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Workers’ Liberty is a socialist organisation. Our members include working-class militants from the big trade union struggles of the 60s and 70s; socialist feminists whose solidarity brought liberation politics to the Miners Strike 1984-5; students from the 2008-9 university occupation movement; the agitators that sparked the Vestas wind turbine factory occupation in 2009 and many more worker and student activists.
Workers Liberty roots its politics in class struggle. The organised working-class has been the only force in history that has seriously challenged capitalism. More than that, class politics are the only way to make sense of the world.
The past 150 years have seen enormous working-class movements, which have won huge concessions from capitalism and occasionally made social revolutions. There have been many times when the working-class has been tantalisingly close to making socialism - working-class self-rule based on common ownership and mass participatory democracy.
The most far-reaching movement was in Russia in 1917. The ideas and experiences of that movement are an incredibly rich legacy for the emerging movement today. We stand in the tradition of those, like Leon Trotksy, who fought for democratic socialism and internationalism until they were eventually murdered by Stalin’s agents.
After a long period of retreat we can expect a rebirth of the working class movement. Our active involvement in that movement may be vital in preventing us repeating the mistakes of the past. If you want to be a part of that project then get in touch, come to our meeting and get involved.