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  For Marxism, international solidarity & revolutionary socialism - Alliance for Workers' Liberty resources index page
To join the AWL, email us with your contact details, or contact your local AWL branch, and an AWL organiser will arrange to meet you and sort it out.
AWL basic political education course, and other educational and study courses.
Check out the decisions of the AWL conferences 2003, 2002 and 2000; AWL Activist Notes; and AWL discussion bulletins.
archive.workersliberty.org   (220 words)

  
 Liberty
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 Workers Liberty Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Workers Liberty is a small Trotskyist political party in Australia.
It is closely aligned with the Alliance for Workers' Liberty in the United Kingdom.
The group, founded in 1980, became a founder member of the Socialist Alliance, and publishes a bi-monthly newspaper, also called Workers' Liberty.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Workers_Liberty_Australia   (157 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance - Encyclopedia, History, Geography and Biography
The Socialist Alliance was a left-wing electoral alliance in England in existence between 1992 and 2005.
The Socialist Alliance was named and expanded in 1999, when other Trotskyist groups including the Socialist Workers Party and Workers Power joined, as did the formerly separate London Socialist Alliance.
The Socialist Alliance has been riven by feuds, mostly concerning the behaviour of the Socialist Workers Party, which was by far the largest group participating in the Alliance, and which many felt dominated it.
www.arikah.net /encyclopedia/Socialist_Alliance   (472 words)

  
 AWL: Britain’s Revolutionary Imperialists   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Not of course that the AWL is alone in wrestling with this dilemma.
When AWL first adopted this position I argued with them, in debates and articles, that what they are doing is supporting an imperialist solution to the problem – a Palestinian Bantustan which would merely replace the face of the Israeli soldier with that of the Palestinian.
AWL is at home with these reactionaries, many of whom argue that it is no business of trade unions to meddle in the politics of other countries.
www.whatnextjournal.co.uk /Pages/Latest/AWL.html   (3054 words)

  
 Marxism
Marx claimed the source of profits under capitalism is value added by workers not paid out in wages—a claim he found implied in the works of Adam Smith and especially in David Ricardo but never explicitly formulated.
Some of these ideas were shared by anarchist s, though they differed in their beliefs on how to bring about an end to the class society.
Alliance for Workers' Liberty (Britain) - This group, formerly known as Socialist Organiser is active in the British labour movement and the Labour Party (Great Britain).
www.nebulasearch.com /encyclopedia/article/Marxism.html   (2151 words)

  
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The Alliance for Workers Liberty, the old 'Socialist Organiser', have been in and around the Labour party for years.
Workers' government: The question of government is central to working-class politics.
While the Alliance has a single candidate in each constituency who obviously can only express one view on any issue - so pluralism largely has to be accommodated by a sort of haphazard local autonomy - a weekly party paper can easily headline a majority policy while giving due rights to minority views.
homepage.ntlworld.com /preptalk/AWL.htm   (3188 words)

  
 Who we are | Workers' Liberty
We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, workers' control and a democracy much fuller than the present, with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats' and managers' privileges.
Without solidarity, the individual worker, or small group of workers, is powerless against the accumulated and concentrated power of the wealthy.
Workers' Liberty est une organisation trotskyste britannique, liée à un groupe en Australie (Workers' Liberty), et qui tient des rapports de discussion avec plusieurs groupes dans d'autres pays.
www.workersliberty.org /taxonomy/term/376   (1073 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 458 Thursday November 28 2002
Because relations between the leaderships of the Communist Party of Great Britain and the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty have soured over this issue to the point of mutual acrimony and total mistrust and have brought forth a flood of lies and distortions about our past and present politics.
The AWL comrades have half-broken with auto-Labourism, adopted - albeit in an untheorised fashion - the demand for a federal republic and we have cooperated, often very closely, in the Socialist Alliance.
Of course, that the AWL is against carrying what they stupidly call “gossip” in any of its own publications is a cross entirely of their own making.
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/458/awl.html   (4182 words)

  
 Towards a new workers' party
Workers' Liberty has been arguing that the Socialist Alliance needs to become much more than an electoral alliance if it is to succeed at enlarging and mobilising support for working-class socialist politics.
Workers' Liberty will be renewing proposals for a more comprehensive and explicitly working class and socialist platform for the SA, to be debated up to and at the May 2003 SA conference.
We are for the alliance to commence its own weekly publication from the May conference onwards, once there has been time to consider and discuss the editorial policy and nature of the weekly publication.
www.greenleft.org.au /back/2002/510/510p10.htm   (1009 words)

  
 RED GROUPS OF THE UK
Alliance for Workers Liberty: Originally known as “Workers Fight,” the AWL was formed from a splinter group of Gerry Healy’s Socialist Labour League (later known as the WRP).
The AWL considers itself a Shachtmanite organization, drawing on the ideas of Max Shachtman from the period after he broke with Trotskyism but before he became a right-wing social democrat.
The Alliances were discontinued when the Socialist Labour Party was formed, but they were resurrected in 1999 when the SLP failed to deliver.
reds.linefeed.org /ukgroups.html   (3213 words)

  
 Weekly Worker 464 Thursday January 23 2003
Amongst others the Socialist Alliance’s March 2002 trade union conference was addressed by the CPGB’s Lee Rock, PCSU London secretary, and Peter Grant, chair of Manchester Piccadilly Aslef.
Comrade Matgamna might like to pretend that he and the AWL possess the fully perfected Marxist programme and are busily carving out the future that the AWL alone proclaims through magnificent victories scored in the thick of the class struggle.
When the AWL comrades were beavering away in the bowels of the Labour Party and calling for a new Labour Representation Committee, would it be fair, or accurate, to categorise their ascribed traditions under the heading of Labourism and Kier Hardie, let alone Philip Snowden, Ramsay MacDonald and Clement Attlee?
www.cpgb.org.uk /worker/464/awl.html   (4059 words)

  
 BBC NEWS | VOTE2001 | PARTIES | Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance proposes to pay for these reforms by taking the wealth that they say is in the hands of a tiny elite and re-distributing it to benefit the great majority.
The alliance was formed in a bid to boost support across the board for socialists.
The alliance plans to campaign, not just in elections, but in "every big struggle" be it in the workplace or on housing estates.
news.bbc.co.uk /vote2001/hi/english/parties/newsid_1179000/1179195.stm   (383 words)

  
 Anti-Global, No; Anti-Capitalist, Yes
The long-term program of uniting workers, employed and unemployed, native and migrant, and across national borders, is not dispensable, but it is not to be counterposed to immediate struggles either.
Workers in some previously low-wage countries have won big improvements thanks to strong and courageous union organization (South Korea being the prime example), but overall, averages of income have become more unequal between countries, rather than more equal.
Workers' reconstruction plans were proposed by revolutionary socialists in Europe after World War II, and the capitalist governments there actually carried out capitalist reconstruction plans, rather than leaving reconversion for peacetime to the free play of the markets.
www.wpunj.edu /~newpol/issue29/thomas29.htm   (3188 words)

  
 IRVAJ English -
The attack was a bloody response to a sit-in and protest action held by the company’s contract workers and their families, including many elderly women who were there to support their children.
The city is half closed and people have been gathering in front of the residences of the murdered workers demanding immediate identification of those responsible for their killings.
Lack of independent workers’ organizations and the right to strike have caused much pressure and anxiety to workers and their families because they feel their voices are unheard and repressed.
iranvajahan.net /cgi-bin/news.pl?l=en&y=2004&m=02&d=05&a=8   (681 words)

  
 Workers' Liberty | For international working class solidarity and socialism
As a member of the executive of the Communication Workers Union I want to appeal to the broad labour and trade union movement to rally to the postal workers in our dispute with Royal Mail.
Throughout the course of the debate leading up to AWL's 2007 AGM, and the debate at the AGM itself, it became obvious that many AWL members did not have a clear understanding of what those of us who held a minority position on Iraq were really advocating.
The Communication Workers' Union (CWU) has announced another day of strike action by postal workers in their fight for a pay rise to match inflation and secure negotiations on Royal Mail's plans for drastic job cuts and speed-up.
www.workersliberty.org   (1796 words)

  
 MoneySearch.org - Unclaimed Money and Unclaimed Funds Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Alliance for Workers' Liberty (Britain): This group, formerly known as Socialist Organiser is active in the British labour movement and the Labour Party (Great Britain).
Revolutionary Workers League/U.S. Founded in 1984, the RWL is the sympathizing section in the United States of the International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC).
Workers World online: Under the leadership of Sam Marcy, this group split from the Socialist Workers Party (US) in the late 1950s over the latter's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
moneysearch.org /Top/Society/Politics/Socialism/Organizations   (1772 words)

  
 We Stand For Workers' Liberty | Workers' Liberty
In his mid-20s, partly under the influence of workers' socialist groups he met during a stay in Paris, he decided to throw in his lot with the working class then emerging as a social force in Europe.
In Hungary in 1956, workers set up factory councils and district-based revolutionary councils to maintain the general strike.
The Labour Representation Committee (LRC) is a movement formed by trade unionists and socialists to fight for the principle of labour representation within the Labour Party, the unions and parliament.
www.workersliberty.org /taxonomy/term/484   (1286 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance
The Socialist Alliance intends to field up to a hundred candidates in the forthcoming election, specifically targeting disaffected Labour voters who feel 'betrayed' by Tony Blair and may want a 'socialist alternative'.
Since workers are unlikely to be turned on to what the Leninists really stand for, a plethora of unworkable reforms is served up for the working class's edification.
Within the SA, groups such as the SWP, Militant and the AWL have been 'out-lefted' by the likes of the CPGB and WP who argue that the former are 'economistic' and 'centrist'—Leninist speak for lacking revolutionary vision.
www.worldsocialism.org /spgb/apr01/alliance.html   (1405 words)

  
 Socialist Alliance - Definition up Erdmond.Com
The alliance grew out of the London_Socialist_Alliance and other local Socialist Alliances, many of which ran in elections as the ''United Socialists''.
The Socialist Alliance have been riven by feuds, mostly concerning the behaviour of the Socialist Workers Party, which is by far the largest group participating in the Alliance, and which many feel dominates it.
A sizeable minority of the SA objected to the way this decision was carried out and argued that the SWP were using their block_vote to push their line.
www.erdmond.com /Socialist_Alliance.html   (372 words)

  
 trot list
The Alliance for Workers Liberty in the UK and Solidarity in the US both have currents that hold to this definition.
Workers Revolutionary Party Newspaper: Workers Press PO Box 735 London, SW8 1YB England E-mail: sOgp@exnet.co.uk Brief description: One of the fragments that came out of the breakup of Gerry Healy's WRP several years ago.
Worker's World Party Newspaper: Workers World (US$20.00/yr) Theoretical Journal: Liberation and Marxism (US$10/year, theoretically bi-monthly) 55 W. 17th St. New York, NY 10011 Website: http://www.workers.org E-mail: Brief Description: Descended from a split inthe US Socialist Workers Party, the WWP can best be described as orthodox Marxist Leninist.
www.leninism.org /pof/discuss-may97/trotlist.htm   (1974 words)

  
 Leninism, Communism, Socialism, Trotskyism, Stalinism, Maoism, Marxism in England and Wales   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
The NCP position is that they should help raise the consciousness of politically backward workers; Partisan believe their task is to organise the politically advanced to lead the class as a whole.
Are in alliance with Partisan in the NCMLU.
They are sympathetic towards Workers Power but regard them as not being international enough in their perspective.
www.geocities.com /mgekelly/lenin.html   (2863 words)

  
 What are the differences between Marxism and Anarchism?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Related to this is the question of the so-called "workers' state." Marxists are for it, anarchists are against it.
He argued that as the government was elected by the workers, the workers had nothing to fear from its imposing appointees!
Before, during and after the civil war Russian workers took collective action in defence of their interests and, moreover, faced martial law, lockouts, mass arrests of strikers and the imprisonment and shooting of "ringleaders." This happened all through the Civil War, which hardly makes sense.
anarchism.ws /writers/anarcho/left/marxismanarchism.html   (4814 words)

  
 Anti-War Demos Give Marxists a New Lease of Life   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
It also comprises senior figures from the Socialist Alliance, a Marxist umbrella organisation that includes groups such as the Socialist Workers Party and the Alliance for Workers Liberty.
The aims of the alliance are to create "a popular socialist republic, based on democratic common ownership and democratic control of the key sectors of the economy."
The Left retains a predilection for division that was brilliantly parodied in Monty Python's Life of Brian with the Judean People's Front and their deadly enemies, the People's Front of Judea, who hated each other more than they disliked the Romans.
www.frontpagemag.com /Articles/Printable.asp?ID=6812   (627 words)

  
 Open Directory - Society: Politics: Socialism: Organizations   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Internationalist Group (U.S.) - The IG is led by Jan Norden, ex-editor of Workers' Vanguard, who was expelled from Spartacist League/International Communist League and formed the League for the Fourth International in which the IG is the US section.
Revolutionary Workers League/U.S. - Founded in 1984, the RWL is the sympathizing section in the United States of the International Trotskyist Committee for the Political Regeneration of the Fourth International (ITC).
Workers World online - Under the leadership of Sam Marcy, this group split from the Socialist Workers Party (US) in the late 1950s over the latter's condemnation of the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
dmoz.org /Society/Politics/Socialism/Organizations   (1619 words)

  
 Alliance for Workers' Liberty conference March 2000
Both the involvement of workers in struggle and the role of Marxists as 'the memory of the class' mean that we are not starting from a clean slate.
Non-sectarian socialists will strive to build the broadest possible alliances around their candidacies, with other socialist factions, with trade unions and community organisations, etc. Nevertheless, we know that the only people the AWL can absolutely rely on to stand up for independent working-class politics are ourselves.
The postal workers have continued to be a beacon of unofficial action, they have also through out major national deal which was the final part of a crap deal resulting from the 1987 national strike.
archive.workersliberty.org /resources/conf2000.htm   (16099 words)

  
 UK Indymedia - Nick Cohen debates Workers' Liberty on Iraq war   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
Alliance for Workers' Liberty London forum - Nick Cohen debates the AWL on Iraq
During the Iraq war, Nick Cohen argued that the left could only discharge its obligations of solidarity to the Iraqi working class by supporting military action; the AWL opposed the war while trying to build direct links with the Iraqi left.
awl: extremely secterian in the anti-war camp — red letter
www.indymedia.org.uk /en/2004/03/286738.html   (201 words)

  
 News - October '01
As befits a group with no record of any involvement in anti-fascism in two decades the ‘Alliance for Workers Liberty’ pamphlet entitled “How to beat the racists” is trite, ill-informed, outdated, revisionist, contradictory, and thoroughly abstract.
Horribly confused, as a result of having not seen active service in twenty years, the AWL seem to believe that normally or possibly ideally, the best fighters against the far-right are almost always drawn from ethnic backgrounds.
One indication of the scale of the reservoir that the far-right was prevented from tapping into in that period can be gauged from race attacks/incidents estimates of the Runnymeade Trust, which showed a year on year rise from 70,000 in 1987 to a staggering 290,000 a decade later.
www.redaction.org /news/oct_01.html   (7787 words)

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