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AWL has moved offices. New address!

30 Jan 2011

AWL's new address is 20E Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London SE1 3DG. The new office is better situated, in better physical condition, and better set up for our tasks than the old one. There are still things to do on setting up in the new place; please take this into account if we have a few glitches in the settling-in period. Phone: 020 7394 8923. Moving has cost us a lot of money, and there are further expenses to come. Especially if you value the new weekly format of Solidarity , please contribute to our fund appeal: see http://www.workersliberty.org/donate . Mail will be forwarded for a...

Make a donation or payment to Workers' Liberty

05 Nov 2009

To pay for a subscription to Solidarity, click here . Or to buy a book or a pamphlet go to the page for the book at www.workersliberty.org/books or for the pamphlet at www.workersliberty.org/pamphlets . To make one-off payments, see below. By credit or debit card (or PayPal account) through PayPal (please use the facility on the PayPal site to indicate what the payment is for); or Do an internet bank transfer to "AWL", account 20047674 at Unity Trust Bank, Birmingham, 60-83-01 (please email awl@workersliberty.org to notify us of the payment and what it is for); or Send a cheque payable to "AWL...

Ireland

05 Mar 2006

Northern Ireland is in chronic communal conflict. For there to be a democratic solution, a wider framework than Northern Ireland is needed. The only programme which accommodates the rights of both communities without infringing on the rights of either is a federal united Ireland with regional autonomy for the mainly Protestant north-east, linked in a voluntary confederation with Britain. That is a programme on which class-conscious Irish workers, Protestant and Catholic, can be united. And only a united working class can win full democracy and the socialist "levelling-up" which makes it viable...

Join the fight for solidarity!

12 Nov 2005

Why you should join the AWL In Britain today, one child in three grows up in poverty, in a household with less than half the average income. In 1968, the figure was only one in 10. Thousands are homeless on the streets, while 600,000 dwellings stand empty. Millions are jobless, while those with jobs have to work longer and longer hours. Health care, state education, and public services are ruined by cuts and privatisation, while the wealth of the rich snowballs. Workplace stress escalates, under new technologies which, rationally used, should ease it. Profit before people; "wealth-creation"...

AWL versus SWP

11 Nov 2005

Material for an AWL day school, November/ December 2005, and other stuff on the political differences between AWL and SWP. Download all the stuff for the dayschool as pdf (570 Kb) , or read individual items below. "AWL vs SWP" day school, November/ December 2005 Discussion points for the day school 1. Transitional programme vs fake ultra-leftism Socialism after Stalinism , by Sean Matgamna, from How Solidarity Can Change The World The SWP and its "March on Parliament" , by Sean Matgamna, from Socialist Organiser 591, 03/03/94 2. Marxism vs "Apparatus Marxism" The Degradations of Apparatus...

Unions in the pandemic

01 Jun 2020 |

Ollie Moore

Workplace activists in Workers' Liberty met via Zoom on Saturday 30 May 2020, for a joint meeting of Workers' Liberty's industrial “fractions”, groups of members in particular industries and sectors. Workers' Liberty currently has four industrial fractions – school workers; civil servants; higher education workers; and rail workers – and two cross-industrial union fractions – Unison, covering local government and health; and Unite, covering a range of industries and sectors. The meeting began with a survey of industrial and workplace issues thrown up by the pandemic, and union responses to...

Donate to our fund appeal! £10k by 22 November

12 May 2020

Donate to help Workers' Liberty argue, organise and fight in this crisis and beyond. We are aiming to raise £10,000 by 22 November. See this article for an update progress towards that target, and how to donate.

Covid-19 crisis: What we demand

04 May 2020 |

Workers' Liberty

Seven demands for the labour movement in the pandemic. Article and short video.

What's in the bag?

26 Feb 2020 |

Martin Thomas

In Eric Ambler’s novel about the consolidation of Stalinist control in Eastern Europe in the 1940s, Judgement on Deltchev, the narrator says: “I know a lot about Pashik now. I know, for instance, that the black dispatch case that he carried so importantly rarely contained anything but a stale meat sandwich and a revolver”. We are outside the time and period when the dispatch case was a symbol of status. And not at that pitch of political conflict in which, so memoirs tell us, the learned Russian Marxist Georgi Plekhanov always, when still in Russia and not yet in exile, carried brass knuckles...

A sexy communist giving a speech in a t-shirt which reads "Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, Socialism, Workers' Liberty"

Buy a t-shirt: Liberty, Equality, Solidarity, Socialism

03 Feb 2020

Workers' Liberty has created a new range of t-shirts. Buy for £12 + post Size XS (extra small) S (small) M (medium) L (large) XL (extra large) XXL (extra extra large, 2XL) Postage (& £12 for t-shirt) UK (£1.50 post) £13.50 GBP International (£5 post) £17.00 GBP The design reads: LIBERTY EQUALITY SOLIDARITY SOCIALISM WORKERS' LIBERTY Order them for £12 plus postage: £1.50 UK, £5 international. As well as being incredibly stylish, these serve three functions: fundraising for our vital activism, championing foundational political ideals, and raising the profile of our politics and organisation....