Workers' Liberty

The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty fights for the following programme among socialists and activists in the trade unions, the Labour Party and the Socialist Alliances.

“It’s been quite fun to watch Government ministers and the Tories play the race card. It legitimises us.”

British National Party leader Nick Griffin

“The emancipation of the working class is the emancipation of all human beings without distinction of race or sex.”

Karl Marx

Anti-asylum bigotry is now the main cutting edge of British racism.

1. Britain is a "soft touch" for asylum seekers

By Alan McArthur

Police lawyers have been strong-arming cinemas to stop them showing Injustice, a powerful new documentary on deaths in police custody which exposes corruption and cover-up at every level of the criminal justice system.

Mumia Abu-Jamal is a former Black Panther and an award-winning journalist. Mumia has been on death row since 1982, after he was wrongfully sentenced for the shooting of a police officer.

By Cathy Nugent

During 2000, hysterical media debate about asylum seekers targetted gypsies, specifically Roma people from eastern Europe.

By Sacha Ismail

Anyone who has reported a robbery to the police knows how ridiculous the claim that they exist to stop crime is.

By Jim Denham

Even in the midst of bitter industrial struggles, it is not uncommon to hear white trade unionists expressing racist views.

In order to beat the fascists we need to understand what they are — what fascism has been, and what it is now. Daniel Murphy outlines the arguments.

Leon Trotsky, writing before and after Hitler came to power, tried to warn the labour movement about the policies of the, then very strong, German Communist Party, policies which proved to be disastrous.

The history of black and Asian people in Britain is a history of racism and of resistance to racism.

By Dan Katz

Anti-semitism, or anti-Jewish prejudice is an ancient form of racism.

On 26 May in Oldham there was bitter fighting between Asian youth and the police.

Modern anti-black racism has relatively recent roots, in the history of slavery and colonialism.

By Dion D’Silva

“I’ll be honest with you, I was terrified. I owe my life to that preacher and so do all the other white people who were there.”

Martin Thomas looks at George Breitman’s book, The Last Year of Malcolm X: The Evolution of a Revolutionary (Pathfinder, £7.95)

The Nation of Islam (NoI) was founded in 1930 as a peculiar fusion of Islam and a conservative variant of black nationalism.

The Black Panthers are the most representative example of revolutionary black nationalism. Dan Katz looks at two books, written by participants. Bobby Seale's Seize The Time (Vintage, 1970) and Elaine Brown's A Taste of Power (Pantheon, 1992)

By Violet Martin

Our basic policy is free speech. The capitalist class has a partial interest in free speech — within limits. The working class has a much more profound interest in free speech.

The best way to “reason” with the thug who comes after you with a knife or a broken bottle in his hand is — as Leon Trotsky once put it — to “acquaint his head with the pavement".

On 13 August 1977 the National Front tried to march through Lewisham in south east London, where many black people live.

By Mark Osborn

Everybody knows that the Anti-Nazi League is run by the Socialist Workers’ Party, and entirely controlled by it.

By Chris Reynolds

In the Middle Ages, Ethiopia was not underdeveloped.