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A donation of £155 from Zack and £50 from Lucy takes us to £3,412, towards our £10,000 target by 22 November. We have seen an increase in sales of our paper and some of our pamphlets at the recent Black Lives Matter demos. All our branches are now thinking of ways to adapt to sales with less cash-handling. You can continue to support us by making donations by bank transfer, by PayPal, or by cheque to our office. (The industrial estate in which our office is sited will soon, we’re told, be open longer hours). We are continuing our programme of online meetings even while the lockdown eases. Zoom...

This week has been a slow one, taking us only from £3,125 to £3,207 towards our target of £10,000 by 22 November. Only a few small donations this week, but several more promised for the next week! As more and more places now become card-only, why not get your change jars paid in and send the money to us? We’ve been selling literature at the Black Lives Matter protests while trying to maintain covid- distancing, collecting cash payments in collection boxes rather than by hand, and using portable contactless card payment machines (until demos get so big they overwhelm the mobile phone networks...

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...

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.

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

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...

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...

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...

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 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...