Where we stand
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.
Solidarity is the paper of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. We fight for working-class solidarity, and for socialism - which means solidarity raised from a principle of resistance to the guiding principle of society.
Every major industry should be reorganised on the lines of social provision for need, democratically controlled by the workers and the community. The privileges of managers and officials should be abolished, and replaced by a workers' democracy, far more flexible, responsive and accountable than any government of today.
We aim to help transform the labour movement so that, instead of being tied to the New Labour leadership's pro-profiteer political machine, it can create a workers' government.
As policies now, and as measures which such a workers' government should push through, we fight for:
- Full trade union rights by law, including the right to picket effectively and to take solidarity action.
- Free best-quality health care and education for all, as a right;
- Reversing privatisation and rebuilding public services under public ownership and democratic workers' and community control;
- A decent minimum wage for all;
- Taxation of the rich, and expropriation of the big banks and financial institutions which dominate economic life through the "casino economy" of high finance, to acquire the resources to establish jobs and welfare for all.
- A shorter working week without loss of pay;
- Reorganise Britain as a democratic federal republic.
We are for workers' and socialist unity across Europe; for a democratic workers' Europe, against the Europe of the multinationals and the unelected European Central Bank; for unilateral nuclear disarmament; for an end to participation in IMF and World Bank schemes to extract debt repayment and enforce austerity plans on poor countries, and unconditional aid to workers and the poor in those countries; for global solidarity against globalised capital; for consistent democracy, in Britain and internationally.
Socialism can never be built in one country alone. The workers in every country have more in common with workers in other countries than with their own rulers. We support national liberation struggles and workers' struggles worldwide.
We stand for:
- Full equality for women, and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. For a mass working-class-based women's movement;
- Against racism, and against deportations and all immigration controls;
- Equality for lesbians and gays;
- A united and free Ireland, with autonomy for the Protestant-majority area in the north-east.
- Left unity in action, and clarity and openness in debate and discussion.
If you agree with us consider joining the Alliance for Workers' Liberty or taking some copies of Solidarity to sell. If you disagree, get in touch and debate the issues with us!