Solidarity & More

An introductory speech by Becky Crocker on "Who was Lenin?" part of the "ABCs of Marxism" series of meetings by Workers' Liberty. Watch video: https://youtu.be/jNNjTbgqH_8 Upcoming online meetings: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Russian Revolution: When Workers took power, at https://www.workersliberty.org/russian-revolution **Timeline** 1860s and 70s - Populism – Lenin’s brother attempted...

Tom Harris's opening speech in a meeting "Rise of the Far Right In Europe: How to Fight It". For future meetings see: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Video online at: https://youtu.be/jFcckjO3Swo All audio and link to subscribe: www.workersliberty.org/audio - The growth in anti-semitism across Europe - Attacks on migrant rights - Scapegoating of immigrants and refugees - The rise nationalist...

An introduction to "The Communist Manifesto", a classic Marxist Text, by Daniel Rawnsley — part of the ABCs of Marxism series. Upcoming online meetings at: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Watch the video of this: https://youtu.be/kTqrbXcLH6Y Read or download the text at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ Listen to it: https://librivox.org/the-communist-man...

What should socialists and activists who support trans rights be doing to further this today? Lead off and summation from "Trans Rights and the labour movement today", the final session in "The fight for trans rights: past, present and future". Listen to the previous session at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/berlins-third-sex-the-fight-for-trans-rights-past-present-and-future See the video...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 11 of 11, pages 108 to 116. A letter to Scargill, by Sean Matgamna, from Socialist Organiser (issue 200) 11 October 1984. "Arthur Scargill, Lech Wałęsa: militants in distorting mirrors". A palm-sized samizdat edition of the Polish-language Trotskyist publication, Imprekor, carried...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 10 of 11, pages 102 to 107. An open letter to Frank Chapple, published in Socialist Organiser, 13 September 1980. Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/wo...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 9 of 11, pages 93 to 100. Appendix: From the Polish coup to the present day; a brief summary, by Stan Crooke Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/workers...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 8 of 11, pages 85 to 92. Sections in this recording: The Party works towards crushing the workers’ movement December 1981: the coup Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https:/...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 7 of 11, pages 76 to 84. Sections in this recording: The workers’ press The hunger marches Solidarność’s Congress Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/wo...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 6 of 11, pages 68 to 75. Sections in this recording: The Party March 1981 The Party’s IX Congress Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/se...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 5 of 11, pages 62 to 67. Sections in this recording: After August Politics, the Party, intervention, and the “self-limiting revolution” Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: htt...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 4 of 11, pages 45 to 62. Sections in this recording: The August events, 1980 The 21 Demands Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/sol...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 3 of 11, pages 30-44. Sections in this recording: 1970 on the Northern Coast The aftermaths of the events of 1970 The explosion, June 1976 1976: the aftermath The workers' voice Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workerslib...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 2 of 11, pages 15 to 29. Sections in this recording: The Party in turmoil Open Letter to the Party 1968: antisemitism 1968: the student protests Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of...

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 1 of 11, pages 1 to 14. Sections in this recording: After the War Stalinist Rule 1956, Poznań Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/s...

From the archives - "France 1968: When Ten Million Workers Took Capitalism By The Throat" by Sean Matgamna, written 1968, Republished 40 years later in May 2008, as part of Workers' Liberty 3/19: When the workers rise, part two See online: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2018-05-21/france-1968-when-ten-million-workers-took-capitalism-throat All audio online: https://workersliberty.org/audio A...

Catch up on a Workers Liberty online political education meet-up where Dan introduces the political tendency of Stalinism within the modern labour movement. "What is Stalinism?" is part of "The ABCs of Marxism" series. All AWL online meetings: https://www.workersliberty.org/c19-online All audio recordings of public meetings: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/public-meetings Have you expe...

The introductory lead off from the session, "Nationalism And The National Question", in the weekly online discussion programme of "Marxist ABCs". More online events: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online More recordings of public meetings: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/public-meetings Democracy is more than individual rights because people are more than individuals. They identify the...

The opening speeches and presentations from Workers' Liberty forum, "Fifty years of women's liberation": discussing the gains women have made over the last fifty years and the case for socialist feminism. More online meetings at: www.workersliberty.org/c19-online Jill: 00:10 Kelly: 29:10 Why socialist feminism?: https://workersliberty.org/why-soc-fem Women's Fightback #24: https://workersliberty.o...

Audio of the introductory speach only. "The fight for trans rights: past, present and future" was a discussion series for socialists and supporters of trans rights to learn about the history and contemporary movement for trans liberation. “Berlin’s Third Sex” was the penultimate session. Watch the final session at https://youtu.be/qpCCfNDARO4 or listen at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/fig...

A recounting of the Vestas wind turbine workers' dispute which culminated in the occupation of the factory on the Isle of Wight, and what it means for climate politics in the current conditions. Pamphlet about this battle: https://workersliberty.org/vestas-pamphlet Audio version of pamphlet: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/vestas

1919: strikes, struggles and soviets, a Workers' Liberty pamphlet, by Janine booth. Part 5 of 5 contents: If we must die, Claude McKay (poem) Triple Alliance: unused power Making history Other sections: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-1-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-2-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-3-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-...

1919: strikes, struggles and soviets, a Workers' Liberty pamphlet, by Janine booth. Part 4 of 5 contents: Purging the police Working women’s rights Throwing off the shackles of empire Divided by racism Other sections: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-1-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-2-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-3-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/worker...

1919: strikes, struggles and soviets, a Workers' Liberty pamphlet, by Janine booth. Part 3 of 5 contents: Germany: the revolution betrayed Hungary: 133 days of workers’ rule The Limerick Soviet Other sections: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-1-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-2-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-4-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-libert...

1919: strikes, struggles and soviets, a Workers' Liberty pamphlet, by Janine booth. Part 2 of 5 contents: Masterless men (poem, Janine Booth) The Great Belfast Strike Whose Peace? Hands Off Russia! Other sections: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-1-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-3-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-4-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-li...