Solidarity & More

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 organising.

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 be about snuffing out Ukraine as an independent nation full stop. This is a naked example of brutal imperialism. Socialists, the trade union movement and Democrats need to oppose this war and support the Ukrainian peoples right to self determination and self defence. We will also be discussing the practical way we can support the Ukrainian community here in Britain. https://workersliberty.org/ukraine This is the link for people to signup and keep in touch with Workers Liberty: http://www.workersliberty.org/signup Sotsialniy Rukh on fb https://www.facebook.com/social.ruh Taras Bilous' letter https://commons.com.ua/ru/letter-western-left-kyiv/ Денис Пілаш: Here is a list of different organizations and charities which work to help Ukrainians in their anti-imperial war against Russia: The Social Movement — The Social Movement is a left-wing public organization. The money donated to them will go to support refugees, civilians and also Ukrainian trade unions. Their requisites: For UAH 4246001000888754 Longo-Maï coop — this coop in Zakarpatia oblast is evacuating children from Vrubivka village in Luhansk oblast. They helped them for a long time and they even made a summer theater camp for them last year. Last week Vrubivka school was shelled by russian forces, so they are helping children to get to safety. They are ready to take in more refugees, considering the latest development in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict. Their requisites: For UAH 4441114451067639 (Кошан В’ячеслав Антонійович, Монобанк) For EUR: Beneficiary IBAN UA 20 322001 00000 2620 6306 3111 62 Account No 26206306311162 Receiver KOSHAN VIACHESLAV, 90440, Ukraine, reg. Zakarpatska, district. Khustskyi, to 01:25:13 Денис Пілаш: Khustskyi, town. Nyzhnie Selyshche, st. Tsentralna, build. 53 Account with Institution Bank JSC UNIVERSAL BANK City KYIV, UKRAINE Swift code UNJSUAUKXXX @solidarnistinua — this is a newly created anarchist mutual aid org. Their mission statement is following: "Hello! We are supporters of horizontal society, solidarity and cooperation from different cities of Ukraine. Today we have united in the volunteer project "Operation Solidarity" in order to jointly help all healthy forces of society to counteract imperialist aggression against our country. We plan to collect humanitarian aid and fundraising in favor of territorial defense fighters and in support of all grassroots initiatives that unite people in confronting a common threat. We also plan to help refugees, host social events and spread the practices of equal decision-making and direct democracy." Their requisites: UAH 5375 4141 1919 7571 EUR 5375 4199 0742 1968 USD 5375 4188 1104 6176 @solidarnistinua — their Telegram channel To donate to AWL https://www.workersliberty.org/donate Signup to keep in contact and find out what the AWL are doing http://www.workersliberty.org/signup Message to share from Labour Campaign for Free Movement in response to the situation - open the borders & welcome refugees https://www.labourfreemovement.org/russia-ukraine-welcome-refugees/ https://workersliberty.org/sub https://workersliberty.org/join-awl

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 modern Irish history. Before 1916, Connolly had almost three decades of activity behind him, as a socialist propagandist and a trade union organiser, in Scotland, Ireland and the United States. So who was Connolly and what were his political ideas? How did he come to be involved in the Rising, and what can socialists learn from his life, writings and political activity? Micheál MacEoin, author of a forthcoming book on Connolly, discussed these questions and more at a Workers' Liberty public meeting: this is the audio recording of the intro speech.

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 debate Sunday 16 May 2021 between Red Flag and Workers' Liberty, including only contributions from those who gave their permission to have them published.

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.workersliberty.org/tubeworker Off the rails: https://workersliberty.org/rails

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-pamphlet Listen to a talk on the topic, from a decade later: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/the-vestas-wind-turbine-factory-occupation This audio was released for a reading group on the topic. More: https://www.facebook.com/events/995844177636361

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 networks such as the UK Student climate network, and workplace organisations popping up in various sectors. How do we cohere these groups and others to build a movement capable of stopping climate chaos?

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://sci-hub.mksa.top/10.1080/10455752.2019.1638612 More readings at https://workersliberty.org/readings-degrowth

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://youtu.be/QneXgpw_A-U

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 the setbacks, learn lessons, and sketch a way to renewed efforts. More online, or buy paper copies: https://workersliberty.org/corbynism Chapters: 20. Corbyning Alone? 21. Protesting too much? 22. Manifestos, policies, and “real change” 23. Globalisation Listen to the other parts: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbyn-1-intro https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-2-ch8-p15 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-3-ch13-p25 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-4-ch16-p34 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-5-ch20-p45

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 the setbacks, learn lessons, and sketch a way to renewed efforts. More online, or buy paper copies: https://workersliberty.org/corbynism Chapters: 16. Brexit 17. Antisemitism 18. April 2016 and Ken Livingstone 19. Curbs on debate, curbs on development Listen to the other parts: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbyn-1-intro https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-2-ch8-p15 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-3-ch13-p25 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-4-ch16-p34 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-5-ch20-p45

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 the setbacks, learn lessons, and sketch a way to renewed efforts. More online, or buy paper copies: https://workersliberty.org/corbynism Chapters: 13. Momentum 14. The Momentum coup of January 2017 15. The pre-2015 Labour left Listen to the other parts: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbyn-1-intro https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-2-ch8-p15 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-3-ch13-p25 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-4-ch16-p34 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-5-ch20-p45

Corbynism: What Went Wrong? Part 2 of 5, chapters 8-12, pages 15-24. 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 the setbacks, learn lessons, and sketch a way to renewed efforts. More online, or buy paper copies: https://workersliberty.org/corbynism Chapters: 8. Corbynism on the streets. Or not? 9. Labour and young people in the Corbyn period 10. The Corbyn leadership, Momentum, youth, and activism 11. Corbyn and socialism 12. “False brothers” Listen to the other parts: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbyn-1-intro https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-2-ch8-p15 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-3-ch13-p25 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-4-ch16-p34 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-5-ch20-p45

Corbynism: What Went Wrong? Part 1 of 5, chapters 1-7, pages 1-14. 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 the setbacks, learn lessons, and sketch a way to renewed efforts. More online, or buy paper copies: https://workersliberty.org/corbynism Chapters: 1. Introduction 2. The real lost promise 3. How Corbyn won in 2015 4. How Corbyn held on in 2015-16 5. The June 2017 general election 6. The Leader’s Office 7. The unions in the Corbyn period Listen to the other parts: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbyn-1-intro https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-2-ch8-p15 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-3-ch13-p25 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-4-ch16-p34 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/corbynism-5-ch20-p45

A discussion of what modern slavery is and how it is used by conservative (and other) politicians to further and justify their anti-migrant policies Video: https://youtu.be/uVabDXy6Qyg

Women's Fightback Issue 26, Autumn/Winter 2021. Full contents, buy a paper copy, or download the PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wf26

Women's Fightback Issue 26, Autumn/Winter 2021. Full contents, buy a paper copy, or download the PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wf26

Women's Fightback Issue 26, Autumn/Winter 2021. Full contents, buy a paper copy, or download the PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wf26

Women's Fightback Issue 26, Autumn/Winter 2021. Full contents, buy a paper copy, or download the PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wf26

Climate resistance must be built from below: 'The transition has hardly begun...', review of Simon Pirani's 'Burning Up', 2018, by Neil Laker. More, a paper version of the For Workers' Climate Action booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

"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 environmental column in Solidarity, and hundreds of climate articles on our website. There are countless books we might recommend, beyond those reviewed and mentioned so far. But there are a few notable areas which we wanted to cover in this pamphlet, but couldn’t because of space. What is the ruling class likely to do in response to climate change, in the coming decades? We read and discussed a book, Climate Leviathan, that we were heavily critical of, but which is nonetheless thought provoking. See two reviews: “Against Leviathan, a workers’ plan” bit.ly/against-leviathan and “Four climate futures” bit.ly/4-climate-f How may global warming play out? David Wallace-Wells’ The Uninhabitable Earth attempts to sketch answers. “Climate disaster is already with us” is a review of this book. There have been some critical replies, and a debate, following this. The interlocutors both agree the book is worth reading. See the articles: bit.ly/w-wells Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power and the Roots of Global Warming by Andreas Malm attempts to chart the rise of steam power and its links to the development of capitalism. We are critical of much of his politics. See workersliberty.org/malm-debate for several differing reviews on Malm’s writings, a debate, plus a critical study guide. We read and discussed several different readings on “Degrowth” from a Marxist perspective. Readings and videos at workersliberty.org/readings-degrowth *Stay updated* The climate, and related science, politics, and activism are constantly changing. This pamphlet will start going out of date as soon as we publish it. We work to make that happen: to build a climate movement to move us onto a different track. Here are some ways to keep up to date: • Our website, workersliberty.org • Articles at workersliberty.org/climate-change • Subscribe to receive our weekly newspaper Solidarity, and support our work, for only £5 per month, at workersliberty.org/sub • Events, including our socialist environmental study group, at workersliberty.org/events • Contact us, and get more involved. Call 020 7394 8923, email [email protected] or find us on facebook, twitter, or instagram: @workersliberty

Environmentalists in Singapore, on May Day. Sara Lee wrote this, May 2021 Building workers’ action at climate strikes. From articles in September 2019 Both For Workers’ Climate Action (4th Ed.). More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Zack Muddle wrote this for Solidarity 604, September 2021. More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition, WCA), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Towards an independent working-class climate movement, published in the American socialist journal New Politics, summer 2011, by Daniel Randall and Paul Hampton More, a paper version of the WCA booklet (4th ed.), and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Stop the fossil fuel reboot! Adapted from Solidarity 610’s editorial, October 2021 Plus cover info More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

For a Socialist Green New Deal: We promoted a model motion “Climate emergency — For a Socialist Green New Deal” in the run up to Labour conference 2019, and got much of it passed. This document documents that fight, and beyond. What is socialism?: Mohan Sen wrote this for Solidarity 601, July 2021. It accompanies the articles “Socialism vs capitalism” bit.ly/soc-v-cap and “Get socialists organised!” bit.ly/get-so More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Capital, not population, is the culprit — A review of "David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet" documentary, by Zack Muddle, in Solidarity 580-581, February 2021 More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Marx, ecology, and science — Review of Kohei Saito’s “Marx’s Ecology”. More, a paper version of the For Workers' Climate Action booklet, and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Adapted from Solidarity 561, September 2020 More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Zack Muddle wrote this article in Solidarity 579, January 2021, during the UK’s third Covid-19 lockdown More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

The shop stewards who represent the future, a review of 'Workers and Trade Unions for Climate Solidarity' by Paul Hampton, 2015, by Martin Thomas. More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Workers' Action for Climate Justice, written for the Workers' Liberty bulletin at Ende Gelande August 2017, by Mike Zubrowski More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Socialist politics and climate change: an introduction to the 2018 edition of this pamphlet, by Neil Laker More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Just after COP26 finished, Zack Muddle wrote this article in two parts for Solidarity 614-615, November 2021 More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition, WCA), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Two articles from the climate pamphlet: The politics of carbon drawdown — Todd Hamer reviews "Under a White Sky" by Elizabeth Kolbert and "After Geoengineering" by Holly Jean Buck, Solidarity 599, June 2021 Carbon capture and storage? Not a help yet — Zack Muddle wrote this article for Solidarity 578, January 2021 More, a paper version of the booklet For Workers' Climate Action (4th edition), and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

The two articles which became the WL conference document. They received slight amendments. For the final version as passed see https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-21/fighting-climate-crises-awl-conference-document-201920 Workers’ Liberty conference document, passed January 2020. We submit, discuss, and debate documents and amendments to those documents at our annual all-member conferences. These documents shape and clarify our activism and political approach in the following period; reflecting on that preceding. “Fighting climate crises” was written in 2019’s wave of climate activism — Youth strikes, XR, Reclaim the Power, Labour for a Green New Deal, and more — and before the general election which made us postpone our conference slightly. We passed it just before Covid-19 became a significant force in society. It is a wide-ranging document on the activist strategy and political perspectives needed in the fight against climate change. (See also features throughout this pamphlet on organising in and around climate strikes, XR, LGND/Labour.) More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Camila Bassi delivered this talk at the AWL online meeting on 30 August 2020. For all AWL online meetings go to: https://workersliberty.org/meetings A similar article is For Workers’ Climate Action (4th Ed.), part 7. More, a paper version of the booklet, and a contents list, at workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet The outbreak of SARS Coronovirus 2 or COVID-19 proceeds an escalation of recent epidemics and proto-pandemics: notably, H5N1 or Avian influenza, SARS, MERS, Swine flu, Ebola, and Zika. Camila tells the story of HIV/AIDS and SARS to explore the nexus between capitalist political economy, nature, and emergent infectious diseases; concluding that, without radical change to how we organise and run our world, our future will be locked into this deadly trajectory. For a transcript of the talk and the full set of references, please see Camila's blog here: https://anaemiconabike.com/2020/08/19/on-global-capital-not-abiding-limits-and-a-history-of-pandemics/ Video: https://youtu.be/zSSbkGbBCpA The quote during the pause is: “PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Jan 26 – An American‐owned company here is buying blood plasma from impoverished Haitians who need the money and exporting 5,000 to 6,000 liters of it every month to the United States. […] Hemo Caribbean is owned by Joseph B. Gorinstein, stockbroker with interests in New York and Miami. He has a 10‐year contract with the Haitian Government that was negotiated with President Francois Duvalier, who died last April. Werner H. Thill, the company’s technical director, said that the Haitian Government received no money from Hemo Caribbean. Reliable sources here say that the principal agent between the Government and Hemo Caribbean was Luckner Cambronne, the Minister of Interior and National Defense, who is said to be one of the most influential persons here. […] Mr. Thill says that applicants are rejected if they are known to have hepatitis, but he adds that he is not especially concerned about those who may slip through the screening process with venereal disease or malaria. The freezing process used on the plasma “kills those bacteria,” he says. The Haitians, many in rags and without shoes, crowd into Hemo Caribbean six days week from 6:30 A.M. to 10 P.M. They spend about an hour and a half to two hours in screening and actually giving blood. […] The plasma is frozen and shipped to the United States by Air Haiti, Mr. Cambronne’s airline.” The New York Times, January 1972

Climate change and extreme energy, document passed by Workers' Liberty conference, October 2013 More, a paper version of the booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

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 union might look like. Let's call it the Fantasy Union of Rail and Transport Workers (FURT). Video: https://youtu.be/38zbtZkvoMQ Some of the good things about this fantasy union could be put in place by changes in rules and ways of organising; others by electing better officials and leaders. But others need changes in the culture of the union and a big increase in workers' confidence. This description of our fantasy union is a manifesto for change in our unions, but it is also a statement of how we aspire to work, and the principles we try to uphold, as union activists. It is about the present as well as the future. By "Off The Rails" blog: https://workersliberty.org/OTR/fantasy

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-winterspring-2021

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' Liberty are running a meeting on the story of the Grunwick strike by mainly women, Asian, migrant workers - a pivotal working-class battle in the 1970s: https://facebook.com/events/477530426614635 And you can read or buy the new edition of our Socialist Feminist paper Women's Fightback here: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-25-winterspring-2021 Read about the socialist and labour movement origins of the International Women's Day idea: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-03-10/socialist-history-international-womens-day See our youtube playlist on Socialist Feminism for more! #InternationalWorkingWomensDay #SocialistFeminism Reposted with thanks from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=28ui8JZjdWQ . Created originally for Lewisham's IWD celebrations.

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.workersliberty.org/meetings Tubeworker: https://workersliberty.org/tubeworker Off The Rails: https://workersliberty.org/rails All audio: https://workersliberty.org/rails

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 battles in local government going back to the 1970s, and how we can apply lessons learned from those struggles today. From a meeting of the same name, on 4 October. All meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings Video on several platforms: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-11-25/video-fighting-council-cuts The referenced other talk, more focussed on Covid-19: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/josh-lovell-covid-19-and-fighting-council-cuts?in=workers-liberty/sets/public-meetings

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://workersliberty.org/audio Video of this meeting: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-11-21/video-after-us-election-which-way-left-ruth-cashman-robert-cuffy-and-tom-harrison A discussion on the results of the US election and tasks facing class struggle socialists. Trump and the Republican Party continue to resist the result of the US election; what impact will they have? We heard about what the left and social movement activists are doing to defend US democracy and develop class struggle responses to the pandemic, jobs and social crisis. What does the left say about Biden, as the "lesser evil" in the election. What are the longer-term tasks and prospects for the left?

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 documentary and subsequent legal wranglings, have kept the issue of antisemitism in the Labour Party in the news and political discussion. But the “debates” so far have tended to generate more heat than light, by keeping the focus on the factional implications rather than the underlying political issues. This discussion seeks to get back to the fundamental questions: what does antisemitism on the left consist of, where does it come from, and how can it be confronted? More on this topic: https://workersliberty.org/left-as See more videos on this and related topics: https://www.youtube.com/c/WorkersLibertyUK **Reading list** Steve Cohen – That's Funny, You Don't Look Antisemitic https://libcom.org/files/thats_funny.pdf Robert Fine and Philip Spencer – Antisemitism and the Left http://www.manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526104977 Moishe Postone - “Zionism, Antisemitism, and the Left” https://www.workersliberty.org/files/100205postone.pdf Stan Crooke – “The Stalinist Roots of Left Antisemitism” https://www.workersliberty.org/files/wl10stalinismantisemitism.pdf Isabella Tabarovsky - “Soviet anti-Zionism and contemporary left antisemitism” https://fathomjournal.org/soviet-anti-zionism-and-contemporary-left-antisemitism Workers' Liberty - “The Slansky Trial: Stalinism, antisemitism and conspiracy theories” https://www.workersliberty.org/slansky-trial-stalinism-anti-semitism-and-conspiracy-theories-workers-liberty-336 Dale Street - “Three decades of Socialist Worker on antisemitism” https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-27/three-decades-socialist-worker-antisemitism John O'Mahony - “The 1980s left and antisemitism” https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2018-06-01/1980s-and-left-antisemitism Satnam Virdee - “Socialist antisemitism and its discontents in England, 1884-98” https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/0031322X.2017.1335029 Brendan McGeever – Antisemitism and the Russian Revolution https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/antisemitism-and-the-russian-revolution/AF5AE3BB29CB5A7909C75036694CDADE April Rosenblum - The Past Didn’t Go Anywhere https://www.aprilrosenblum.com/thepast Spencer Sunshine - “Looking At Left Antisemitism” http://transformativestudies.org/wp-content/uploads/Spencer-Sunshine.pdf