Who we are
To contact AWL:
- Email awl@workersliberty.org
- Phone +442072073997
- Write to P O Box 823, London SE15 4NA
- Contact your local branch: we have branches in most major cities in Britain.
Or:
- read more about how to join AWL
- Check out our calendar of activities
- Join our e-list for news of meetings and activities (about one message a fortnight).
Join the fight for solidarity!
Submitted on 12 November, 2005 - 17:23
Why you should join the AWL
In Britain today, one child in three grows up in poverty, in a household with less than half the average income. In 1968, the figure was only one in 10.
Where we stand
Submitted on 5 June, 2005 - 14:21
Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class which owns the means of production. Society is shaped by the capitalists' relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the environment and much else.
Against the accumulated wealth and power of the capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity.
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty aims to build solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, workers' control and a democracy much fuller than the present, with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats' and managers' privileges.
We fight for the labour movement to break with "social partnership" and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses.
Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, supporting workers' struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping organise rank-and-file groups.
We stand for:
• Independent working-class representation in politics.
• A workers' government, based on and accountable to the labour movement.
• A workers' charter of trade union rights - to organise, to strike, to picket effectively, and to take solidarity action.
• Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education and jobs for all.
• A workers' movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Black and white workers' unity against racism.
• Open borders.
• Global solidarity against global capital - workers' everywhere have more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist rulers.
• Democracy at every level of society from the smallest workplace or community to global social organisation.
• Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big and small.
• Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate!
If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell - and join us!
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Introduction to the AWL
Submitted on 16 January, 2004 - 12:54
Notes of a speech introducing the AWL made by Sacha Ismail to a student group on 15/01/04.
What is the Alliance for Workers' Liberty?
Submitted on 5 March, 2006 - 12:38
The Alliance for Workers' Liberty are socialists. We organise our daily activity mainly around two big ideas:
1. workers' struggles;
2. consistent democracy.
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Our traditions: where the AWL comes from
Submitted on 11 November, 2005 - 22:13
Document for 1997 AWL conference.
L’Alliance for Workers’ Liberty : Qui sommes-nous ? Pourquoi vous devriez nous rejoindre ?
Submitted on 29 October, 2005 - 07:57
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.
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What we are, what we do and why we do it
Submitted on 3 May, 2005 - 22:34
As part of the discussion leading up to the conference of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty on 21-22 May, Sean Matgamna locates our activity and perspectives in a longer view of history
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Debates on the left
Submitted on 14 April, 2005 - 19:55
- 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 AWL and the labour movement
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'What we are and what we must become'
Submitted on 5 March, 2005 - 20:25
The founding document of our political tendency - and a critique of 1960s 'Militant - can be read here.
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The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty: what we are, why you should join us
Submitted on 28 January, 2005 - 16:27
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.
A socialist world is possible
Submitted on 8 October, 2004 - 21:17
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.
Unity
Submitted on 19 August, 2004 - 07:36
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
Where we stand
Submitted on 19 August, 2004 - 07:36
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.
We fight for human solidarity
Submitted on 17 March, 2003 - 17:59
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.
Qu'est-ce qu'est l'AWL?
Submitted on 6 May, 2002 - 12:59
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.
