AWL internal documents
Discussion Bulletin 280: draft order paper for AWL conference 2008
Submitted on 12 May, 2008 - 08:39Saturday
11:00 - Registration
11:45 - Standing orders report
12:00 - World economy [document 1]
- Workers' representation after Bournemouth [document 2]
- Addition: Workers' representation and the LRC [amendment 2.1]
- Summings-up and voting: amendment 2.1, document 2, document 1.
13:30 - Lunch break [includes women's commission meeting]
14:45 - Review of the year [document 3]
- Addition on young workers [amendment 3.1]
15:45 - Addresses to conference
16:00 - Break
16:15 - Addition on anti-fascist activity [amendment 3.2]
- Summings-up and voting: amendment 3.2, amendment 3.1, document 3
17:00 - Feminist document [document 4]
- Summing-up and voting: document 4.
18:00 - Close.
Sunday
10:00 - Iran/ Iraq [document 5, document 6, amendment 6.1]
- Summing-up and voting: amendment 6.1, document 6, document 5
12:30 - National Committee hustings
13:00 - Lunch break
14:15 - Climate change [document 7]
- Nuclear power amendment [amendment 7.1]
- Summing-up and voting: amendment 7.1, document 7
16:00 - Internationale.
Discussion Bulletin 279
Submitted on 14 April, 2008 - 20:06Amendments to documents in Discussion Bulletin 278, and further discussion contributions.
* Motion on organising young workers (Dan R)
* Amendment to "counter-motion" on Iran and Iraq (David B)
* Amendment to addition on anti-fascist activity (EC)
* Workers' Representation and LRC (Chris F)
Discussion:
- A transitional programme for iraq (Dan R)
- A note on Dan's contribution (Martin T)
Discussion Bulletin 278: documents for AWL conference 2008
Submitted on 3 April, 2008 - 12:49This bulletin includes the documents already circulated in DB 277, plus the motion on the feminist movement and amendments circulated to date.
*The world economy
- includes proposed additions from Martin T
* Iran and Iraq: AWL NC submission
- incorporates amendments from Sacha
* Iran and Iraq: counter-motion from Daniel R, David B, David K
* Climate change and socialist politics
- incorporates amendments from Tom U; Dave B; Max M; and Paul H
* Amendment on nuclear power (§33) from Martin T
* After Bournemouth
* Review of the Year
- Addition on anti-fascist activity from Tom U
- Addition to Tom's addition from AWL EC
* The feminist movement and us (from Sofie, Cathy N, and a discussion at AWL EC)
Discussion documents:
- Four Thoughts On Iraq (Daniel R)
- Nuclear power: fight the class and democratic issues around its development, not against its development (Martin T)
- On the Middle East, imperialism, and the Third Camp (David B)
- Iraq: don't let the tail of sloganising wag the Marxist dog (Martin T)
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AWL Discussion Bulletin 277: documents for AWL conference 2008
Submitted on 29 February, 2008 - 12:52Download pdf.
Resolution on Workers' Representation after Bournemouth
Submitted on 10 December, 2007 - 15:201. The decisions taken at the 2007 Labour Party conference at Bournemouth have disenfranchised the affiliated trade unions and Constituency Labour Parties. Unless the major unions can be turned round, and forced to push through a reversal of Bournemouth and a restoration of Labour Party democracy, this marks an historic turning point in the process of change that has taken place in the Labour and trade union movement over the last decade.
AWL National Committee resolution on the Labour Party after Bournemouth
Submitted on 1 November, 2007 - 13:47
1. Under the rule changes tabled by Gordon Brown at the end of June, and ratified by the Labour Party conference on 23 September, unions and local Labour Parties are banned from submitting motions on current political issues to Labour Party conference. All the formal powers that conference once held to determine party policy have been transferred to the leadership, which will only have to "consult" with the National Policy Forum, itself a well-controlled and largely impermeable body.
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Discussion Bulletin 276: "After Bournemouth 2"
Submitted on 31 October, 2007 - 15:31
October 2007
From SW
From MR
"Still a workers' party if Bournemouth is consolidated?" - MT
Six notes - MT
Discussion Bulletin 275: "After Bournemouth"
Submitted on 13 October, 2007 - 02:09
October 2007: After Bournemouth
Motion on the Labour Party from AWL EC 21/09/07
What to do with the LRC - CF
London Transport RMT votes for independent candidates - SI
Marxists and the Labour Party - ME
Beating the retreat - MF
Trades Councils - MT
Letter to M - MT
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AWL discussion bulletin 273: material for conference 19-20 May 2007
Submitted on 14 May, 2007 - 14:07Amendment 1.3 (on changing name of the paper) from Stan C
Amendment 5.2 (on general election) from Maria and Tom R
Standing orders
Discussion contributions:
* Working with the LP as it is, not as we wish it to be, by Tom U
* Iraq again, by Clive
* Three letters, by Martin T (on LP; on Iraq; on "Inside Organising")
* Restarting our women's work (background document by various others, edited by Cathy)
Discussion Bulletin 272: draft order paper for AWL conference 19-20 May 2007
Submitted on 4 May, 2007 - 23:34Discussion Bulletin 271
Submitted on 29 March, 2007 - 14:27Documents from AWL NC for AWL conference 19-20 May 2007:
Assessment and Orientation
Education
Feminist work
Iraq
Labour Party
"Inside organising"
Draft motion on the Labour Party for AWL conference
Submitted on 3 March, 2007 - 14:31
Draft motion on the Labour Party, February 2007
Further debate on the Labour Party
Submitted on 11 February, 2007 - 01:08Global warming: document to AWL National Committee
Submitted on 20 January, 2007 - 23:02
By Bruce R
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The TGWU-Amicus merger: two views
Submitted on 5 January, 2007 - 16:10
On the TGWU-Amicus merger, by Tom Rigby
Critical comments, by Martin Thomas
"Inside organising"
Submitted on 24 December, 2006 - 09:26Discussion document adopted at the AWL National Committee 2 December 2006.
Discussion Bulletin 269 (AWL conference 2006)
Submitted on 7 May, 2006 - 08:55Motions passed, defeated, and remitted: click here.
Discussion Bulletin 268
Submitted on 25 April, 2006 - 12:17EC note on anti-racism
Aide-mémoire on “building a Marxist presence in the unions”
All or nothing? A response to Martin (and others) on the cartoons (Bruce R)
Response to Mark and Duncan (on hijab) (Alan T)
Discussion Bulletin 267
Submitted on 24 April, 2006 - 18:19Questions and answers on the hijab (Mark S/ Duncan)
Explanatory gloss to motion on Welfare State campaigning (Mike F)
Discussion Bulletin 266
Submitted on 23 April, 2006 - 01:00Further responses on Iraq and on cartoons.
Discussion Bulletin 265
Submitted on 22 April, 2006 - 14:15Compendium of motions and amendments received for AWL conference 2006. The material in this bulletin has all appeared in other bulletins but is here collected together tidily.
Discussion Bulletin 264
Submitted on 22 April, 2006 - 14:13Final few motions and amendments to AWL conference 2006:
- Amended student report
- Counter-motions and amendments on cartoons
- Amended motion, and further additions, on anti-racism
- Amendment to trade-union document.
Discussion Bulletin 262
Submitted on 14 April, 2006 - 10:43Amended motion on Iraq, plus further amendment from Bruce; response to Bruce on Iraq; response to Mark S and Duncan on cartoons/ veil.
Discussion Bulletin 261
Submitted on 3 April, 2006 - 12:29Compendium of submissions and amendments to AWL conference, as of 31/03/06, collected from DBs 256 to 260. (Includes correction of typos in DB 256).
Discussion Bulletin 260
Submitted on 3 April, 2006 - 12:26Motion on anti-racist work, four additions to trade union document, amendment to cartoon/veil motion, plus discussion contributions on student work and on the cartoons.
Discussion Bulletin 259
Submitted on 23 March, 2006 - 09:55The cartoons and the veil, by Mark Sandell and Duncan Morrison


