AWL

Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class which owns the means of production. Society is shaped by the capitalists' relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the environment and much else.

Against the accumulated wealth and power of the capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity.

The Alliance for Workers' Liberty aims to build solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, workers' control and a democracy much fuller than the present, with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats' and managers' privileges.

We fight for the labour movement to break with "social partnership" and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses.

Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, supporting workers' struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping organise rank-and-file groups.

We stand for:

• Independent working-class representation in politics.
• A workers' government, based on and accountable to the labour movement.
• A workers' charter of trade union rights - to organise, to strike, to picket effectively, and to take solidarity action.
• Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education and jobs for all.
• A workers' movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay and bisexual people. Black and white workers' unity against racism.
• Open borders.
• Global solidarity against global capital - workers everywhere have more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist rulers.
• Democracy at every level of society from the smallest workplace or community to global social organisation.
• Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big and small.
• Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate!

If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell - and join us!

Unions in the pandemic

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...

£19,420 raised in 2020 fundraising drive

So far we've raised over £13,000 : beating our £10,000 target. A supporter has confirmed that they will double any amount donated above the original target between now and the 22 November, i.e. match fund. So please do keep donating! Thanks to everyone who's contributed so far, helping Workers' Liberty argue, organise and fight in this crisis and beyond.

What's in the bag?

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...

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

Workers' Liberty has created a new range of t-shirts. Buy for £12 + post Size XS (extra small) S (small) 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. Buy for £12 + post Size XS (extra small) S (small) Postage (& £12...

AWL delegation visits Paris

Since early December, France has been gripped by a mass strike movement over the Macron government’s plan to reform pensions. Workers’ Liberty organised a delegation of socialists of all ages from across the UK to visit France 24-26 January to bring our solidarity to strikers, and to talk to and learn from striking workers and socialist activists about events. By the time that we arrived in France, the movement was entering a new stage. After nearly 50 days of almost-uninterrupted strike action, transport workers were scaling back their action from an all-out strike every day to a series of...

Sponsor our Sheffield-Manchester ride!

Hannah Thompson and Dan Rawnsley from Sheffield will be doing a sponsored bike ride to raise funds for Workers’ Liberty on 15 February 2020. The ride will be from Sheffield to Manchester, a slightly shorter distance but, because of the hills, a much harder ride than the one from London to Cambridge which raised £1250 in October. We’ve set £1917 as a provisional target for total sponsorships this time, and it has raised £140 in the first few hours of the website going live. Add your contribution here . Our fund-drive total so far stands at £15,750.93. We need another £9,249.07 to reach our £25...

Sponsor us: Cycling over the peaks for socialism!

Sponsor Dan and Hannah to cycling over the peaks for the cause of socialism , Sheffield to Manchester on February 15. On the 15th February 2020, Dan and Hannah will be cycling from Sheffield, through the Peak district, to Manchester. The distance is around 50 miles or 80 km, with some serious climbs. Like this cycle ride, but on a much larger scale, the fight for socialism requires some serious climbs, and charting our course through hills and mountains on the way. Organising at work, fighting against climate change and anti-union laws, for migrants' rights and free movement, and campaigning...

The socialist left in the Labour campaign

The Tory campaign for this general election has more money, but the Labour campaign has more people. Tens of thousands of Labour volunteers are taking to the streets and the phone-banks. As socialist internationalists, we are with those volunteers. The labour movement is our movement, and we want it to win in this election against the Tories and Lib Dems. We also have more to do than adding our numbers to the general labour movement mobilisation. We have political tasks. The road to socialism, in our view, fundamentally goes through working-class organisation and struggle in the workplaces and...

Help us raise £25,000

Thanks this week to Ian Townson, £1,000, Linda and Harold Youd £50, and John Cunningham, £20. Their contributions bring our fund-drive total to £15,460.93. We have another £9,539.07 to raise to reach our £25,000 target. Less than £10,000 to go! Three comrades from Sheffield tell us they’re planning a sponsored bike ride. Since October’s sponsored bike ride, by a single rider, raised £1,250, we should have a good chance of raising several thousands from that. We’ve already spent a lot of money on buying leaflets for the general election campaign from Labour for a Socialist Europe — and now...

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