Pre-conference meetings are now underway for the annual conference of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, to be held in London on 19-20 May.

At conference we review our last year's activity, debate our main lines of policy for the coming year, and elect a new committee.

This year the outgoing committee has tabled proposals:

• for a new drive on political self-education in AWL;

• on “inside organising” (encouraging AWL members to get jobs in the industries and workplaces where they can best spread our ideas in the working class from the “inside”);

• on activity in the new “third wave” of feminism;

• on policy on Iraq;

• and on how we combine work oriented to the Labour Party (like the John McDonnell campaign) with AWL profile and independent socialist election candidates.

All AWL members have the right to put forward amendments or alternatives.

To ensure that the debate is well-informed, we hold a series of pre-conference discussions around the country. Meetings were held in London on 12 April and Sheffield on 15 April; others are planned in Glasgow on 21 April, in Norwich on 23 April, and in Leicester on 26 April.

All the documents, and reports of the discussions, are available to AWL members (www.workersliberty.org/taxonomy/term/591). If you're not an AWL member, but would like to attend the conference, or pre-conference discussions, as an observer, please contact the AWL office at awl@workersliberty.org.