AWL conference 2008

AWL conference decisions 2008

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Click here for the documents referred to.
AWL members: click here for detailed minutes and listings of National Committee, Disputes Committee, and Standing Orders Committee 2009 elected.
World economy [document 1] - passed
Workers' representation after Bournemouth [document 2] - passed
Workers' representation and the LRC - passed
Review of the year [document 3] - passed
Addition on young workers [amendment 3.1] - passed
Addition on anti-fascist activity [amendment 3.2] - passed
Feminist document [document 4] - passed
Iran/ Iraq - document 5 passed, document 6 defeated, amendment 6.1 defeated.
Climate change [document 7] - passed
Nuclear power amendment [amendment 7.1] - defeated

AWL conference 2008

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Date: 
10 May, 2008 - 13:00 - 11 May, 2008 - 18:00
Location: 

Highgate Newtown Community Centre, 25 Bertram St, London N19

Party and class after the death of Labour: AWL Conference 2008

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Author: 
Duncan Morrison

Over the weekend of 10– 11 May the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty held its annual conference. The event was lively and vibrant, with a lot of newer and younger comrades contributing to the debates and discussions. We used the time to assess our previous year’s work and plan our future work.

Procedure for AWL NC elections

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Nominations to be in - by posting to awl-debate@lists.workersliberty.org - by midnight Tuesday 6 May/ Wednesday 7 May. Each nominated candidate then to be required to write about 100 words describing their activity and record in the organisation, and any particular political slant which they hope to represent on the NC.

Those self-descriptions will be made available at the conference. The conference will include a hustings session in which AWL members can speak in favour or against particular candidates, or in favour of or against a particular balance on the committee.

Discussion Bulletin 279

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Amendments to documents in Discussion Bulletin 278, and further discussion contributions.

* Motion on organising young workers (Dan R)
* Amendment to "counter-motion" on Iran and Iraq (David B)
* Amendment to addition on anti-fascist activity (EC)
* Workers' Representation and LRC (Chris F)

Discussion:
- A transitional programme for iraq (Dan R)
- A note on Dan's contribution (Martin T)

Discussion Bulletin 278: documents for AWL conference 2008

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This bulletin includes the documents already circulated in DB 277, plus the motion on the feminist movement and amendments circulated to date.

*The world economy
- includes proposed additions from Martin T
* Iran and Iraq: AWL NC submission
- incorporates amendments from Sacha
* Iran and Iraq: counter-motion from Daniel R, David B, David K
* Climate change and socialist politics
- incorporates amendments from Tom U; Dave B; Max M; and Paul H
* Amendment on nuclear power (§33) from Martin T
* After Bournemouth
* Review of the Year
- Addition on anti-fascist activity from Tom U
- Addition to Tom's addition from AWL EC
* The feminist movement and us (from Sofie, Cathy N, and a discussion at AWL EC)
Discussion documents:
- Four Thoughts On Iraq (Daniel R)
- Nuclear power: fight the class and democratic issues around its development, not against its development (Martin T)
- On the Middle East, imperialism, and the Third Camp (David B)
- Iraq: don't let the tail of sloganising wag the Marxist dog (Martin T)

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