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"More rail yes, HS2 maybe not": Simon Nelson wrote that article for Solidarity 535, February 2020. After that is a response by Mark Catterall’, then a reply to that by Simon Nelson. Then there is the Further Reading box. More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet *Further reading* We have a weekly envi...

What kind of union do we need? There are strengths and weaknesses in our current union set-up. Union officials will often have you believe that things can only be done the way they are done, because ... well, because they have always been done that way. We do not agree. We have several criticisms of the existing rail unions, so it is only fair that we set out in more positive terms what our ideal...

Women's Fightback 25, Winter/Spring 2021. Articles include: Tenants' organising and feminism Understanding emotional labour Wages for immigration? Pregnancy, abortion and the women's strike Social reproduction in prisons Rent strike! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-25-winterspring-2021

Women's Fightback 25, Winter/Spring 2021. Articles include: Can Biden kill off Trumpism? Solidarity with the Uyghur people Free Nodeep Kaur Feminism, Interrupted: a write-up The Paris Commune and the Union des Femmes Cancel culture and trans rights Esther Roper, Eva Gore-Booth and "Urania" More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-25-winterspring-2021

Women's Fightback 25, Winter/Spring 2021, part 1 of 2, pages 1 to 9. Articles include: Strajk! An interview with Ewa Pospieszynska Life under lockdown Working mums, paying the price Cut the working week Discrimination on the Tube Women of the Poplar rebellion More green space Can Biden kill off Trumpism? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-25-wint...

For #InternationalWomensDay 2021 Jill Mountford takes a look at the origins of IWD, the work of Mary McArthur and the women chainmakers of Cradley Heath: their fight against injustice, and fights against sweatshop labour today. #ChooseToChallenge sweatshop labour Tonight at 6pm Workers' Liberty Students have a meeting on it: https://facebook.com/events/761405588108413 And at 7pm Leeds Workers' Lib...

Tubeworker and Off The Rails - two rank-and-file bulletins published by Workers' Liberty - hosted an online meeting on 19 November 2020. These are the two opening speeches, from TWU Local 100 Fightback's John Ferretti and Vermont socialist Traven Leyshon. Videos: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-12-10/video-us-rail-workers-struggles-wake-presidential-election Future meetings: https://www.work...

Sweeping cuts are now taking place and are expected in local authorities across the UK, but neither Labour nor the left are prepared for this. If Labour does not take up the fight it will have much less chance of winning back working-class voters, and importantly, saving the jobs and services we all rely on. Josh Lovell, a Labour Party councillor (in opposition) discusses the history of past battl...

Intro speeches from 15 December on "After the US election, which way for the left?" by Ruth Cashman; Thomas Harrison, New Politics Editorial Board (personal capacity); and Robert Cuffy, Guyanese socialist based in New York, member of DSA and the Socialist Workers Alliance of Guyana. From a meeting of the same name, future meetings at: https://workersliberty.org/meetings All audio: https://workersl...

Introductory speech by Daniel Randall from a meeting of the same name. Future meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Video: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/what-is-left-antisemitism-and-how-can-it-be-confronted-with-daniel-randall-workers-liberty The imminent publication of the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) report, as well as the ongoing fallout from the Panorama docume...

RMT activists Janine Booth and John Pencott offer their views on fighting the wave of job cuts that face the rail industry. These were the opening remarks at an online meeting held on 16 July 2020, hosted by Tubeworker and Off The Rails, bulletins written by and for Tube and rail workers respectively and published by Workers' Liberty. Tubeworker: https://workersliberty.org/tubeworker OTR: https://...

Introductory speeches from a meeting of the same name, which outline the complex events that led up to the war, left responses and legacies of the war. Sarah Correia is a researcher at LSE, researching memories of the Bosnian war. Martin Thomas talks about the response of much of the left at the time. A recent interview on this topic with Sarah Correia: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-09-09/...

The 1945 Labour Government - an introduction by Mark Catterall to what lead to the election victory and what socialists today can learn from it. From a meeting in May 2020. Upcoming meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Video: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-09-07/video-1945-labour-government-causes-and-lessons

A speech by Dan Davison, a labour activist and sociology PhD student at the University of Cambridge, for a talk on C.L.R. James and the Haitian Revolution held in July 2020. Future meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Read online: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-08-26/black-jacobins-haitian-revolution-against-slavery All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio Cyril Lionel Robert Ja...

Workers against slavery: the US Civil War, the First International and the British working class. A Workers' Liberty pamphlet by Sacha Ismail. In 1865, slavery was abolished in the United States at the end of a four year Civil War. This Workers' Liberty pamphlet looks at the stand taken during the war by workers in Britain, who organised mass protests against slavery and against British ruling-cla...

How To Beat The Racists, part 10 of 10. Contents: How Europe underdeveloped Africa — by Chris Reynolds No Sweat: workers of the world unite against sweatshop labour — by Sacha Ismail Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, download the pdf, order a paper copy, or subscribe to our newspaper: https://workersliberty.org/beat-the-ra...

How To Beat The Racists, part 9 of 10. Contents: "No-platform" and free speech — by Violet Martin Self-defence is no offence Lewisham: a turning point The Anti-Nazi League: The poverty of "anti-fascism" — by Mark Osborn Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, download the pdf, order a paper copy, or subscribe to our newspaper: h...

How To Beat The Racists, part 8 of 10. Contents: What is the Nation of Islam? The Black Panthers: The cult of the gun — by Dan Katz The Panther Programme (1966) Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, download the pdf, order a paper copy, or subscribe to our newspaper: https://workersliberty.org/beat-the-racists Anti-racist reso...

"Minnie Lansbury - a different sort of Labour councillor", intro speeches with Janine Booth, author of 'Minnie Lansbury: suffragette, socialist and rebel councillor', and Selina Gellert, the great niece of Minnie Lansbury — from a meeting by the same name. Upcoming meetings at: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Video version: https://youtu.be/Cer7PeO0Nb4 Janine's books: https://fiveleaves.co.uk/...

How To Beat The Racists, part 7 of 10. Contents: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X — by Dion D'Silva Was Malcolm X a socialist? — by Martin Thomas Black trade unionists today Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, download the pdf, order a paper copy, or subscribe to our newspaper: https://workersliberty.org/beat-the-racists Ant...

How To Beat The Racists, part 6 of 10. Contents: The roots of anti-semitism — by Dan Katz The roots of racism — by Jeni Bailey Unemployment Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, download the pdf, order a paper copy, or subscribe to our newspaper: https://workersliberty.org/beat-the-racists Anti-racist resources: https://worker...

How To Beat The Racists, part 5 of 10. Contents: A short history of black people in Britain William Cuffay Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, download the pdf, order a paper copy, or subscribe to our newspaper: https://workersliberty.org/beat-the-racists Anti-racist resources: https://workersliberty.org/anti-racist-resource...

How To Beat The Racists, part 4 of 10. Contents: What is fascism? The battle for Cable Street Trotsky on fascism: Demonstrations are not enough; For workers' unity against the fascists; No to state bans!; The causes of fascism Oldham, Burnley and Bradford: The threat from the fascist BNP Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how-to-beat-the-racists Read the articles online, d...

Brazil is now one of the epicentres of the novel coronavirus pandemic. The far-right Bolsonaro government's irrational response to the pandemic has triggered political turmoil. The Black Lives Matter movement has organised against widespread racism and police violence in Brazil. A Workers' Liberty activist from Brazil discusses the political background to current events. Introductory speech from J...

How To Beat The Racists, part 3 of 10. Contents: Police injustice — UK — by Alan McArthur Free Mumia abu-Jamal! America's racist death penalty The police after Macpherson: still armed and dangerous — by Sacha Ismail Police violence: "representative"? Police violence — the facts Free Satpal Ram! Racist attacks What we say on the police Whole playlist: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/how...