AWL conference 2009: AWL and the threat of a new fascist upsurge
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We note -
The continuing growth of the BNP, including the very significant possibility that they will win at least one MEP in the upcoming European elections.
AWL conference reports
AWL conference 2009: AWL, the unions, and Labour
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AWL conference 2009: the unions
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AWL conference 2009: “express more clearly”
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The AWL should resolve to express more clearly what we stand for and what our purpose is. We need to convince people more effectively of our politics and of the reasons that they should join us. We resolve to assess how we write, speak and present ourselves with a view to achieving this.
We should also assess how people who we wish to attract see us, and identify ways of overcoming unnecessary obstacles between our potential recruits and the AWL.
AWL conference 2009: relaunching AWL to shape up for the crisis
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Capitalism has had a tremendous crash, the most profound crisis of capitalism for three quarters of a century, whose full social and political reverberations we can’t know yet. Capitalism is massively discredited.
AWL conference 2009: the crisis
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1. The twenty or 25 years up to 2007 were a “golden age” for capitalism. It expanded fast (though economic growth rates were lower than in 1950-73, they were high compared to all other eras).