Looking backward: Workers' Liberty 3/26

Sean Matgamna: finding my way to Trotskyism, part 1: the "manacles" of nations and classes

Sean Matgamna founded the Workers’ Fight group after political battles with and within the bigger Trotskyist groups that existed in the mid-1960s, the SLL and the Militant. How did he come to do that? Or to become a Trotskyist at all? I’d considered myself a communist from when I was between 15 and 16, early in 1957. In 1959 I became politically active as a would-be revolutionary trade unionist, and I decided to join the Young Communist League. I was working in a timber yard in Salford where was no union for the labourers. I decided to join the union and see if I could get the others to join...

The origins of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty: the thirteen basic questions

The origins of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty: the thirteen questions (This is an expanded version of the text in Workers Liberty 3/26) The political tendency now organised as AWL originates from Workers’ Fight, a small Trotskyist group formed in 1966. Why, and how? Workers’ Fight came into existence as a distinct tendency in response to two linked “crises”. There was a prolonged crisis of British capitalist society, and of the labour movement which had grown so very powerful within it and yet was unable — despite a mass socialist sentiment in the trade unions — to overthrow capitalism and...

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