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The AWL tradition: session at AWL's "Ideas for Freedom" school, 23 June 2013 (Audio)

At the AWL's "Ideas for Freedom" weekend event, on 23 June 2013, Sean Matgamna spoke on the political tradition of AWL and its forerunners. Click here to hear the recording Matgamna was a founding member, in 1966, of Workers' Fight, the group to which AWL traces back its political lineage. He explained how our tendency started out seeing itself as taking forward the "orthodox" Trotskyist tradition represented by James P Cannon and others, and, bit by bit, by experience and discussion, evolved politically. The recording includes Matgamna's initial presentation, the discussion from the floor...

"The IS tradition": John Palmer and Sean Matgamna debate at Ideas for Freedom 2013 (Audio)

At the AWL's "Ideas for Freedom" weekend event, on 22 June 2013, John Palmer debated with Sean Matgamna on the political tradition of IS, the group which after 1977 became the SWP. Palmer was a leading member of IS from the 1960s through to 1975. Matgamna is a member of the AWL, and was on the National Committee of IS from 1968 to 1971, representing the minority Trotskyist Tendency which was the forerunner of AWL. Opening speech by John Palmer Opening speech by Sean Matgamna Summing-up at end of debate by Sean Matgamna Summing-up at end of debate by John Palmer

Socialist (and anti-Stalinist) songs from the early 1950s (audio)

Socialist (and anti-Stalinist) songs by Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland, and a few other songs, from the early 1950s. For more on Glazer, Friedland, and the "Jacobin Jerques", click here . The Giveaway Boys In Washington - Joe Glazer Unite for Unity - Joe Glazer and Bill Friedland In Old Moscow - Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Our Line's Been Changed Again - Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Land Of The Daily Worker - Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Old Bolshevik Song - Joe Glazer & Bill Friedland Kevin Barry - Earl Robinson Talking Un-American Blues - Betty Sanders Joe Hill - Pete Seeger, Baldwin "Butch"...

The roots and history of British Trotskyism and of the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty: London study course 2008-9

A study course, led by Sean Matgamna. The Marxist movement in Britain before World War 1. Click here to hear the talk (mp3) . The Communist Party, the Labour Party, and the trade union movement: World War One to the 1930s. Click here to hear the introduction (mp3) and here to hear the summing-up (mp3) Reading: Brian Pearce: Early Years of the CPGB Brian Pearce: Some Past Rank and File Movements Sean Matgamna: The Labour Party in Perspective Brian Pearce: Marxism in Britain 1881-1920 is also worth reading for dates, and the brief summary at the end of how the CP was formed, though in the first...

An interview with Houzan Mahmood

An interview with Houzan Mahmood, recorded by delegate Traven Leyshon at the end of the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention in Chicago can be downloaded as an mp3 here (25mins/22MB).

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