AWL conference 2006

Taking stock of the new anti-capitalism

Document passed at AWL conference 29-30 April 2006. §1. The anti-capitalist or global justice movement has been an important milieu for the AWL to intervene in for many years. As participants, we continuously evaluate the nature of the movement, its tendencies, its composition, the role of the revolutionary left within it - and try to shape its direction. §2. Our conference in 2000 noted the fact that large numbers of youth were becoming politicised by demonstrations, meetings, direct action and other protests. We registered the opportunities to discuss ideas such as the nature of capitalism...

AWL political education

Report on AWL political education submitted by AWL National Commmittee to AWL conference 29-30 April 2006. Referred by conference, without debate, to incoming National Committee. 1. What the working class needs, in order to emancipate itself, is organisation and clarity of ideas. The job of a revolutionary working-class grouping like ours is to promote that organisation and clarity of ideas. In our three-word summary of what we do - "agitate, educate, organise" - education is pivotal. Agitation, if it is not to be demagogy, must be spun from, and consistent with, a well-understood programme...

Student report

Student report from AWL National Committee to AWL conference 29-30 April 2006. Referred by conference, without debate, to incoming National Committee. It remains the case that, as recent AWL conference have noted, universities and colleges are by far the largest concentrations of young people in Britain. Since youth recruitment is vital for revolutionaries, work in colleges and in the student movement is therefore a priority. Since the early 1980s the AWL and its predecessor organisations have born this out in practice by exercising significant influence in and recruiting significant numbers...

Multiculturalism

Amendment to AWL conference 29-30 April 2006, remitted by conference to the incoming National Committee. Furthermore, we should expose the politics of multiculturalism as essentialist, capitalist-complicit and, ultimately, divisive in a genuine labour movement response against racism, and put forward our political alternative.

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...

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