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AWL discussion meetings

Workers' Liberty organises discussion meetings in many locations on subjects of interest to socialists and activists. Read about them here.


London Socialist Feminist Discussion Group: Who was Rosa Luxemburg?

Rosa Luxemburg
12 Sep 2008 - 7:30pm
12 Sep 2008 - 9:30pm

Location: 

Lucas Arms, 245a Gray's Inn Road, London


Description: 

A look at the life and politics of Rosa Luxemburg, the Polish-born revolutionary who died at the hands of right-wing forces after a failed uprising in 1919.

Suggested reading

The national question

The Russian Revolution (especially first and last chapters)

Women’s Suffrage and the Class Stuggle

Reform or Revolution (especially chapter on “Capitalism and the State”)

What does the Spartacus League want

Download the full autumn-winter 2008-9 programme of meetings for the Discussion Group, here:


Imperialism, anti-imperialism and Marxist strategy: a debate between the AWL and Workers Power

War and Terror
22 May 2008 - 7:30pm
22 May 2008 - 9:30pm

Location: 

Lucas Arms, 245a Grays Inn Road, Kings Cross


Description: 

What is the nature of imperialism today? What does a commitment to anti-imperialism imply? What should socialists' attitude to the forces fighting occupation in Iraq, Afghanistan and Palestine be?

Plenty of time for questions and discussion. All welcome.


Leaflet for London AWL forums 28 February and 20 March

AWL discussion meetings

28 February: Where is Pakistan going?
20 March: Simone de Beauvoir.
Download pdf ("attachment" below).


London AWL forum: Simone de Beauvoir

AWL discussion meetings
20 Mar 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker St, off Farringdon Road, London WC1


Description: 

London AWL forum: Where is Pakistan going?

AWL discussion meetings
28 Feb 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker St, off Farringdon Road, London WC1


Description: 

Speaker: Faryal Velmi


London AWL Thursday discussion

AWL discussion meetings
13 Mar 2008 - 6:00pm
13 Mar 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

THURSDAY 13 MARCH. C1. Militant or sympathiser?

What does being a revolutionary involve, as a choice about your aims in life? Why is it worthwhile? Why do revolutionaries "drop out"? Why should they remain committed?

How revolutionaries are formed, by Leon Trotsky


Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussion

AWL discussion meetings
6 Mar 2008 - 6:00pm
6 Mar 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

THURSDAY 6 MARCH. B5. Independent working-class political representation, transforming the labour movement, and the Labour Party

Reading from AWL dayschool on Marxists and the Labour Party

Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussion

AWL discussion meetings
21 Feb 2008 - 6:00pm
21 Feb 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

THURSDAY 21 FEBRUARY. B4. Why trade-union work is central for us.

Why does the working class organise in trade unions? Why is trade-union work central for revolutionaries, even when the trade unions are conservative? What do we do in the trade unions?

Three excerpts from Marx on trade unions

Reading from AWL dayschool on trade unions and socialism


Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussion

AWL discussion meetings
14 Feb 2008 - 6:00pm
14 Feb 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

THURSDAY 14 FEBRUARY. B3. Why must we build a revolutionary party?

What is special about the revolutionary party, as compared to other political parties?

Why must we build a revolutionary party? from We Stand For Workers' Liberty


Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussion

AWL discussion meetings
7 Feb 2008 - 6:00pm
7 Feb 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

THURSDAY 7 FEBRUARY. B2. Stalinism is not a form of socialism, but the opposite of socialism.

Working-class socialism versus "state socialism".

The Lies Against Socialism Answered, from We Stand For Workers' Liberty

"What Marx and Lenin meant by socialism" by Karl Kautsky.


Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussion

AWL discussion meetings
31 Jan 2008 - 6:00pm
31 Jan 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

THURSDAY 31 JANUARY. B1. Capitalism is only one stage in history, shaped by class struggle.

Where does capitalism come from? What other social and economic forms have there been in history? Why is capitalism only a transitory stage of development?

Communist Manifesto sections I and III.

Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussions, 17 January to 13 March 2008

AWL discussion meetings
17 Jan 2008 - 6:00pm
17 Jan 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1


Description: 

Second series in a basic introduction to the AWL's ideas. Every Thursday evening (except when there is a London AWL forum, usually the third Thursday of the month), from 18:00 downstairs at the Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1.

THURSDAY 17 JANUARY. A7. Why capitalism produces crises and unemployment.

"A gallop of industry, commercial credit and speculation finally, after breakneck leaps, ends where it began - in the ditch of a crisis... The overwork of some becomes the condition for the idleness of others."

Socialism Utopian and Scientific section III.

Details of the series.


London AWL Thursday discussions, 17 January to 13 March 2008

AWL discussion meetings

Second series in a basic introduction to the AWL's ideas. Every Thursday evening (except when there is a London AWL forum, usually the third Thursday of the month), from 18:00 downstairs at the Camera Cafe, 44 Museum St, London WC1.


Can Marxist theory explain women’s oppression? Engels and after

Women
11 Jan 2008 - 7:30pm
11 Jan 2008 - 9:30pm

Location: 

Lucas Arms, 245A Gray’s Inn Road (near Kings Cross), London


Description: 

Discussion on Engels' analysis of the origins of women’s oppression (Origins of the Family, Private Property and the State). Brief overview here. More: email us.


Class struggles in France: Workers' Liberty London forum

Issues and campaigns
24 Jan 2008 - 7:30pm

Location: 

The Union Tavern, 52 Lloyd Baker Street (corner with Farringdon Road), London (Kings X or Farringdon Tube)


Description: 

Last year, French workers and youth rose up and defeated the CPE, a major attack on young workers' rights. The last few months have seen major struggles against the country's new president, Nicolas Sarkozy, including by rail workers and students. Meanwhile, the far left is strong and growing, and in the last presidential election, two million voted for revolutionary socialist candidates.

Come and hear a report back from the delegation of young AWL members who visited France last month, and discuss how we can support and what we can learn from the French workers' movement and left.


London socialist feminist discussion group meeting: Islamic feminism?

Women

Discussion on whether "Islamic feminism" is possible?

Friday 24th August 7:30-9:15 pm
Marchmont Community Centre
62 Marchmont Street
London WC1

Some initial reading, describing Islamic Feminism "in their own words" can be found at the websites cited below. Further reading available on the day.


Did Bob Dylan sell out?

AWL discussion meetings

A talk by Mike Short at the AWL London Forum


AWL London forum: Workers vs the ANC - the class struggle in South Africa

AWL discussion meetings

7.30pm, Thursday 26 July
The Lucas Arms, Grays Inn Road (five minutes from Kings Cross tube and rail)
For a downloadable leaflet for this meeting see here.


London Socialist Feminist Discussion Group July meeting: "Fighting for Equal Pay"

Women

The recently established London Socialist Feminist reading group meets monthly and continues its programme on Friday 27 July with a discussion on equal pay.

In 1968, a group of female sewing machinists went on strike against a sex-biased grading structure. The 1970 Equal Pay Act followed shortly after. But women are still paid significantly less than men. Why is that? What can we do about it?


Discussing German socialist women

AWL discussion meetings

May saw the start of a very-welcome socialist feminist discussion group in London. Organised by Workers' Liberty, it is meeting every month. The first discussion was about the German socialist women's movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. As this is a pet subject of mine, I was happy to be asked to introduce the discussion.


AWL London meeting: What now for Marxists and the Labour Party?

AWL discussion meetings
17 May 2007 - 7:30pm
description:

Pre-conference debate for AWL conference 2007. Primarily a meeting for AWL members and sympathisers, but other friends of the AWL also welcome.

Location:
Calthorpe Arms, 252 Grays Inn Road, London WC1

AWL South West London forum: racism and immigration controls

Immigration & Asylum
3 May 2007 - 7:30pm
Location:
Ruskin House, 23 Coombe Road, Croydon

AWL London forum: workers, women and youth vs Mugabe

AWL discussion meetings
19 Apr 2007 - 7:30pm
description:

As Robert Mugabe's regime spirals to collapse, come and hear about how activists in Britain can make solidarity with the workers, women and young people of Zimbabwe.

Speakers: Alois Mbawara (Free-Zim Youth), Lois Davis (Women of Zimbabwe Arise Solidarity Group), David Broder (Workers' Liberty)

Location:
The Ship, corner of Borough Rd, Borough High St, and Newington Causeway, London (nearest Tubes: Borough or Elephant)

The SWP and the "IS tradition"

SWP

Notes (by Martin Thomas) from an AWL London forum on the SWP and the “IS tradition”, Thursday 9 June 2005.


AWL London forum: Capitalism, slave revolts and workers' solidarity

AWL discussion meetings

Speaker: Paul Hampton. 7.30pm, Thursday 15 March. The Plough, 27 Museum Street, WC1A. (Tottenham Court Road tube)


Somalia: Islamic courts or democratic unity?

AWL discussion meetings

by robin sivapalan

THE North London Workers’ Liberty forum “What next in Somalia after military intervention?” on 22 February was attended by about 70 people, including many Somalis living locally in Wembley.


AWL London forum — the academic boycott: what is left wing-anti-semitism?

AWL discussion meetings

Would an academic, cultural and economic boycott of Israel be a good way to make international solidarity with the Palestinians? Or would it demonise Israel, become a witchunt of Jews, undermine the Israeli left and undermine effective Palestinian solidarity in the labour movement?
Speaker: Sean Matgamna
7.30pm, Thursday 18 January
University of London Union, Malet Street
(Goodge Street, Russell Square or Euston tube)


AWL London forum: should the left boycott Israel?

AWL discussion meetings
18 Jan 2007 - 7:30pm
Location:
ULU, Malet St, London WC1

London Workers' Liberty forum. Spain, 1936-9: the revolution betrayed

AWL discussion meetings

7.30pm, Thursday 12 October
The Plough, Museum Street
Nearest tube: Tottenham Court Road

In 1936, in response to a fascist coup, the Spanish workers rose up and seized the factories and land, but could not consolidate their power. What happened? Why did the fascists win? What role did Marxism and anarchism play in the struggle? And what can the Spanish revolution teach socialists and the labour movement today?

A leaflet advertising the meeting is attached. For more information email office@workersliberty.org or ring 020 7207 3997


'Israel, Lebanon and the Palestinians — what should the left say about the current conflict?'

AWL discussion meetings

A debate between Eric Lee and Sean Matgamna (AWL)

Thursday 27 July, 7.30
at The Calthorpe Arms, 252 Gray's Inn Road, Kings Cross, London

All welcome


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