Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987

Labour's Youth: Student 'soft left' and the bureaucrats

In 1987 Labour's youth movements are set for re-organisation under proposals from Tom Sawyer, chair of the Labour Party NEC's Youth sub-committee. The proposals would abolish LPYS (Labour Party Young Socialists, a predecessor of 'Young Labour') representation on the NEC - instead it would be elected by a new structure, involving the Labour Party student organisation and trade union youth sections as well as the existing LPYS. Click here to download pdf .

(Survey, part one); Collection of articles from Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987

Collection of short articles from Workers' Liberty 7, June 1987. Workers hit back at Haughey: Cuts to Irish heathcare South Africa: Free Moses Mayekiso! Leading Black South African trade unionist facing death-penalty Stalinism: Gorbachev and Soviet workers Union mergers: Reshaping of the British trade union movement. Malta: Fall of the governing Labour party Australia: Bob Hawke's governing Labor Party seeks 3rd term Click here to download pdf .

ELECTION 87 - No, Socialism is not dying!

Labour gained ground slightly during the 1987 British general election campaign - the first time it had done so since 1959. But the Tories still won. The central lesson - Neil Kinnock said it, and he was right - is that you don't win an election in four weeks. Click here to download pdf .

Left Wing Urban Guerrillas in Ireland: the Irish National Liberation Army's Bloody Feud and the Saor Eire episode

Click here to download pdf. Now days are dragon-ridden, the nightmare Rides upon sleep; a drunken soldier Can leave the mother, murdered at her door To crawl in her own blood, and go scotfree; The night can sweat with terror as before We pieced our thoughts into philosophy, And planned to bring the world under a rule, Who are but weasels fighting in a hole. W B Yeats A mother, murdered at her door, to crawl in her own blood, during the struggles to set up the independent Irish state... A mother, Mary McGlinchey, shot dead in Dundalk on 31 January as she bathed her nine year old son, who vainly...

Forging the weapon Part 2

The Bolsheviks worked in the period of defeats for the Russian working class which followed 1906 to prepare for the revolution of 1917. Click here to download as pdf . Click here for 'Forging the Weapon' part 1.

Gorbachev Through Polish Eyes

A former leader of the left wing of Solidarnosc, now living in France, talks to Martin Thomas about Gorbachev's reforms in the light of the Polish experience, and about the basic problems of the Stalinist societies. Click here to download pdf .

Permanent revolution after Trotsky

From Workers' Liberty 7, 1987 In latter-day Trotskyism the theory of 'permanent revolution'-- anti-landlord or anti-colonial revolution being merged with socialist revolution under the leadership of the working class -- has become a dogma, used more to obscure the fact of many colonies winning freedom on a capitalist basis than to enlighten. Trotsky's theory of permanent revolution was one of the most important of his contributions to Marxism, but it has become one of the most vulgarised aspects of his legacy. In particular, the theory of permanent revolution and the Marxist attitude towards...

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