International dialogue and collaboration

International meeting of November 2003 and follow-up

Marxist Revival pamphlet: articles from international discussions

Click here to download pdf. - Why Marxist Revival? - Why internal democracy is a precondition for building an international organisation - The politics of globalisation and imperialism today - Modern imperialist domination and Islamic fundamentalism - International report adopted by AWL conference, October 2012 - Iran: Two leadership crises, one revolutionary solution

Lutte Ouvriere fete 2013

The fete organised by the French revolutionary socialist group Lutte Ouvriere every year at the Whit holiday weekend (18-20 May) in countryside in Presles, near Paris, was hard hit this year by rain. In the forty years that the fete has been run and AWL and its forerunners have taken up the invitation which LO extends to left groups across Europe to run stalls at it, I can remember only one year when the rain and the mud were so unremitting. It was still a valuable weekend for the AWL team who went. Comrades new to the fete saw what can be done by a well-organised revolutionary socialist group...

A discussion among Marxists

Workers’ Liberty has recently begun discussions with a Marxist group active in Turkey, Marksist Tutum [Marxist Attitude]. We made contact with Marksist Tutum thanks to the help of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency. Martin Thomas reviews their political literature. The Marksist Tutum website was started in 2002; the journal has been published since 2005. Since 2006 its supporters have been active in developing a wider workers’ association in Turkey called UID-DER (the Association of International Workers’ Solidarity). The “pre-history” of Marksist Tutum is longer. It goes back to the...

Notes on documents of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists' Tendency

Workers' Liberty has recently begun discussions with the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists' Tendency. The IRMT is a continuation of the Iranian Trotskyist group "Socialism and Revolution", with which our tendency had links in the 1980s. We lost contact with the IRMT after the exile group scattered and the IRMT comrades turned their energies to Iran, returning to Iran itself or to nearby countries; but have recently re-established links. Political Islam We in Workers' Liberty have learned a lot from the critique made by the IRMT and its predecessors of political Islam in general and the Iranian...

Marxist Revival: building international revolutionary links

Workers' Liberty has recently begun discussion and collaboration with a number of revolutionary socialist organisations in other countries. The link up, which is at an early stage, is using the name Marxist Revival. There is an MR blog, with links to and articles from the various organisations involved, at marxist.cloudaccess.net Below are links to notes on documents published by two of the organisations participating in Marxist Revival. Notes on documents of Marksist Tutum (Turkey) Notes on documents of the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists' Tendency

AWL at Lutte Ouvrière fete 2012

AWL ran a stall at the Lutte Ouvrière fete on 26-28 May 2012. Lutte Ouvrière, a French Trotskyist group, has run a fete at the Whit weekend every year since 1971 on open land near Paris, first at Mériel and for many years now at Presles. Each year about 20,000 people come for food stalls, music and dancing, children's games, scientific displays and talks, film showings, and political debate. LO offers a stall to any revolutionary socialist group from any country willing to run one. Fewer groups have taken up this offer in recent years, and probably AWL and its predecessors are the only...

Some notes on the Trotskyist left in France

It's best, I think, to start not with tactical and immediate questions, but with fundamental world-views. Marxism, is after all, not just a set of tactical prescriptions. Marxism is distinguished from other socialisms in being rooted in a reasoned overview of history. Both DM and the LO faction are rooted intellectually in the tradition of Lutte Ouvriere (Barta, Barcia). It's quite difficult to "get your head round" that tradition. Barta and a tiny group separated from the main Trotskyist group in France in 1939, not because of any particular political disagreement, but because they thought...

International greetings

International greetings to AWL conference 29-30 April 2006 Lalit, Mauritius Dear comrades of AWL, Lalit will be holding a Labour Day gathering on the 1st of May. Our theme for this Labour Day gathering is (literally from the kreol) "Building Alternative Economy Politics". The economic crisis is already being felt in Mauritius as thousands of jobs get destroyed in the sugar industry and in the textile sector as quotas, guaranteed prices, and protected markets are whittled away by the WTO. The Mauritian government persists in its defence of economic interests of the Mauritian sugar and textile...

The Grand Scheme

I see through your eyes And I see through your brain Like I see through the water That runs down my drain Bob Dylan, Masters of War In order to demystify the post-September 11 situation it is helpful to briefly touch on the two basic claims of the warmongers which were bolstered by the tragedy of the attacks. The assertion concerning the new ferocity and immediate danger which the enemy allegedly represents (1), as well as the supposedly dumbfounded response of the administration (2), were at the core of the propaganda campaign. While we cannot go further in dispelling the myths and exposing...

The left in Poland

Anna Rzymska, from the Revolutionary Left Current in Poland, reported on the situation of the labour movement and the left in Poland at the international meeting organised by the AWL in Paris on 18 June. Currently, we have a Social-Democrat government, until the next elections on 25 September. The Social-Democrats are ex-members of the Communist Party. The right will win a majority at the next parliamentary elections in September. Four years, the Social-Democrats had the support of 40% of the population but now two of the biggest Social-Democratic parties will only just scrape the five per...

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