Workers' Liberty

Ken Livingstone, from the 1970s to today: class struggle politics disappeared from Livingstone’s agenda, if they were ever seriously part of it, in the early 1980s.

Paul Hampton of Workers' Liberty debated the nature of Cuba with Bernard Regan, a leading member of the Socialist Teachers' Alliance.

Fred Moseley, Costas Lapvitsas, Leo Panitch, and Simon Mohun on the current financial crisis and what it reveals about the dynamics of capital today.

Here we reprint an editorial on Palestine from the US Marxist newspaper Labor Action. War of Independence or Expansion? appeared on May 24th and 31st 1948, on the eve of Israel’s declaration of independence.

This article traces ideas developed in Workers' Republic, the journal of the Irish Workers' Group, before the Northern Ireland Catholic revolt in 1968; the place of those ideas in the debates of the 1960s; the reassessments necessary after 1968; and mistakes which we now think we made.

Sean Matgamna continues his critical assessment of the AWL tendency's record on Ireland. We were, he argues, partly trapped by letting adherence to the Communist International's injunction to support "revolutionary nationalists" in conflict with the big powers override the awkward realities of Ireland.

The death of Stalinism in China should come soon; but not if it is replaced simply by the open embrace of capitalist chaos. Far better for the Chinese working class to rediscover the militant tradition of its youth, a tradition that is reviving despite eighty years of brutal oppression.

Lenin, Joe Columbo, Rockefeller, Shakespeare, Wernher von Braun, the Pet Pig, Columbus, Conrad Black, Clare Short, Margaret Thatcher...

Nuclear power is dangerous, expensive and unnecessary to cut global greenhouse gas emissions. It is bound up with nuclear weapons.

Logically, it is better to use renewable resources, as long as they do not have unacceptable social or environmental costs. But most of these have the problem that their energy is present in a very dilute form... many are also not constantly available...

Nuclear power? Maybe. Under the same conditions of workers’ control and safety-vetting that we demand for other technologies — why not?

Trotsky, in this pamphlet from 1937, argues that Stalinism was not the logical product of Bolshevism, but of a counter-revolution against Bolshevism - separated from Bolshevism by "a river of blood".

A chronicle and analysis of IS/SWP’s sudden shift in August 1969 from shouting "Troops Out" (when the troops were playing no active role), and effectively advocating Catholic-Protestant civil war, to effectively supporting the troops.

"From a world in which many basic industries and services were run directly by the state - though actually according to the overall interests of the national capitalist class - we have moved to one each Government's role is redefined as making its national economic arena advantageous for the operation of giant multinationals, and especially of international financiers".

An introduction to the life and ideas of the great Irish Marxist James Connolly.

The last two years have seen an upsurge of the Iranian student movement — and a sharp turn to the left.