Solidarity & More

This short pamphlet explains why trade unions should not be giving political and financial support to a newspaper which is not the "daily paper of the left" but the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB). More online and buy: https://workersliberty.org/morningstar The Morning Star is not an effective way for unions to gain support for their disputes and campaign. And the political cost...

The Easter Rising and Irish history: The two souls of Irish nationalism? An attempt at a Marxist account. An inspiration across the world? Or an eclipse of working-class socialism by narrow nationalism? Both were in the Easter Rising. Workers' Liberty vol. 3 issue 75, Solidarity 694, is a special on this topic. More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/lates...

The left in Ukraine: Workers' Liberty 3/74, printed with Solidarity 683. Articles: The left in Ukraine Back Ukraine’s teachers and children Student organising in Ukraine Rescuing the Holocaust from Stalinism: Lviv Rescuing the Holocaust from Stalinism: Babyn Yar More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/left

Israel out of the Occupied Territories! For a Palestinian state with the same rights as Israel! For Arab-Jewish workers' unity on a basis of consistent democracy! For a socialist Israel and a socialist Palestine in a socialist federation of the Middle East! This Pamphlet contains articles, debates and more setting out Workers' Liberty's position on the conflict in Israel-Palestine arguing that a t...

Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist mag by Workers' Liberty. Issue 27 includes articles on women and the cost-of-living crisis, war-time feminist activism in Ukraine, the US abortion rights battle, women workers' struggles in South Asia, feminist cities, social reproduction and trans rights, and much more... https://workersliberty.org/wf27

James Connolly in World War One — Running with the Hare and Riding with the Hounds. Workers' Liberty vol. 3 no. 71, February 2023.

Audio of the pamphlet: https://workersliberty.org/sak-pamphlet Shapurji Saklatvala, revolutionary socialist, Indian nationalist and Labour's first BAME MP, was elected in 1922. Representing radical local and international workers' and anti-colonial struggles, he suffered ostracism, surveillance, imprisonment and exile from India to fight against capitalism, racism and imperialism: for working-clas...

Activists from socialist organisation Sotsianiy Rukh in Ukraine and from the anti-war movement in Russia spoke at our Ideas for Freedom event this year, at a session on workers' solidarity with Ukraine. Comrades from Workers' Liberty who were part of an international labour movement and left solidarity delegation to Ukraine also reported back on their experience.

Audio version of the pamphlet. More here: https://workersliberty.org/laird-occupation In 1984 workers at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead occupied their workplace in defence of jobs. The occupation and the strike which preceded it lasted just over three months, and then on 3 October the occupiers were arrested. 37 of them were found guilty of contempt of court and jailed. There is a campai...

Aiming to replace capitalism with socialism, James Connolly’s organising and ideas evolved considerably. One idea he clung to from the turn of the century to his death in 1916 was industrial unionism, workers’ solidarity across grades and trades and sympathetic strikes. That is how he saw his work with Larkin on the Irish Transport Union: a union for an industry and the members watching the moment...

More online and buy a pamphlet: https://workersliberty.org/sylvia Of the famous suffragette family Pankhurst — Emmeline, Christabel, Adela — Sylvia became the pioneer communist who organised the East End of London, where many working class men also lacked the vote. The pamphlet recounts the contrasting evolutions of the "votes for ladies" of Christabel and Emmeline, and of Sylvia's working-class o...

No To War - Solidarity with Ukraine Intro and summation speeches from a meeting of the same name, Monday 1 March, 2022. Speakers: • Denys Pilash from the Socialist group Sotsialny Rukh in Ukraine. • Chris Ford from Ukraine Solidarity Campaign. • Dale Street from Workers Liberty. Putins invasion of Ukraine is to force Ukraine to be part of Russia sphere of influence at the very least and may even b...

What should socialists do in the unions? A discussion led by RMT activist Janine Booth and UCU activist Josh. This is one of many discussions we had at our dayschool "After Corbynism: Building a New Left" on 27 November 2021 at the Camden School for Girls in London.

James Connolly is most associated with the Easter Rising of 1916 when, amidst the imperialist slaughter of the First World War, Irish republicans and the revolutionary socialist Irish Citizen Army launched an armed uprising against the British Empire. The Rising triggered a series of events, culminating in the Irish War of Independence in 1919 and the Irish Civil War, and shaped the course of mode...

As socialists we organise for Palestinian rights. But do we aim for a Palestinian state alongside and with the same rights as Israel, or for a multi-ethnic, inclusive, secular, socialist state? What are the prospects for these perspectives? How do we analyse Zionism, the right of return and the class struggle in Israel-Palestine? Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bpIzJufiCw Recordings from d...

This is one of many discussions we held at our dayschool "After Corbynism: Building a New Left" at the Camden School for Girls on 27 November 2021. Speaker: Ruth Cashman, trade unionist in Lambeth Unison

Janine Booth gives an illustrated talk about 'colour bars' on the UK railway between the end of the Second World War and their formal abolition in 1966. Video: https://youtu.be/YEuFPgmOdB4 This talk was given at an online meeting in September 2020 hosted by Workers' Liberty bulletins Tubeworker and Off The Rails. Future meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Tubeworker: https://www.workersl...

Vestas wind turbine blade workers occupied their factory at St Cross, Newport, on 20 July 2009. They demanded that the Government nationalise Vestas Isle of White factories and continue production of turbine blades. This pamphlet brings together that story through the eyes of Vestas workers and their supporters. Buy a paper copy, download a PDF, and more, at: https://workersliberty.org/vestas-pamp...

COP26 has failed us. Humanity remains on a path towards catastrophic climate change. World leaders, serving only narrow nationalist and capitalistic interests won't challenge the power of the system accelerating climate change – so we have to. The coalition of forces taking this on is diverse but in large parts disconnected. From civil society groups like Insulate Britain, student activist network...

Sections from Solidarity 575, written by Len Glover. Bosnia-Herzegovina: 25 years after Dayton. Published December 2020, audio published a year later. More online: https://workersliberty.org/index.php/publications/solidarity/solidarity-575-9-december-2020

Should socialists advocate "degrowth"? Our socialist environmental reading group looked at the "degrowth" debate from a Marxist perspective. The two core articles - free to download - were Kallis, Socialism Without Growth (2017) and Schwartzman and Engel Di-Mauro, A Response to Giorgios Kallis’ Notions of Socialism and Growth (2019). https://sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1080/10455752.2017.1386695 and https...

Geoengineering and carbon drawdown: thinking through climate futures, with Holly Jean Buck, author of "After Geoengineering: Climate Tragedy, Repair, and Restoration", and Zack Muddle, Workers' Liberty. Introductory and concluding speeches from a discussion by the same name at Ideas for Freedom 2021. More on this topic: https://workersliberty.org/geoengineering-readings Video of this: https://yout...

Corbynism: What Went Wrong? Part 5 of 5, chapters 20-23, pages 45-60. In summer 2015 things suddenly “went right” for the left in an unexpected way, with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader. By December 2019, they had evidently “gone wrong” again. That can’t be explained just by ill-will from the media and the Labour right: those were always there. This booklet offers an attempt to analyse t...

Corbynism: What Went Wrong? Part 4 of 5, chapters 16-19, pages 34-44. In summer 2015 things suddenly “went right” for the left in an unexpected way, with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader. By December 2019, they had evidently “gone wrong” again. That can’t be explained just by ill-will from the media and the Labour right: those were always there. This booklet offers an attempt to analyse t...

Corbynism: What Went Wrong? Part 3 of 5, chapters 13-15, pages 15-34. In summer 2015 things suddenly “went right” for the left in an unexpected way, with Jeremy Corbyn’s election as Labour leader. By December 2019, they had evidently “gone wrong” again. That can’t be explained just by ill-will from the media and the Labour right: those were always there. This booklet offers an attempt to analyse t...