The Workers' Government: from the manifesto of the International-Communist League, 1977
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From the "manifesto" produced by the International-Communist League (forerunner of the AWL) in 1977.
Party and class
Transitional demands today
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In the aftermath of the First World War, and the betrayal of those sections of the socialist movement who supported that war, revolutionaries formulated the idea of a different kind of policies for workers’ struggles.
Marxists and "transitional demands"
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William Morris and the trade unions
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Morris was no dilettante on matters of organisation. Once he had decided to become a socialist he joined the Democratic Federation and became a leading activist and public spokesperson. This entailed speaking at open-air meetings, selling papers and other literature and giving educational lectures on a regular basis. Far from being a Sunday socialist, he became a dedicated semi-professional revolutionary.
Minimax and transitional demands
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Before the First World War most socialist groups and many individuals from around the world were grouped together in an organisation called the Second International (set up in 1889).
Iraq: a discussion with the WCPK about Kurdistan - Australian AWL 2008 conference report
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Jalal: main issues in Iraq. 1 negotiations between US government and Iraq government, mostly in secret. US want to make length of occupation open. They will end when they want.
"The Trots"
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“The Trots”
Spending our lives in outcasts' work,
We are "The Trots” — and we still lurk
For all that History could wreak:
The key to higher times we seek,
ENS, "Student Economism", and Communist Students
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It sounds like some sort of elaborate practical joke, revolutionary politics as re-imagined by the Bash Street Kids.
The Cynical Idealism of the Weekly Worker
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Over the last few months every edition of the Weekly Worker has carried at least one article about Workers Liberty.
When the workers rise
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“For the first time in the history of the labour movement the struggle is being so conducted that its three sides, the theoretical, the political, and the practical-economic (opposition to the capitalists), form one harmonious and well-planned entity”. Frederick Engels, 1874