AWL

Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class which owns the means of production. Society is shaped by the capitalists' relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the environment and much else.

Against the accumulated wealth and power of the capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity.

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty aims to build solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, workers' control and a democracy much fuller than the present, with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats' and managers' privileges.

We fight for the labour movement to break with "social partnership" and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses.

Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, supporting workers' struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping organise rank-and-file groups.

We stand for:

• Independent working-class representation in politics.
• A workers' government, based on and accountable to the labour movement.
• A workers' charter of trade union rights - to organise, to strike, to picket effectively, and to take solidarity action.
• Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education and jobs for all.
• A workers' movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Black and white workers' unity against racism.
• Open borders.
• Global solidarity against global capital - workers everywhere have more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist rulers.
• Democracy at every level of society from the smallest workplace or community to global social organisation.
• Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big and small.
• Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate!

If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell - and join us!

Opposing Labour's ban on Workers' Liberty

As Solidarity goes to press on 21 April, work is advancing on initial signatories to a statement by prominent Labour Party people about the ban on Workers’ Liberty and Solidarity by the National Executive (NEC) on 29 March. The signatories say that they will take up the clause in the ban allowing for continued debate with Workers’ Liberty — one which the NEC had to put in because well-known Labour right-wingers, as well as a range of people on the Labour left too broad for Starmer to purge, have spoken at Workers’ Liberty events or done interviews with Solidarity . Meanwhile the first few...

Keep connecting with Workers’ Liberty to debate!

The ban on Labour members “supporting” Workers’ Liberty passed by the Labour National Executive (NEC) on 29 March includes exemptions allowing people to attend our meetings and so on to “debate” us. Labour Party members should declare now that they will continue to come to our events and debate us. The qualification looks like a “loophole”, but it has been made for us, and not for the other groups banned, because of an important political reality: we are unusual on the left in pro-actively seeking debate. In fact, though Labour’s purge-minded officials may genuinely not understand this, pretty...

Model motion on Labour ban on Workers' Liberty

Please adapt this motion for your union organisation or Labour Party. Please let us know if your organisation has passed it or you want help or advice proposing it: awl@workersliberty.org We are glad that the ban imposed on Workers’ Liberty by the Labour Party National Executive on 29 March 2022 was explicit that debating with Workers’ Liberty is not to be penalised. Even if that is an escape clause to safeguard prominent Labour Party figures both of left and right who have debated with Workers’ Liberty, it establishes the principle: these ideas are good to be debated among socialists. We...

Ban means narrowing Labour

The document put to Labour’s National Executive Committee on 29 March to support a ban on us (which was passed by 20 votes to 11) says it will explain why, but doesn’t. It suggests our “aims and values” are incompatible with those of the Labour Party, but then says nothing more about them. Unlike the people who would ban us, we are open and proud about our aims and values. As explained in Solidarity every week, in our other publications and on our website, we aim to build up a working-class movement to fight capitalism and replace it with socialism. Obviously our politics are radically...

Resist this Labour ban!

On 29 March the Labour Party National Executive Committee (NEC) voted 20-11 to ban Labour members from “supporting” Workers’ Liberty. The document for the NEC suggests our “aims and values” are incompatible with Labour’s, and says it will explain why — but doesn’t. We are open and proud about our “aims and values”. As explained every week in Solidarity, we aim to build up a working-class movement to fight capitalism and replace it with socialism. Our politics are radically different from the Labour leadership’s. But so are those of huge numbers of Labour members. If those pushing the ban were...

Solidarity from Ukraine against Labour ban

UK labour movement delegation meets with Sotsialniy Rukh, February 2022 In the midst of war and brutal social convulsions in Ukraine, Ukrainian socialist organisation Sotsialniy Rukh (Social Movement) sent Workers' Liberty this statement of solidarity against the Labour leadership's attempt to ban us . It is posted on their Facebook page here . These comrades are extremely active in continuing social struggles despite the war, in community organising to help defend Ukraine against the Russian invasion, and in military activities too. Yet they have taken the time to put together this principled...

Unite the left to defend Ukraine

An appeal from the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty to the international left and individual socialists. Comrades: Ukraine is being destroyed by a predatory Russian imperialism. The Ukrainian left and trade unions need our solidarity. Labour movement bodies, working-class communities and numerousleft-wing individuals have mobilisedin solidarity with Ukraine and taken a strong stand against Russia’s invasion.But there is a crisis in the established organisations of the British and international left. It is a scandal that much of the Marxist left will not support Ukraine against Russian imperialism...

Day school celebrates struggles and international solidarity

The audience erupted in cheers for Indian activist Nodeep Kaur when she spoke at our Workers’ Liberty dayschool on 27 November. It was, as one participant described it, “a remarkable moment of international solidarity.” We celebrated the Indian farmers’ recent victory against Modi as our own. It was a rare opportunity to hear Nodeep Kaur herself tell the story of how that victory was won. Learning about how she and her comrades led a mass struggle, building solidarity between farmers and workers across religion and caste, energised us in our own fight to rebuild the left and labour movement...

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