Workers' Liberty

What would my 18 year old self say to me if somehow he could meet me today?

THE REBEL HEART

From Rebel veins my life I draw,
In Rebel arms I lay;
From Rebel lips my lessons knew,
That led me day by day;
And rocked to rest on Rebel breast,
And nursed on Rebel view,

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty are socialists. We organise our daily activity mainly around two big ideas:

1. workers' struggles;

2. consistent democracy.

As a follow-up to the pull-out in the last issue of Solidarity, “Looking Backward”, we publish a summary of the political and ideological traditions on which Workers’ Liberty and Solidarity base ourselves.

L’Alliance for Workers’ Liberty :
Qui sommes-nous ? Pourquoi vous devriez nous rejoindre ?

Solidarity est publié par l’Alliance for Workers’Liberty. La première idée que soutient l’AWL est que les socialistes doivent être organisés. Nous croyons que les socialistes isolés, aussi justes soient leurs intentions ou leur politique, ne peuvent être aussi efficaces qu’un groupe socialiste politiquement organisé, éduqué et actif.

Sean Matgamna locates our activity and perspectives in a longer view of history

The AWL and the labour movement

• The case for a workers' government, from WL45, March 1998
• The Labour Party in perspective, from WL28, February 1996.
• The rank and file movement we need, from WL40, May 1997
• Class and class consciousness, from WL40, May 1997
  
  

The founding document of our political tendency - and a critique of 1960s 'Militant' - can be read here.

By Daniel Randall

Solidarity is published by the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty, AWL. The first thing the AWL stands for is the idea of socialists being organised. We believe that individual socialists, no matter how right their politics or good their intentions, can never be as effective as an organised, educated, activist socialist group.

By Colin Foster

Socialism means democratic control by the producers — the workers — over what is produced and distributed.

That’s how it will end poverty, class inequality, exploitation, boom-slump cycles and the trashing of the environment. That is how it will ensure good social provision for all, in place of the chaos and inhumanity of the free market.

Workers' Liberty International

Unite the left to meet the new challenges!
Discussion on how to regroup the left

Unite the left to meet the new challenges!, Solidarity 3/26

Solidarity is the opposite of capitalism - working-class people standing together to help each other, rather than each one elbowing others aside in a war of all against all for individual advantage. Without solidarity, the individual worker, or small group of workers, is powerless against the accumulated and concentrated power of the wealthy. With solidarity, we are strong against our enemies.

Liam Conway made the closing speech at conference.

"Comrades, the mainstream labour movement is dominated by people who have nothing in common with the aspirations of the working class - who care nothing for the idea of human solidarity.

Workers' Liberty est une organisation trotskyste britannique, liée à un groupe en Australie (Workers' Liberty), et qui tient des rapports de discussion avec plusieurs groupes dans d'autres pays. Nous éditons le quinzomadaire Solidarity et la revue théorique Workers' Liberty.