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The 2009 Alliance for Workers’ Liberty conference (30-31 May) took place as we see the further development of the political crisis following on from the economic crisis of capitalism. Our debates mapped out the tasks we face in the changed political situation and how we need to improve our ability to intervene.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Minute-takers' notes. (For AWL members only. Note: these notes have not been checked by the speakers, so cannot be taken as an authoritative indication of what the speakers said).
