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Study courses
Submitted on 19 August, 2004 - 07:36
AWL basic political education course (34 sessions).
Short basic study course (6 sessions).
Politics of Marxism 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
Communist Manifesto: study notes
Historical materialism: what is it? Short explanations by Marx and Engels
Revolution Betrayed: discussion points
Wage Labour and Capital: discussion points
"Workers' government": what it means: four texts
Lenin (4 sessions)
Marxism, anarchism, and syndicalism (from AWL week schools December/January 2007/8)
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
Marxism and Imperialism study course (7 sessions)
Stalinism study course (10 sessions: partial notes)
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
The AWL basic education programme. The AWL, Trotskyism and the Marxist tradition: sections E1 to E8
Submitted on 10 January, 2008 - 16:50
The AWL, Trotskyism and the Marxist tradition: sections E1 to E8
AWL basic education programme. The state and revolution: sections D1 to D8
Submitted on 10 January, 2008 - 16:40
The state and revolution: sections D1 to D8
AWL basic education programme. The revolutionary outlook: sections C1 to C6
Submitted on 10 January, 2008 - 16:36
The revolutionary outlook: sections C1 to C6
AWL basic education programme. How class struggle changes the world: A7 to B5
Submitted on 10 January, 2008 - 16:29
How class struggle changes the world: sections A7 to B5
AWL basic education programme. Capital, workers, and socialism: sections A1 to A6
Submitted on 10 January, 2008 - 16:24
Capital, workers, and socialism: sections A1 to A6
Wage-labour and profit: PowerPoint presentation
Submitted on 14 December, 2007 - 09:34
Here is a PowerPoint presentation on commodities, value, wage-labour, profit, and capital. It is designed as back-up for talking through the issues, rather than as a stand-alone. You may find it useful when reviewing your notes from a study group on these issues, or when leading a study group.
AWL basic education programme
Submitted on 2 October, 2007 - 00:25
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AWL week school September 2007
Submitted on 23 August, 2007 - 12:39
**** Please note Tuesday's session is cancelled. Why The Working Class (originally on Tuesday) replaces Thursday's session on Anarchism ****
This school covers the same broad areas as the AWL week school in July, but each area in a different way, using different texts and different activities - sometimes activities which were in the July school schedule but which we could not do then for lack of time. It will be held in London. To register to attend, contact the AWL office.
What does "historical materialism" mean? Short explanations by Marx and Engels
Submitted on 4 July, 2007 - 14:31
AWL week school 2007
Submitted on 22 June, 2007 - 23:38
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. D
AWL week school July 2007
Submitted on 22 June, 2007 - 23:24
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
Discussion points for educationals on Wage Labour and Capital
Submitted on 14 June, 2007 - 15:24
You can find the text here. Skip the section headed "By what is the price of a commodity determined?", but do make sure to read the Introduction.
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Discussion points for educationals on Wage Labour and Capital
Submitted on 14 June, 2007 - 15:24
You can find the text here. Skip the section headed "By what is the price of a commodity determined?", but do make sure to read the Introduction.
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Communist Manifesto study course
Submitted on 30 January, 2007 - 09:32
A guide to studying the Communist Manifesto (PDF). If you prefer to download it as a Word file, click here.
Communist Manifesto - study course
Submitted on 30 January, 2007 - 09:28
A guide to studying the Communist Manifesto ('Word' file). If you prefer to download it as a PDF, click here.
The IWW and its relevance for today
Submitted on 10 January, 2006 - 12:09
The IWW was a trade-union organisation, a revolutionary trade-union organisation, founded in 1905 in the USA, whose heyday was between 1905 and 1914.
We surveyed the IWW's distinctive organising approaches:
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Working class and trade unions II: today
Submitted on 2 January, 2006 - 21:54
1. Fastest-growing categories of employment: USA
Henwood gives a list for the USA. None of the 30 top categories is a factory operative/ machine minder category. That does not mean that those workers are disappearing. There are as many car workers in the USA today as in the 1970s. But the fastest growing categories are elsewhere.
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Working class and trade unions I: Marx
Submitted on 14 December, 2005 - 11:52
- Marx argues that class struggle and working-class combination (trade unions) is endemic in capitalism, at all stages. "The contest between the capitalist and wage-labourer dates back to the very origin of capital..." (Ch.15.5). Workers' "struggles for the standards of wages are incidents inseparable from the whole wages system" (WPP); the basic "activity of the trade unions... cannot be dispensed with so long as the present system of production lasts" (TUPPF).
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Brisbane Workers' Liberty study group, December/January 2005/6
Submitted on 2 December, 2005 - 12:33
Discussion group on Working class and trade unions: Marx and today.
Marx on trade unions
Submitted on 27 November, 2005 - 10:44
Three key excerpts.
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"AWL vs SWP" day school (Nov/Dec 2005): discussion points
Submitted on 11 November, 2005 - 21:54
Agenda:
Short plenary introduction
Small-group discussions one: Transitional programme vs fake ultra-leftism
Small-group discussions two: Marxism vs Apparatus Marxism
Small-group discussions three: Striving to be "the memory of the class" vs invention of tradition
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Notes and discussion points on Beverly Silver's "Forces of Labor"
Submitted on 23 August, 2005 - 01:32
The notes and discussion points are classified under three headings:
- Auto workers and textile workers (Silver's ch.2 and ch.3 to p.97)
- Overall trends (Silver's ch.4 and ch.1)
- The future (Silver's ch.3 from p.97 onwards, ch.5, and ch.1.
The notes were prepared for a Brisbane Workers' Liberty discussion series in August/ September 2005.
Capital study course
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