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)
- "Public sector alliance" (document 1.1)
- "United working-class campaigns against fascism" (document 1.2)
- "Educating AWL members so we become educators" (document 2.0)
- "Inside Organising" (document 6.0)
- "Solidarity with the Iraqi workers against both the US/UK forces and the sectarian militias" (document 4.0)
- "Organise women interested in socialist-feminist ideas and the AWL" (document 3.0)
The conference also received a long background document 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)
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)
- "Troops out": defeated amendment on Iraq (document 4.1)
- "For a change in orientation": defeated motion on the Labour Party (document 5.1/5.2)
One submission was referred to the incoming AWL National Committee:
"Changing the name of the paper" (document 1.3)
Click here 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.