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Two basic texts for new readers on what we mean by workers' rule and by socialism: America under the workers' rule and What a Socialist America will look like, by James P Cannon
New basic education programme (2011) based on the AWL pamphlet "We Stand For Workers' Liberty" (12 sessions)
AWL's short "first six months" reading list for activists
We Stand For Workers' Liberty (AWL pamphlet)
Short course on Marxist essentials (6 sessions).
Marxism and Trade Unions (6 sessions)
Socialism and Democracy: a debate with Michael Foot (AWL pamphlet)
Women's Oppression, Feminism and the Left (collection of readings)
Old AWL basic political education course (34 sessions).
Six Marxist texts study course (6 sessions)
Study course on Marx's Capital (10 sessions)
Karl Marx's Capital, volume 1, abridged by Otto Ruhle
Capital tutors' school, for people leading sessions in the course on Capital
Wage-labour and profit: PowerPoint presentation
Notes on Marx's Wages, Price, and Profit
AWL day school 2007: Marx's Capital
Note on the word "valorize" in Fernbach's translation of Capital
Communist Manifesto: study notes
Study guide to The Fate of the Russian Revolution
History, traditions, and ideas of the AWL: London AWL study course, 2008-9. See also chronology and texts from an AWL week school on AWL history, 2009.
"Workers' government": what it means
Trotsky: outline for discussion session (by Paul Hampton, from AWL winter school November 2009)
Capitalist crisis and workers' plan: London AWL study course, 2008-9
Socialists and Europe: N E London AWL study course, 2012
AWL day schools 2008: globalisation, imperialism, political Islam, Israel-Palestine
AWL day school 2007: Labour Party
AWL day school 2007: "Twelve debates"
AWL day school 2006: Israel-Palestine
AWL day school 2006: revolutionary party
AWL day school 2005: globalisation and imperialism
AWL day school 2005: Marxists and the trade unions
What Is To Be Done?, by Lenin: study guide. See also:
- The Bolsheviks as they really were, by Pierre Broué
- Propaganda and agitation: what they mean. Excerpts from AWL publications, and Plekhanov's classic discussion
- notes on Lars Lih's Lenin Rediscovered
State and Revolution, by Lenin: tutor notes for a study course
Historical materialism: what is it? Short explanations by Marx and Engels
Revolution Betrayed: discussion points
Wage Labour and Capital: discussion points
The War and the International (Trotsky): discussion points
The New Course (Trotsky): discussion points
Lessons of October (Trotsky): discussion points
What Now?, from The Third International After Lenin (Trotsky): discussion points
Anti-Dühring (Engels): discussion points
Trotsky on the united front against fascism in Germany: discussion points
Rosa Luxemburg's "The Mass Strike": discussion points
Marx's "18th Brumaire": background notes
Theses on Feuerbach: background notes
The Poverty of Philosophy: notes for study sessions
Engels' "Ludwig Feuerbach": notes and talking points
Notes on James P Cannon's three "party" books
Lenin (4 sessions)
Marxism, anarchism, and syndicalism (from AWL week schools December/January 2007/8)
Workers' Liberty and the politics of anarchism (articles and debates)
Gramsci study course (six sessions)
Notes on the "Selections from the Prison Notebooks" (Gramsci)
Gramsci's Prison Notebooks - notes from Brisbane study course initiated by Workers' Liberty, 2008
AWL week school 2007. Sessions: 1. Skills; 2. Why the working class?/ How to do educationals; 3. Marxism and Economism; 4. Marxism, Anarchism, and Zapatism; 5. The National Question and Israel-Palestine in Particular; 6. Debating and arguing
AWL week school 2010: Sessions: 1. Practical skills; 2. Why the working class?/How to do educationals; 3. Marxists and the Labour Party; 4. The revolutionary party; 5. Marxism and anarchism.
Marxism and Imperialism study course (7 sessions)
Stalinism study course (10 sessions: partial notes)
British working-class history from 1832 to today (8 sessions)
Marx's Grundrisse - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2006-7
Working class and trade unions: Marx and today - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2005-6
Notes and discussion points on Beverly Silver's "Forces of Labor" - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2005
The working class in globalised capitalism - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2003
Marx on capitalist crises - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2000