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The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty plans to stand against the Labour Party’s deputy leader, Harriet Harman, in the next general election. Harman is MP for the working-class constituency of Camberwell and Peckham in south east London.
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The Socialist Green Unity Coalition - with 39 candidates standing under our umbrella in the local government elections on 1 May - gives our full support to the teachers and lecturers striking on 24 April.
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In the Hackney Central ward in London the AWL is fielding two "Socialist Unity" candidates on 4 May. Janine Booth is chair of the local Aspland and Marcon Estate Tenants’ and Residents’ Association. Charlie MacDonald works in the Jobcentre the ward.
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Joint Policy declaration for the May 2006 local elections
IN THIS YEAR’S council elections a joint campaign is being mounted by several left parties and some independent socialists, to put forward an alternative to the right-wing policies of privatisation, contracting out and cuts offered by New Labour, the Tories, and the Liberal Democrats alike.
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The Socialist Green Unity Coalition - an alliance including the Alliance for Green Socialism, the Alliance for Workers' Liberty, the Socialist Alliance, and the Socialist Party — has decided on a joint campaign about pensions, with leafletting, street stalls, petitioning, and public meetings.
This is the text of the basic leaflet for the campaign.
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In the run-up to the 2005 election, AWL formed an alliance — the Socialist Green Unity Coalition — with the Socialist Party, the Alliance for Green Socialism, the remnants of the Socialist Alliance, and the Socialist Unity Network.
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The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty met with representatives of the Socialist Party, the Alliance for Green Socialism, and the Socialist Alliance (Provisional) for a Socialist Green Unity Coalition committee meeting on 2 October.
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Pete Radcliff, an AWL member, stood in Nottingham East under the banner of Socialist Unity. He got 373 votes, or 1.2% of the poll, about a third of his score in 2001. He writes about the lessons of the campaign
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All comment on new possibilities after the election is mere wistfulness unless we also register just how bad the election was, and just how badly the left did.
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All the left and Respect candidates' results in the 5 May 2005 General Election can be found on the Socialist Unity Network website.
