WL Australia leaflets, statements, bulletins

This leaflet will be distributed by Workers' Liberty activists at the rallies and demonstrations being held across Australia on 30 November, in a day of action organised by the Australian Council of Trade Unions in protest against the Howard government's anti-union laws.

About WL Australia: where we stand, our constitution

Archive 1995-2005

Special interest pages:

Political economy of global capitalism

Gramsci study group in Brisbane

Marx's Grundrisse - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2006-7

Working class and trade unions: Marx and today - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2005-6

Notes and discussion points on Beverly Silver's "Forces of Labor" - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2005

The working class in globalised capitalism - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2003

Marx on capitalist crises - Brisbane Workers' Liberty study course, 2000

Perspectives for the Socialist Alliance.

Workers' Liberty is a Marxist group. We are for socialism, created by the collective action of the working class. Capitalism is a bankrupt system, destroying the world, denying the means to earn a living, causing starvation and misery to many. At the same time capital employs the labour of those it can make the greatest profit from, whether they be children, whether they be denied the right to organise by their governments, whatever part of the world they  might live in. But capital in exploiting labour, creates the working class. When working class people learn together that the capitalism is our enemy, and when we act together against the enemy, we can learn our potential to create a better world.

As Marxists we learn from our contributions to working class struggle, by putting forward and discussing our analysis of current politics.

The socialism Workers Liberty advocates has nothing in common with the discredited Stalinist regimes. We welcome their collapse, which clears the way for a rediscovery of democratic revolutionary socialism. We adhere to the principles of Trotsky's struggle against capitalism, Stalinism and reformism, but reject a great deal which seems to us false in the common run of neo-Trotskyism since the 1940s.

Our history and What we stand for



Our constitution

Contribution to the discussion in the Australian Socialist Alliance, April 2003
Workers' Liberty's top concerns are that we should not squander the current opportunities to overcome problems that have been dogging the left for decades. We repeat our initial welcoming of the DSP's proposals to work towards a more unified SA. We also welcome the statement by non-aligned members of the Alliance, asking the affiliates to make their proposals for the Alliance as a regroupment project, and the comments by Kiraz Janicke from Perth in DB 3/2. We hope those comrades will find that WL is addressing the main points that they have raised.