Study courses

Two basic texts for new readers on what we mean by workers' rule and by socialism: America under the workers' rule and What a Socialist America will look like, by James P Cannon

New basic education programme (2011) based on the AWL pamphlet "We Stand For Workers' Liberty" (12 sessions)

AWL's short "first six months" reading list for activists

We Stand For Workers' Liberty (AWL pamphlet)

Short course on Marxist essentials (6 sessions).

Marxism and Trade Unions (6 sessions)

Socialism and Democracy: a debate with Michael Foot (AWL pamphlet)

Women's Oppression, Feminism and the Left (collection of readings)


Old AWL basic political education course (34 sessions).

Six Marxist texts study course (6 sessions)

AWL training sessions: contact work, public speaking, how to do educationals, arguing, debates, mentoring, paper sales


Study course on Marx's Capital (10 sessions)

Karl Marx's Capital, volume 1, abridged by Otto Ruhle

Capital tutors' school, for people leading sessions in the course on Capital

Wage-labour and profit: PowerPoint presentation

Notes on Marx's Wages, Price, and Profit

AWL day school 2007: Marx's Capital

Note on the word "valorize" in Fernbach's translation of Capital

Further notes and resources on all three volumes of Capital, including notes on David Harvey's lectures on volume 1


Communist Manifesto: study notes


Study guide to The Fate of the Russian Revolution

History, traditions, and ideas of the AWL: London AWL study course, 2008-9. See also chronology and texts from an AWL week school on AWL history, 2009.

"Workers' government": what it means

Trotsky: outline for discussion session (by Paul Hampton, from AWL winter school November 2009)

Capitalist crisis and workers' plan: London AWL study course, 2008-9

Socialists and Europe: N E London AWL study course, 2012


AWL day schools 2008: globalisation, imperialism, political Islam, Israel-Palestine

AWL day school 2007: Labour Party

AWL day school 2007: "Twelve debates"

AWL day school 2006: Ireland

AWL day school 2006: Israel-Palestine

AWL day school 2006: revolutionary party

AWL day school 2005: globalisation and imperialism

AWL day school 2005: Marxists and the trade unions


What Is To Be Done?, by Lenin: study guide. See also:

State and Revolution, by Lenin: tutor notes for a study course

Historical materialism: what is it? Short explanations by Marx and Engels

Revolution Betrayed: discussion points

Wage Labour and Capital: discussion points

The War and the International (Trotsky): discussion points

The New Course (Trotsky): discussion points

Lessons of October (Trotsky): discussion points

What Now?, from The Third International After Lenin (Trotsky): discussion points

Anti-Dühring (Engels): discussion points

Trotsky on the united front against fascism in Germany: discussion points

Rosa Luxemburg's "The Mass Strike": discussion points

Marx's "18th Brumaire": background notes

Theses on Feuerbach: background notes

The Poverty of Philosophy: notes for study sessions

Engels' "Ludwig Feuerbach": notes and talking points

Notes on James P Cannon's three "party" books


Lenin (4 sessions)

Marxism, anarchism, and syndicalism (from AWL week schools December/January 2007/8)

Workers' Liberty and the politics of anarchism (articles and debates)

Gramsci study course (six sessions)

Notes on the "Selections from the Prison Notebooks" (Gramsci)

Gramsci's Prison Notebooks - notes from Brisbane study course initiated by Workers' Liberty, 2008


AWL week school 2007. Sessions: 1. Skills; 2. Why the working class?/ How to do educationals; 3. Marxism and Economism; 4. Marxism, Anarchism, and Zapatism; 5. The National Question and Israel-Palestine in Particular; 6. Debating and arguing

AWL week school 2010: Sessions: 1. Practical skills; 2. Why the working class?/How to do educationals; 3. Marxists and the Labour Party; 4. The revolutionary party; 5. Marxism and anarchism.


Marxism and Imperialism study course (7 sessions)

Stalinism study course (10 sessions: partial notes)

British working-class history from 1832 to today (8 sessions)


Marx's Grundrisse - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2006-7

Working class and trade unions: Marx and today - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2005-6

Trade unions, socialism, and working-class sectionalism (excerpts from Marx, Engels, Connolly, and Gramsci)

Notes and discussion points on Beverly Silver's "Forces of Labor" - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2005

The working class in globalised capitalism - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2003

Marx on capitalist crises - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2000

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