Workers' Government: what it means

• Britain in 2008: editorial from Solidarity 3/142, 20 November 2008
• Britain in 1998: excerpts from Jill Mountford, The case for a workers' government, Workers' Liberty 45
  
• How Solidarity Can Change The World: Workers' Liberty 46-7, April 1998, with full text of the Transitional Programme and of the Spartacus Programme, and an introduction discussing their relevance today
• Britain in 1997-8: debate from Workers' Liberty 37, January 1997; from Workers' Liberty 38, March 1997; and Workers' Liberty 39, April 1997
• Britain in 1996: editorial from Workers' Liberty 35, October 1996
• Britain in 1980: article by Sean Matgamna from Socialist Organiser, 25 October 1980, at the time of the great left-wing upsurge in the Labour Party
  
• Britain in 1980: article by Sean Matgamna from Workers' Action, 19 April to 10 May 1980, first raising the slogan
• Britain in 1977: discussion of the "workers' government" idea in a manifesto published by the forerunners of the AWL
  
• Britain in 1977: "The nature of our Action Programme", from a manifesto published by the forerunners of the AWL
  
• Britain in 1977: "What is an Action Programme?", from the preparatory discussion for the manifesto
  
• Britain in 1974: "The Workers' Government: an historical excavation"
  
• The USA in 1946: from Shachtman, The Fight For Socialism
  
• Fourth International, 1938: the section of the "Transitional Programme" written by Trotsky in 1938 dealing with the question of "Workers' and Peasants' Government"
  
• The Communist International around 1922: articles by Trotsky explaining the use of the idea by the early Communist Parties (avec aussi des textes en francais)
  
• Germany 1922: The debate on the "workers' government" in the Communist Party of Germany, 1922-3
  
• Germany 1922: Clara Zetkin on the "workers' government"
  
• Communist International, 1922: Karl Radek's speech explaining the "workers' government" at the Fourth Congress of the Communist International (from Workers' Liberty 43)
• Communist International, 1922: Theses, and debate, on the "Workers' Government" from the 4th Congress of the Communist International, 1922
  
• Communist International, 1921-2: Debate on "transitional demands" at the 4th Congress of the Communist International, 1922, and an excerpt from the theses of the 3rd Congress, 1921

Agenda for AWL day schools, 2009:

Agenda:

• The "workers' government" in the Communist Parties before Stalinism. The relation between parliamentary politics and workers' councils in countries of long-developed bourgeois democracy.
• The "workers' government" in Trotsky's Transitional Programme
• What was wrong with "Labour to power on socialist policies" as a rendition of the "workers' government" idea
• Break
• The "workers' government" around 1980
• The "workers' government" idea in the era of "New Labour". 1998 and after.
• The "workers' government" and the workers' plan today.