Solidarity & More

An important text on what we mean by socialism and workers' rule. The following talk was delivered at the Friday Night Forum of the SWP in Los Angeles on January 16, 1953. It was the fifth in a series of lectures by Cannon on “America’s Road to Socialism”. Listen to recordings of other publications: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/pamphlets-publications-beyond Read it online: https://w...

1919: strikes, struggles and soviets, a Workers' Liberty pamphlet, by Janine Booth. Part 1 of 5 contents: Blurb etc Ready for rebellion For those who fight for labour, Siegfreid Sassoon (poem) Militarists and mutinies Revolt on the Clyde Other sections: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-2-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-3-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-...

Workers' Liberty Vol. 3, issue 68 Hear the lead article: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/morality-revolution-the-bolsheviks-and-us-12-lead-article Issue online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/morality Article(s) online: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-07/appendix-birmingham-pub-bombing-19...

Workers' Liberty Vol. 3, issue 68 Hear the appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/morality-revolution-the-bolsheviks-and-us-22-appendices Issue online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/morality Article online: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-07/morality-revolution-bolsheviks-and-us

Workers' Liberty vol. 3, issue 69 (Solidarity 528): When workers beat the fascists — how the left fought the antisemites at cable street Read it online, order a paper copy, download the pdf at https://workersliberty.org/cable-street All audio: workersliberty.org/audio Subscribe: workersliberty.org/sub

Introduction only - discussion, replies, disagreements were not recorded. Some on the left have explained recent government interventionism up to Corbyn losing the election, but winning the economic argument - that Keynesianism is back. This explanation does not add up. What is going on and should socialists be Keynesians anyway? Informal discussion and no reading required, but take a look at thes...

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. Lead article, Automation and the working class, by Martin Thomas. Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/automation-and-working-class See also: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-...

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. 2: The Future and Robots, by Charlie Applebaum. Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/future-and-robots 3: Hipster Reformism and the Technological Fix, by Bruce Robinson. Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-07-17/hipster-reformism-and-technological-fix See: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/...

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. 4th Article, Marx's telescope, by Martin Thomas. Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/marxs-telescope See: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-and-the-working-class-1-lead-article https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fi...

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. "The great foundation-stone of wealth" by Karl Marx, exctracts See: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch13.htm#p701 & https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch14.htm See also: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-and-the-working-class-1-lead-article https://soundcloud....

What is your employer and the government doing about Covid-19 and what can we do to make sure the crucial and informed decisions are taken? Recording from Class struggle environmentalism, a day of workshops and discussions organised by Workers' Liberty. Intro-only version here: soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/covid-19-intro-only Lead off and summation by Martin Thomas, plus contributions from vario...

"Class struggle environmentalism", with John Moloney, PCS assistant general secretary (p.c.) and Abel Harvie-Clark, youth climate striker, on where next for the climate strikes. https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/bob-carnegie-on-climate-struggles-in-australia was also part of the same session. 00:00 Abel 5:36 John See this follow up article by Abel https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-03-18/y...

An N-Power worker lead this workshop on this biggest threat to the planet. Reliance on fossil fuels must be stopped, but how do we fight the big powers which own and run these businesses? Are things like cuts to fossil fuel subsidies, or public investment in alternative energy resources enough? Or is working-class democratic control of the energy grid the only way to get effective change?

Bob Carnegie, Queensland socialist activist, describes how anti-coal mine ″Stop Adani” campaign split the Australian labour movement. Why? Where now?

Women's Fightback issue 24, part 2 of 2, pages 9 to 15. Online at: https://www.workersliberty.org/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-24-march-2020

Women's Fightback, issue 24, 8 March 2020. Part 1 of 2, pages 1 to 8. Articles include: Strength and audacity we have never before known As early as possible, as late as necessary Catholicism and women's rights RLB, abortion rights and disability On the social construction of gender Babies, brooders and the abolition of gender Sexist bastards Online: https://workersliberty.org/workers-liberty-maga...

'The mill owners told the workers to bow down to the steam idol or starve', a review of Andreas Malm's 'Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming', written for Solidarity June 2016, by Neil Laker. More, a paper version of the booklet, and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

This is the audio recording of our forum, on the 12th of July 2019, on Democracy and Revolution in Sudan with Namaa al-Mahdi and Stephen Wood. See this article https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-19/sudan-uprising-regroups Checkout our website for future events, articles, publications, other audio and video, to find out more and get involved: www.workersliberty.org "One cannot know for su...

What kind of left does Labour need? with Seema Syeda See this article https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-12/labour-after-peterborough Seema Syeda's book here https://www.amazon.co.uk/Creeping-Fascism-What-How-Fight/dp/0995535264 Our summer camp at workersliberty.org/camp

What does Weber, heralded as one of the "founders of socilogy", have to teach contemporary Marxists? Activist and academic Dan Davison-Vecchione gave a talk, follwed by discussion, at Ideas for Freedom 2019. Our summer camp: workersliberty.org/camp See also this article: https://newpol.org/issue_post/marx-and-weber-critics-capitalism/

In 1956 Hungarian workers launched a revolutionary uprising against Stalinism that saw them form workers' councils. Soviet tanks crushed the revolution. Could things have been different, and what do the events of 1956 tell us about what Stalinism represented? an Ideas for Freedom 2019 session with John Cunningham Reading list on the revolution: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-07-22/readi...

The Chinese state is currently engaged in the brutal repression and mass incarceration of the Uyghur people, a Muslim ethnic minority mainly concentrated in the Xinjiang province. This session, which includes a film showing, discusses that repression and what can be done to resist it. With Aziz Ilsa Elkun (Uyghur activist) See https://workersliberty.org/story/2018-09-11/brutal-crackdown-chinas-uyg...

What are the connections between the Brexit project and historic and contemporary British imperialism? Academics and activists Dr Cath Fletcher (University of Swansea, Workers' Liberty) and Prof. Danny Dorling (University of Oxford, author of "Rule Britannia: Brexit and the End of Empire) discuss the issues. Our pamphlets can be found https://workersliberty.org/pamphlets, and the pamphlet referenc...

Labour and antisemitism, at Ideas for Freedom 2019. Originally organised as a debate with Ken Livingstone, Martin Thomas presented the case against the form of "absolute anti-Zionism", which Workers' Liberty argues bleeds over into antisemitism; it is represented by Livingstone and is dominant on much of the left, and sees Zionism as an all-powerful conspiracy. Time was given in the session to any...

Arguing for Autistic Rights: the backlash against neurodiversity and how to overcome it: Judy Singer, author of 'Neurodiversity: the birth of an idea'; Janine Booth, author of 'Autism Equality in the Workplace'; and Fergus Murray, co-founder of Autistic Mutual Aid Society, Edinburgh. For a video, see https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-27/arguing-autistic-rights-backlash-against-neurodive...