We Stand For Workers' Liberty

Liberation now? Or Socialism now? AWL Sheffield Open Branch Meeting

Date: 
8 August, 2011 - 21:30 - 23:00
Location: 

University Arms pub, Brookhill Roundabout, Sheffield

Description: 

AWL Sheffield Open branch meeting, 8/8/11 - Join us for a discussion of our work in Sheffield and political discussion. An AWL member will lead off on questions of socialism and liberation, liberation now? Or wait for socialism to liberate all?. Based on 'Festival of the Oppressed' from 'We stand for Workers' Liberty' (reading can be found at http://www.workersliberty.org/story/2006/03/05/festival-oppressed).

Who was Karl Marx?

Karl Marx (1818-83) was born into a middle-class family in Germany. At university he was one of many radically-minded philosophers. In his mid-20s, partly under the influence of workers' socialist groups he met during a stay in Paris, he decided to throw in his lot with the working class then emerging as a social force in Europe.

What AWL members do

"The emancipation of the proletariat is not a labour of small account and of little people: only they who can keep their heart strong and their will as sharp as a sword when the general disillusionment is at its worst can be regarded as fighters for the working class or called revolutionaries"

Antonio Gramsci.

Who was Leon Trotsky?

Becoming a revolutionary in his teens, Leon Trotsky (1879-1940) led
the Soviet (workers' council) in St Petersburg during Russia's 1905
revolution. From 1903 through to 1917 he was active in the Russian
socialist movement (mostly from exile), but outside the two main
factions, Bolsheviks and Mensheviks.