We Stand For Workers' Liberty

Who is Dita Sari?

Dita Sari, born in 1974, became an active socialist in Indonesia as a law student at the age of 19. She abandoned her studies, and the comfortable career they promised, to devote herself to organising trade unions and her party, the People's Democratic Party. Indonesia was then under a military dictatorship, in power since a 1965 CIA-backed coup in which maybe half a million people we killed on suspicion of being "communists". Dita's activity was illegal, and she was jailed in July 1996 on charges of "disturbing public order and security". In jail, she nearly died of typhoid. The commitment...

Who was Antonio Gramsci?

Antonio Gramsci (1891-1937) was an Italian Communist Party leader and Marxist theoretician imprisoned by the fascists in Italy. Gramsci grew up in a poor family in rural Sardinia, but, very unusually for someone from that background at that time, won a place at Turin University. Unable to progress well with his studies because of poverty, cold and hunger, he nevertheless became a socialist, joining the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in 1915. After World War One, and especially in 1919-20, Italy was convulsed by huge workers' struggles and factory occupations. The PSI had opposed World War One...

We stand for workers' liberty: contents

Online contents page for the pamphlet 'We stand for workers' liberty'. To view a study guide for the pamphlet, click here Chapter 1: What is the Alliance for Workers' Liberty? Plus: Who was Karl Marx? ; What we do — the anti-union laws ; What AWL members do ; Who was Leon Trotsky? Chapter 2: FAQ:

Help build No Sweat!

No Sweat, the British anti-sweatshop campaign, became a national network in 2001. Since then the organisation has extended the breadth of its work, which includes drives to pinpoint against sweatshop bosses in the UK and overseas. What No Sweat offers is a particular way of approaching such questions. Unlike the NGOs, No Sweat believes class is central. No Sweat's structures are open and flexible - there are Trotskyists like the AWL, anarchists, Labour Party leftists, trade union militants and activists from various backgrounds working together to achieve common goals. Six national trade...

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