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AWL 2007 Conference: Report on Debates, Disputes, and Documents
By martin
Created 29 May 2007 - 6:40pm

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty held our annual conference on 19-20 May 2007. We adopted the following documents (click on "read more"):

  • Assessment and orientation: "everything depends on our ability to act as Marxist educators" (document 1.0) [1]

  • "Public sector alliance" (document 1.1)
  • "United working-class campaigns against fascism" (document 1.2) [2]
  • "Educating AWL members so we become educators" (document 2.0) [3]
  • "Inside Organising" (document 6.0) [4]
  • "Solidarity with the Iraqi workers against both the US/UK forces and the sectarian militias" (document 4.0) [5]
  • "Organise women interested in socialist-feminist ideas and the AWL" (document 3.0) [6]
    The conference also received a long background document [7] on socialist-feminism, not voted on

  • "Maintain and strengthen the AWL's open revolutionary socialist political profile": document on the Labour Party (document 5.0) [8]

The conference voted down the following submissions:

  • "Organising from outside"/ "Target areas": defeated amendments on Inside Organising (documents 6.1/6.2)

  • Full-time union officials: defeated amendment on Inside Organising (document 6.3) [9]
  • "Troops out": defeated amendment on Iraq (document 4.1) [10]
  • "For a change in orientation": defeated motion on the Labour Party (document 5.1/5.2) [11]

One submission was referred to the incoming AWL National Committee:

"Changing the name of the paper" (document 1.3) [12]

Click here [13] for a summary of the conference decisions (including procedural decisions); the report to the conference from the AWL Environment Commission (not voted on); and the message to the conference from Solidarity - USA.

More information for AWL members here [14].



Source URL: http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8524

Links:
[1] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8522
[2] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8521
[3] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8518
[4] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8517
[5] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8513
[6] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8511
[7] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8199
[8] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8510
[9] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8516
[10] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8512
[11] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8509
[12] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8519
[13] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8523
[14] http://www.workersliberty.org/node/8183