wheels: the Success and Failure of Reform in Transport Workers Union Local 100' by Steve Downs.
- The Irish Republican, Robert Emmet, wrote these Lines, about the graves of insurgents killed in the uprisings of 1798. In 1803 he himself at the age of 25 was" hanged, drawn and quartered" - hanged, cut down alive and disembowelled.
- Part 3 of a series on the origins of the Plebs League.
- An interview with Joe Black of the Campaign Against Prison Slavery, an activist group fighting for prisoners’ rights from an “abolitionist” perspective.
- "Are You Making Slaves?" was the title which Jim Larkin's "Irish Worker" gave in 1911 to this article on family violence against children. It was an aspect of the pioneering union's work to civilise the workers grouped under the union banner to fight the employers. It was reprinted in 1993 in the "Against the Tide" column in 'Socialist Organiser'.
Campaigns
- Labour movement and socialist organisations in Pakistan have launched an appeal to help victims of the flooding, now numbered at about 20 million.
- A statement from Leeds Anti-Fascist Network about its mobilisation to stop the English Defence League.
- Following our speaker tour with an Israeli military refuser last year, Workers' Liberty and activists we work with are organising a solidarity delegation to the West Bank and Israel.
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- 21 Sep 2010 - 7:00pm
- 24 Sep 2010 - 6:00pm
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- Trotsky and the Stalinist state: WL 3/31
- The 1939-40 split in the Fourth International: WL 3/30
- The lessons of Stalinism: WL 3/29
- Lenin and the Russian Revolution: WL 3/28
- The Bolshevik-Trotskyist tradition: WL 3/27
- Looking backward. Sean Matgamna reflects on 50 years in the socialist movement: WL 3/26
- The fall of European Stalinism: WL 3/25
- How Mao conquered China: WL 3/24
- Debate on the unions and Labour Party: WL 3/23
- Max Shachtman on Isaac Deutscher's "Trotsky": WL 3/22
- General Strike in France, May/June 1968: WL 3/21
- Arbeiter und Soldat: WL 3/20
- When the workers rise, part two: WL 3/19
- When the workers rise: WL 3/18
- Free trade, fair trade, and socialism: WL 3/17
- Marx's Grundrisse: WL 3/16
- How can we best help the Palestinians? WL 3/15
- Trotsky: The Spartacus of the 20th century: WL 3/14
- Trotskyists and the creation of Israel: WL 3/13
- Israel/Palestine - solidarity yes, boycott no: WL 3/12
- 1917 - revolution for freedom and equality: WL 3/11
- Mexico/ Venezuela: WL 3/10
- Workers' Liberty 3/9: Scotland
- The other history of American Trotskyism: WL 3/8
- What is the Third Camp? WL 3/7
- The betrayal of the Spanish revolution: WL 3/6
- Revolution and counter-revolution in Iran, 1978-9: WL 3/5
- The 1926 general strike: WL 3/4
- Factory bulletins from the early communist movement: WL 3/3
- We Stand For Workers' Liberty: WL 3/2
- Marxism and Religion: WL 3/1
- The history of Bolshevism: WL 3/0
- A Worker's Guide to Ireland