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Why not a united Ireland? Ireland, Brexit, and Partition, 100 years after the declaration of the Irish Republic by Dail Eireann. Part 5 of 5: The mind of Irish socialists. This Workers’ Liberty pull-out discusses the interaction of Brexit with the partition of Ireland. It reviews the basic and long-standing arguments why Northern Ireland, as it stands, is not a viable democratic political unit. It surveys the historic inadequacies of the often-heroic Irish Republican tradition in dealing with the issue of Partition, and the political logic of the recurrent transitions of Republican currents, once revolutionary by their own lights, into conventional bourgeois politics. The articles are all by Sean Matgamna. All sections of this pull-out: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/why-not-a-united-ireland Read online, download PDF, subscribe: https://www.workersliberty.org/wl-3-66 All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

A panel debate with speakers: Ruth Cashman from Workers' Liberty, Neil Faulkner from Mutiny, and Kady Tait from Red Flag. Introduction and summation speeches only. See upcoming debates from Workers' Liberty: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online As protests against police brutality and racism continue, alongside struggles over the government's mishandling of the pandemic, and with massive job cuts set to follow, and the climate crises, what should class-struggle socialists say and do? How can we revive workplace organisation and militancy, and confront the global wave of right-wing nationalism of which Trump, Johnson, Bolsonaro, Modi, Netanyahu, and others are a part? Where next for the left? This panel brings together speakers from three different revolutionary socialist groups to discuss the issues, with plenty of time for questions and discussion from the floor. Write up of the debate: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-07-13/whats-way-forward-revolutionary-left Video: https://youtu.be/oVd0iFA2_tw Workers' Liberty: https://workersliberty.org/ Mutiny: https://www.timetomutiny.org/ Red Flag: https://www.redflagonline.org

PJ aka the Repeat Beat Poet, is a hip hop and spoken word artist, and an activist. He spoke to Janine Booth, a trade unionist, Workers' Liberty activist, and poet about George Floyd Protest, police, fighting racism, and more. Video: https://youtu.be/eN96j9nB2sg See https://www.facebook.com/repeatbeatpoet/ for PJ's page and https://www.facebook.com/JanineBoothTheBigJ for Janine's. More from Workers' Liberty at https://workersliberty.org **Questions asked** 1. What are your views on the recent events in the USA? The killings of George Floyd and Tony McDade, the protests, the police clampdown? 2. What are your views on the protests? 3. How do you respond to people who say they support peaceful protests but condemn ‘rioting’? 4. How similar or different do you think policing of BAME communities is between the USA and the UK? Why? 5. What specific demands do you think will be effective against police brutality? People have been variously calling for: defund the police; disarm the police; scrap the police; make the police accountable to elected scrutiny committees; sack all cops and make them reapply for their jobs; reorient the police towards helping vulnerable people and away from social control? Do you agree with these? Which do you prefer? Are there others that you would advocate? 6. As a spoken word artist, how have you used this medium to fight racism? What are its strengths and its limits in the anti-racist struggle? 7. Which other BAME spoken word artists (or writers or musicians) would you recommend people listen to/read? 8. To what extent do you think police brutality is an issue of class? 9. How well do you think the left and the labour movement involve BAME people and fight against racism? What more could it do? 10. How important is it for us to debate and educate ourselves about these issues? Are there any subjects or resources that you would recommend? **Poets, musicians, artists mentioned:** Solomon O.B. Aliyha Hasinah Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan George the Poet Kojey Radical Liv Winter Lowkey Boots Riley Nina Simone **Books/authors mentioned:** bell hooks Angela Davis The End of Policing by Alex Vitale (https://www.versobooks.com/books/2426-the-end-of-policing free ebook) Staying Power by Peter Fryer The State of Africa by Martin Meredith Back to Black: Retelling Black Radicalism for the 21st Century by Kehinde Andrews

"The politics of identity", an opening speech by Cathy Nugent, part of the "ABCs of Marxism" series of meetings. For future online meetings see: https://www.workersliberty.org/c19-online Video: https://youtu.be/vx7jjLC0Fq4 Identity politics is an approach which prioritises social and cultural identities. This is usually, but increasingly not always, to advance the interests of marginalised and oppressed people. The approach has been criticised as divisive. But what is “identity”? How do we assess criticisms of identity politics and the role social media plays in promoting those politics? What alternative approaches are there for fighting social oppression? Is a universalist socialist politics adequate? Relevant articles: • https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-10-18/experience-and-revolutionary-politics • https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2013/04/10/marxists-oppression • https://www.workersliberty.org/index.php/story/2020-02-05/morning-stars-identity-politics

Even the Prison Officers Association say that the majority of prisoners should not be locked up in prison. But what would calling for the abolition of prisons mean now? What does justice mean for us now and what would it mean in the socialist future? "Do we need prisons?" introductory speech by Anita Downs in "The state, crime, prisons, and police" series of meetings. All meetings coming up at: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online . Video: ***Notes from meetings below*** **Key facts** • 79,645 people in prison in the UK • 69% of these have not committed any violent crimes • 27% are BAME (13% in UK population) • 5% are women. 89% of women have not committed any violent crimes • Percentage reporting drug addiction rose 8.4% from 2013/14 to 15% in 2018/2019 (effect of spice) • Mental health – 26% women & 16% men had mental health treatment in the year before prison • 87 suicides in 2019 • 1 in 3 have learning disability or learning difficulty • 62% have reading age of 11 or lower (compared to 15% in population) • 1 in 7 homeless at release (37% of women) • Only 17% in PAYE job a year after release • The number of detained children has decreased, but less so among BAME children. 50% of detained children are BAME • Short sentences of 6 months or less are less effective in reducing reoffending than community sentence. Yet number of community sentences has fallen by half in a decade • 44% leaving prison reoffend within a year **Trends:** • Self harm, violence to each other and staff are all at record high levels. • Prison population was rising until last two years • Overall length of sentences increased • Staffing and budget reduced 2010 – 2015 (POs reduced by 26%) • Inspectors issued ‘urgent’ notifications for many prisons – uninhabitable, inmates in cells for long periods due to lack of staff. Cuts & privatisation • Recruitment from 2016 – POs now 10% down compared to 2010 • No relationship between prison numbers and crime figures **Covid in prisons:** • April – up to 4000 planned to be released due to Covid (vulnerable / pregnant • Less than 100 actually released due to poorly understood plans (up to end of May) • Single cell occupancy would require release of 10,000 – 15,000 • Opted for restrictions rather than release (stopping visits, association) • Prisoners complain of lack of PPE for officers **History:** • Before 1700s – death penalty, public humiliation, corporal punishment, transportation. Prison while awaiting trial. 1777 John Howard – debtors & murderers, women, children, men, should be separated! • 1800s – hard labour, religious instruction. (last public execution 1868)(Hulks ended 1857) • 1877 – 1907 - idea of reform and training, • Early 1900s Churchill, prisoner in Boer war 1899 – reforms – shorter sentences, less harsh • 1948 – Abolished penal servitude and flogging • 1965 – Abolition of death sentence • 1990 – ‘Prison works’ more punitive approach – subsequent Labour and Tory governments – increased prison population, privatisation • 1990 – Strangeways riot Woolfe report (cells should have toilets!!) • Incentives and Earned Rewards Scheme – slavery? **References:** • http://www.prisonreformtrust.org.uk/Portals/0/Documents/Bromley%20Briefings/Prison%20the%20facts%20Summer%202019.pdf • https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-49324718 • https://www.crimeandjustice.org.uk/sites/crimeandjustice.org.uk/files/09627250802476668.pdf • https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2010/08/10/prisons-tool-capital • Prison Reform Trust • Howard League for Penal Reform

Mark Osborn and Sacha Ismail discuss the history of the Civil War, British workers' mobilisation and the lessons for the internationalist, anti-racist left of today. Introductory speeches from a meeting of the same name. Upcoming meetings: https://www.workersliberty.org/c19-online . All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio **Timeline** 1850s US politics convulsed by issue of slavery; breakdown of old party political system, rise of Republicans; armed clashes over whether Kansas will be slave or free state 1859 Abolitionist John Brown attempts to lead slave uprising at Harpers Ferry, Virginia 1860 November: Republican Abraham Lincoln elected President December: South Carolina secedes from US 1861 Six other Southern slave states secede, Confederate States of America formed, soon grows to eleven states April: Civil War begins, slaves start to flee to US army August: US Congress passes first anti-slavery war measures November-December: Trent crisis seems to threaten US-British war December: British workers’ meetings in support of US begin 1862 Summer: Congress, led by Radical Republicans, pushes US policy in more radical anti-slavery direction Second half of year: Wave of workers’ meetings in Lancashire 22 September: Lincoln issues Emancipation Proclamation promising to free slaves in Confederate states November: Recruitment of black soldiers begins tentatively 31 December: Great meeting at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, meetings in London 1863 1 January: Emancipation Proclamation comes into effect, recruitment of black soldiers massively accelerates 26 March: “Monster” workers’ meeting at St James’ Hall, London 1864 September: Foundation of International Working Men’s Association November: Lincoln re-elected 1865 April-June: Confederacy surrenders 14 April: Lincoln assassinated by Confederate sympathiser December: Thirteenth Amendment to US Constitution ratified, slavery abolished throughout US 1867 “Radical Reconstruction” begins in US, enfranchising ex-slaves; Reform Act enfranchises over a million British workers **Recommendations, referenced by the speakers** Pamphlet: https://www.workersliberty.org/node/25435 Article: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/workers-against-slavery-us-civil-war-first-international-and-british-working-class Pull-out: https://www.workersliberty.org/index.php/revolution-black-liberation-workers-liberty-342 Article: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-12-03/trump-blocked-putting-harriet-tubman-20-note-why "Beyond Equality" by David Montgomery Glory (1989 film) Sacha mentioned "Forced Into Glory" by Lerone Bennett Junior, which gives the case against Lincoln, but he thinks it is one-sided **Description** The American Civil War of 1861-5 was the most important event in US history, and one of the most important in world history. The victory of the North liberated four million black slaves and abolished slavery, although the movement it unleashed did not defeat racism. In Britain, despite hardship caused by the war, the working class rallied to Lincoln and abolition, and Karl Marx wrote for a New York paper about the pro-North mobilisations in London and the textile towns of northern England. These mobilisations helped pave the way for a new growth of the British labour movement and for the emergence of the International Working Men's Association (the First International).

“Left Unity: is Momentum fit for purpose?” introductory speech by Ruth Cashman, trade unionist and Labour Party activist, and Momentum NCG candidate. Future meetings: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Video: https://youtu.be/dil6nKoHSYI See https://www.facebook.com/RuthCashmanforMomentumNCG Meeting hosted by Lewisham and Sheffield Workers' Liberty. Mentioned articles in discussion: https://theclarionmag.org/2020/06/02/forward-momentum-drops-democratically-agreed-left-policies https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-04-25/anti-trans-feminists-blinkered-tories

Janine Booth interviews musician Rhoda Dakar, who talks about Two-Tone, policing, the centrality of class and much much more! Rhoda Dakar was in The Bodysnatchers and The Special AKA, and performed in "Free Nelson Mandela" Rhoda Dakar's latest single: https://orcd.co/standtogether Workers' Liberty anti-racist resources: https://www.workersliberty.org/anti-racist-resources Rhoda's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-463087528 The Dub Pistols: https://soundcloud.com/dubpistols The Special AKA: https://soundcloud.com/the-special-aka Video version of this audio: https://youtu.be/L2zRPf-YvPg

The state has undergone a lot of change in the last 100 years and since the partial or full lock down in many countries driven by the spread of Covid-19, we have seen an increase in its powers both in Britain and internationally. What has neoliberalism meant for the role of the state? Are we now more prepared for greater state intervention in the economy and into our lives? And how should we think about the state in the context of the Black Lives Matter movement? Intro to "The state and the current crisis" by Kate, part 5 of 5 in the series of meetings "The state, crime, prisons and the police". Upcoming meetings and more: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Other sections https://workersliberty.org/audio#forums Video of this talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RM5-VBa5gMY&list=PL6axvxELjd0hETzHJtyEWU8oREbGFw6fh&index=2

How did the Corbyn surge of the last few years end up with Sir Kier Starmer as Labour Leader? And what should socialists be doing within Labour now? Duncan, an education worker from South London introduces the situation at a discussion group in April 2020. Upcoming meetings and more at https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Video: https://youtu.be/gDV92V1NpHs

Josh Lovell, a Hertfordshire Labour County Councillor, speaking in late May 2020 about the situation of Local Government finance, in the context of Covid-19 and austerity that has now been hammering council budgets for now over a decade; and why the Labour movement must fight the council cuts. A campaign Josh helped initiate: https://fightcouncilcuts.carrd.co/# — please get involved! Josh's 'top level' take on what we should be minimally advocating: https://momentuminternationalists.org/2020/05/11/labour-councils-and-cuts-what-should-momentum-do/ Guardian article detailing some of the stats Josh outlines: https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/may/14/councils-in-england-fear-they-will-have-to-make-cuts-of-20 Stevenage situation: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-05-26/fight-coming-council-cuts Photo: CC BY 2.0 https://www.flickr.com/photos/matt-dinnery/5168809160/

How do we build a militant industrial union, a union which can fight for all education workers during and beyond the Covid-19 crisis? What are the lessons from industrial unions of the past? How should our union respond to government's handling of the crisis? School workers and NEU members from Workers' Liberty host a meeting to discuss the issues. Introductory and concluding speeches in a meeting on this topic from Patrick Murphy, NEU National Executive (personal capacity), and Daniel Randall, RMT activist. Upcoming meetings and more: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Get in contact to be kept in the loop with AWL school workers and beyond: https://workersliberty.org/contact Labour Days podcast on a similar issue: https://soundcloud.com/labour-days/ep-4-industrial-unionism

Lois Weiner on "Where now for the US left?", during the movement against police brutality, racism, and more, sparked by the murder of George Floyd; in Covid-19 crisis; and in the wake of Sanders' withdrawal from the Democratic Party primaries in lieu of Biden; and more. Introductory speach from a Workers' Liberty meeting of the same name. Upcoming meetings at: https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Video: https://youtu.be/0yAqYrAKDu4 All audio: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/ Lois Weiner is a US socialist activist, teacher trade unionist, and member of the editorial board of the socialist journal New Politics. **Questions from the floor** The following questions (abridged) were asked from the floor, as a prompt for Lois Weiners' introductory speech: - Are there any circumstances in which the left might support Biden? - Is the left or labour movement in any position to offer ideas or leadership to the Black Lives Matter/George Floyd movement against police brutality? - In that movement, what is the likelihood and what are the implications for the left of the police response esscalating even further, or of far-right provocateurs setting off a powder-keg? **Links referenced** Video on twitter: https://twitter.com/Brittm_tv/status/1266497944796225538 Mlitarization of police: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/obama-police-militarization_n_3566478 About the "dirty break" and DSA: https://newpol.org/wading-through-contradictions/ New Politics journal: https://newpol.org **Original description** After Sanders, where now for the US left? Can the US socialist movement be renewed? After Bernie Sanders's withdrawal from the Democratic presidential primary, can the energy of his movement be developed to build towards a renewed socialist movement in the USA? What role might the Green Party presidential challenge of veteran socialist Howie Hawkins play? And how have US workers and their unions been responding to bosses' attacks during the coronavirus pandemic?

2020 will see — for the first time! — a significant reduction in global CO2 emissions. Opening speeches by two socialist environmentalist activists, in Workers' Liberty, from the "Climate change and coronavirus" meeting. Upcoming meetings all at https://workersliberty.org/c19-online . Video of these speeches: https://youtu.be/RYX9xrxt8WI The Coronavirus crisis has also seen workers and governments taking collective action that place social good above private profits. There have even been examples of workers developing plans to use their skills and the machinery at work to produce socially useful products. A return to "normality" means a return to a world where human activity is directed solely for the creation of private profit at the expense of humanity and our future. Prior to the lockdown we were heading blindly and at accelerating speed towards civilisational collapse. What are the prospects now for a workers' led just transition to a world that is run in the interests of people and planet?

"Crime and policing" is session 2 in a 5 part series of meetings "The state, crime, prisons and the police". This is a recording of the introduction given by a Workers' Liberty activist. • For upcoming meetings, see https://workersliberty.org/c19-online • Part 1: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/what-is-the-state-1-of-5 • Listen, download, subscribe to Workers' Liberty audio at: https://workersliberty.org/audio The Labour party went into the 2019 election calling for police increases larger than the Tories. So can a left-wing government or even socialist government have the police working in our interests? Who are the people who suffer most at the hands of the police? Working class communities find themselves overwhelmingly the victims of crime, and yet the police often ignore anti social behaviour and crime in these same places. What should socialists say about the cops?

"What is the state?" an introduction by Matt Cooper. This is part of "The ABCs of Marxism" series of meetings, and also session 1 of 5 in "The state, crime, prisons and the police" series of meetings. Upcoming meetings in both series and beyond can be found at https://workersliberty.org/c19-online Part 2: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/crime-and-policing-2-of-5 Listen, download, subscribe to Workers' Liberty audio at: https://workersliberty.org/audio "'Theoretically,' there is no denying that the state is the organ of class domination, or that class antagonisms are irreconcilable. But what is forgotten or glossed over is this: if the state is the product of the irreconcilable character of class antagonisms, if it is a force standing above society and 'increasingly separating itself from it,' then it is clear that the liberation of the oppressed class is impossible not only without a violent revolution, but also without the destruction of the apparatus of state power, which was created by the ruling class and in which this 'separation' is embodied." Lenin one of the leaders of the Russian Revolution wrote this in The State and Revolution in 1917. Is that the only or even final word on what the state is?

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 to kill Tsar Nicholas III - Tsarist autocracy 1880s Plekhanov founding Social Democracy for Russia Plekhanov vs. populism 1890s Class struggle in Russia Lenin joins Marxist group Russian Social Democratic Labour Party formed 1898 1902 What Is To Be Done? Written in preparation for 2nd Congress of RSDLP - another attempt to unify various Social Democratic groups in Russia 1903 2nd Congress **Reading** What they did to What is To Be Done, by Hal Draper: https://www.marxists.org/archive/draper/1990/myth/myth.htm All reading and a recording of the meeting for this and other sessions in the ABCs of Marxism series will be collated here: https://www.workersliberty.org/abcs-marxism Some more reading on Lenin on the Workers Liberty website at https://www.workersliberty.org/marxists/vladimir-lenin **Description** Lenin wrote that it was often the fate of revolutionaries that after their deaths their names were made into legends to console the oppressed, while their ideas — their real politics, what they had stood for in life — were thrown out and replaced by something else. Something very like that happened to Lenin himself. Stalinists, who lyingly call themselves Leninists, radically cut away what Lenin had really stood for and adopted anti-working-class policies — the very opposite of those which Lenin spent his life fighting for. Then after the fall of USSR , Lenin, who spent his last years fighting incipient Stalinism, is scapegoated for the discredited despotic system which rose up on the defeat of Lenin's last struggle, continued after Lenin's death by Trotsky and others. We discuss the real history of Lenin and what he stood for.

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 ideas - The growth in right-wing popularlist ideas These movements feed on despair and demoralism resulting from the failures of labour movements to mobilise their tremendous potential power in the workplaceand fightback against austerity. The coming century will see tremendous upheavals. The horrors of climate change will generate mass migration on an unprecedented scale and social emergencies that will shake our society. In the decades to come, we need a labour movement that responds to crises with the politics of solidarity, compassion, and rationality.

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-manifesto-by-karl-marx-and-friendrich-engels/ Study guide: https://www.workersliberty.org/files/Communist-manifesto-study-guide.pdf All audio: www.workersliberty.org/audio

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: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpCCfNDARO4 For more online events by Workers' Liberty, see https://workersliberty.org/c19-online In both the Labour Party and the trade unions, transphobia is prominent. Why is this and what can we as Socialists do about it?

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 a translation of our Open Letter to Scargill from Socialist Organiser 200, 11 October. See scans of it in the paper book. 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/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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 book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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/solidarnosc All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio All tracks of this book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11 Appendices: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

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 Audio of other such publications (beyond Solidarity, our weekly newspaper): https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/pamphlets-publications-beyond

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 experienced Stalinism in the British labour movement? Let us know in the comments. Further reading: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-02-05/it-or-not-stalinism-still-live-force https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/why-stalin-needs-slaves-forced-labor-under-bureaucratic-collectivism-1947

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 themselves as part of a community and, in the modern world, as part of a nation. From this reality stems the idea of "the right of nations to self determination". But nations also conquer and oppress other nations. And borders divide nations and peoples. Ultimately socialists want to abolish national divisions. Discussing how the revolutionary Marxist tradition has approached the national question. Reading • Basic issues: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2011/07/14/socialists-and-national-question Further reading: • 1920 Communist International Theses on the national question: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/communist-international-1920-theses-national-and-colonial-question • The case of Catalonia: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-10-23/free-catalan-political-prisoners • Civil ware in ex-Yugoslavia https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-05/break-yugoslavia • Populism (nationalism's twin) https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-11-20/populism-dead-end-left Much more reading https://www.workersliberty.org/nationalism-and-national-question

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.org/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-24-march-2020 One woman has a good idea, she shares it, many people laugh, others smile politely, as two women decide to make it happen. So the first National Women’s Liberation Conference in the UK takes place in Oxford, in 1970. Initially to discuss women’s history, the conference, unknowingly, was about to make a significant contribution to the subject. More than three times the expected size, 600 women came together from around the UK. Sheila Rowbotham (mother of the good idea) said it was at that moment ‘a movement could be said to exist’. The conference focused less on women’s history, largely because so little had been written up at that point, and instead focused more on the position and experience of women in 1970. It voted to adopt four demands: Equal pay; Equal education and opportunity; 24 hour nurseries and; Free contraception and abortion on demand. The Women’s Liberation Movement of the 1970s gave voice, confidence and strength to millions of women. It was an organised expression of a greater period known as Second Wave Feminism.

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/fighting-for-trans-rights-in-todays-labour-movement/s-kOK8gqYtkm1 During the late 19th and early 20th centuries the first modern gay movement was born, flourished and was eventually crushed. The founding of the Weimar Republic saw the establishment of Magnus Hirschfeld’s Institut für Sexualwissenschaft (Institute for Sexology), an institute which; largely through Hirschfeld’s research, coined the term Transgender. The histories of gay and trans people are not always easy to separate out & there is much that is interwoven and shared in the history of the two groups. This talk will discuss the way in which German society viewed trans people & how this fed into their eventual persecution at the hands of the Nazi regime. All audio at workersliberty.org/audio . Please subscribe, share, review!

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/1919-4-of-5 All articles online: https://workersliberty.org/1919 Buy the book: https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets Video introduction: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/video-introduction-1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets All Workers' Liberty audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

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/workers-liberty/1919-5-of-5 All articles online: https://workersliberty.org/1919 Buy the book: https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets Video introduction: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/video-introduction-1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets All Workers' Liberty audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

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-liberty/1919-5-of-5 All articles online: https://workersliberty.org/1919 Buy the book: https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets Video introduction: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/video-introduction-1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets All Workers' Liberty audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

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-liberty/1919-5-of-5 All articles online: https://workersliberty.org/1919 Buy the book: https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets Video introduction: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/video-introduction-1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets All Workers' Liberty audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

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://www.marxists.org/archive/cannon/works/1953/workersrule.htm See other key texts: https://workersliberty.org/study

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/1919-4-of-5 https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/1919-5-of-5 All articles online: https://workersliberty.org/1919 Buy the book: https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets Video introduction: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-12/video-introduction-1919-strikes-struggles-and-soviets All Workers' Liberty audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

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-1974

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 these articles : https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-03-23/keynesianism-and-covid-19 https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2008/10/24/keynes-crisis-marx-and-keynesianism All audio at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty

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-4-marxs-telescope https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth Full pamphlet at: https://workersliberty.org/WL70 Browse and subscribe to all audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio

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/automation-and-the-working-class-1-lead-article https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth Full pamphlet at: workersliberty.org/WL70 Browse and subscribe to all audio: workersliberty.org/audio

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.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope Full pamphlet at: workersliberty.org/WL70 Browse and subscribe to all audio: workersliberty.org/audio