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TUC to call anti-cuts march for 20 October

The TUC is likely to call another "march for the alternative" on 20 October.

Stop attack on Special Needs kids

Children's Minister Sarah Teather has announced cuts to provision for children with special needs.

Justice for Dayna!

A London Underground worker has been sacked for defending herself against racist abuse.

NUT Exec votes down June strike date

NUT has voted not to strike again on pensions in this school year.

EDL thugs attack socialists, beat up pensioner

On 28 April, members of the racist, far-right English Defence League attacked an SWP stall in south London.

Workers' Liberty # 55

Workers' Liberty Australia # 55: "Refounding" the Queensland labour movement; fighting casualisation; women's rights in North Africa.

Stop the banks strangling Greece!

Results from Greece's election on 6 May have shown that the cuts imposed by the EU, ECB, and IMF are untenable.

Will a Hollande victory change Euro-economics?

François Hollande, who won the presidency of France in the run-off poll on 6 May, has called for a reshaping of European Union economic policy. How far will this go?

Tories' support begins to crumble

Labour gained 823 council seats in the 3 May 2012 local elections. The Tories lost 405, and the Lib Dems 336.

Left victories in NUS can lay ground for new round of student struggles

A report from the 2012 National Union of Students conference, by Workers' Liberty's student fraction.

Expelling London's poor

Working-class families are being pushed out of London by local councils.

Online pamphlets

The heart of the “third camp”

Herman Benson, a veteran of the Trotskyist movement of the 1930s and of the Workers' Party, on the origins of the “third camp”.

How bureaucracy strangled the Russian Revolution -Workers' Liberty 3/37

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Economists debate Europe

What shapes the EU's economic policies, and how rigid are the constraints? Evidence from an economists' conference on the crisis.

North Korea: why are unions silent?

British unions pride themselves on their solidarity campaigns in support of workers in Palestine, Colombia, Venezuela and Cuba, but never speak out in defence of those workers who live in North Korea, a country that is effectively a giant prison.

Four programmes for Euro-crisis

The election results in France and Greece have thrown economic policy in the eurozone into flux.

Dave Spencer, 1940-2012

Dave Spencer died on 24 April 2012, at the age of 71.

Profiteers bleeding the NHS

The effect of the Health and Social Care Act will be to “liberate” the private health firms to make huge profits at the expense of patients and healthworkers.

Marx: the shortlist

An attempt to establish a list of "basic texts", and describe briefly their context and what they cover.

'Apparatus Marxism', Twin of 'Academic Marxism'

In post-Trotsky “kitsch Trotskyism", the tendency over decades is for “the party" and what is considered to be good for “the party” to become the all-defining supreme good..,.

What is Trotskyism?

"Trotskyism is the defence of the great and fundamental principles of the Russian Bolshevik revolution and the Communist International, which it brought into existence. Trotskyism is the principle of workers’ democracy, of the struggle for democracy and socialism..."

Libya: the struggle for a constitution

The upcoming election in Libya will be critical for workers’ and women’s organisation and defending the political gains already won against an assertive new political Islam in North Africa.

Fight for a workers' government!

Fight to rebuild and revitalise the labour movement, and focus it on winning a government which will serve the working class as the Tories serve the bosses.

Uses of religion

Richard Dawkins and the scientific basis for religion.

No Keynesians in the Netherlands?

Despite the collapse of the Netherlands' right-wing, pro-cuts coalition government, there seem to be few Keynesian voices there.

Socialists and crises

Capitalist crises will not automatically boost support for socialist ideas.

Trotskyism or Chameleonism?

Trotskyism or Chameleonism? The main document of the Trotskyist side in the faction fight in the Irish Workers' Group in 1967-8.

A Socialist Programme for Poland

A declaration issued by a workers' committee in Poland in 1989. Published in our pamphlet "Eastern Europe: towards capitalism or workers' liberty?"

Stop anti-choice harassment!

Feminists confronted anti-abortion activists attempting to blockade a clinic in Essex.

Blairite party-within-a-party is a structural obstacle to Labour's revival

At the heart of Blairite ideology is a rejection of the politics of class and equality, and of the organisations that created Labour to promote them.

What is Leninism?

This excerpt from Leon Trotsky’s “New Course”, written in December 1923, delineates the fundamental characteristics of the Bolshevism which Trotsky advocated and defended against the encroachment of Stalinism.

Fighting the Tories: what next?

The 30 June and 30 November strikes made the organised working class a visible social force in a way not seen in a generation. Many young workers who struck for the first time have learned about the power of organised labour.

Saving the Children of the Dublin Strikers in 1913: Organiser Dora B. Montefiore's Account

Catholic sectarianism in the Dublin Labour War of 1913-14

Connolly: hero of the Easter Rising

A 1947 article on James Connolly in Workers' Republic, the journal of the Revolutionary Socialist Party, Irish Section of the Fourth International, reproduced in Labor Action (paper of the US Trotskyist group led by Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, and others).

Who Was James Connolly?

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

The poverty of anti-racism

The negative term "anti-racism" requires positive content: workers of all skin colours and origins, of all religions and none, unite to fight the bosses!

Un appel au NPA: non à la scission !

Pour le NPA, scissionner maintenant serait un revers considérable, pour nous tous qui se battons pour l’auto-émancipation de la classe ouvrière à travers toute l'Europe.

Getting AWL Wrong: Lies, Misunderstandings, Our "Shachtmanism".

A series of articles on the politics and history of the Alliance For Workers Liberty by one of its founding members

Marxism and the Irish revolution

A short discussion of Ireland as it has been depicted in modern "Marxism", and in "The Communists and the Irish revolution: the Russian revolutionaries on the Irish National Question, 1895-1924", edited by Rayner Lysaght.

Protest against the NHS profiteers 30 May

17:00-18:30, Wednesday 30 May, St Vincent’s House, 21 Great Winchester Street, London EC2N 2JA

Ideas for Freedom 2012: What is capitalism? Can it last?

Ideas for Freedom, the annual weekend of socialist discussion and debate hosted by Workers' Liberty, will take place in London on 29 June-1 July 2012.

Marxism and art (AWL London forum)

17 May, 2012 - 19:00, at the Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, WC1X 8JR. Speakers: Clive Bradley, Daniel Randall.

"The Treason of the Intellectuals": buy here and contribute to AWL fund drive

"The Treason of the Intellectuals, and other political verse" by Sean Matgamna includes political verse previously published in Solidarity and its forerunners. All proceeds from sales of the book, above printing and dispatch costs, go to the AWL fund drive.

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