AWL archives at LSE library
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The archives of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and our forerunners, deposited at the library of the London School of Economics, are now catalogued and available to researchers.
AWL history
Sean Matgamna reflects on 50 years in the socialist movement. Workers' Liberty 3/26
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- How and why the AWL tendency started in 1966
- Finding my way to Trotskyism, part 1: the "manacles" of nation and class
- Part 2: from "communism" to "orthodox Trotskyism"
- How the dockers won solidarity, and how they lost it
- The AWL: from "orthodox Trotskyism" to the "Third Camp"
- Debating theories of the USSR
- The dilemmas of "communism"
- Sean Matgamna: would my 18 year old self say to me now: "you are on ‘the far right of the far left’"?
- Working Class Life in Ennis in the Mid-Twentieth Century: Sean Matgamna Examines His Own "Roots and Branches"
- What is to be done?
AWL dayschool on the history of the AWL
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Date:
16 December, 2006 - 12:00 - 17:00
Location:
Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds
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Location:
Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds
Swarthmore Centre, Woodhouse Square, Leeds
AWL day school on the history of the AWL
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Date:
3 December, 2006 - 13:15 - 17:15
Are Marxists pro-liberty?
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Normally I wouldn’t dream of grassing up the publishers of this newspaper to the Labour Party bureaucracy. But after nearly 20 years, even the dimmest witchhunter has probably by now twigged the subterfuge that saw evil clandestine Trot entrists the Socialist Organiser Alliance rebrand themselves as the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty.
9/11 and after: what we said in 2001
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Stalinism: we haven’t voted for a label
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Dave Osler says (Solidarity 214) that the AWL has “adhered” to Shachtman’s position, i.e. that the Stalinist states were/are a form of class exploitation distinct from capitalism (“bureaucratic collectivism”). That’s not quite accurate.
Self-regulation of the press?
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In October 1992 the Independent on Sunday (IoS) published a smear article by its then political editor Stephen Castle suggesting without evidence that sympathisers of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty and other leftists had tried to rig ballots (in Sheffield) for the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party.
The Afghan Tragedy and the Socialist Party (Militant)
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The Afghan Tragedy: USSR troops out - the socialist case. Published by Socialist Organiser as 'Socialist Forum' magazine no.3, July 1985.
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- PART 1: THE STALINIST APRIL 1978 COUP AND THE RUSSIAN DECEMBER 1979 INVASION
- PART 2: GRANT, TAAFFE AND WOODS HAIL THE STALINIST COUP AND BACK THE INVADERS
- PART 3: AND STALINIST REVOLUTIONS
- PART 4: MILITANT/SOCIALIST PARTY AND STALINIST EXPANSION
Afghan tragedy - the Militant/ Socialist Party and Afghanistan, part 4
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Part 4: The next stage for the working class: submission to totalitarian suppression.