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Fifty years of women's liberation
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.

“Berlin’s Third Sex” — The fight for trans rights: past, present and future
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!

The Vestas Wind Turbine Factory occupation — talk, a decade on
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, 5 of 5: Strikes, struggles, soviets
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, 4 of 5: Strikes, struggles, soviets
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, 3 of 5: Strikes, struggles, soviets
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, 2 of 5: Strikes, struggles, soviets
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

James P. Cannon — America under the workers’ rule
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, 1 of 5: Strikes, struggles, soviets
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

WL68 2/2: Morality, revolution, the Bolsheviks, and us - appendices
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

WL68 1/2: Morality, revolution, the Bolsheviks, and us - lead article
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

When workers beat the fascists — WL 3/69 — how the left fought the antisemites at cable street
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

Keynesianism and Covid-19 - intro only
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

Automation 1 — Automation and the working class — lead article
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

Automation 2 & 3 — The Future and Robots, Hipster Reformism and the Technological Fix
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

Automation 5 - "The great foundation-stone of wealth"
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

Automation 4 — Marx's Telescope
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-fix 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

Covid-19, fight for workers' control!
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 various trade unionists and other activists (slightly redacted on request): 00:00 Martin Thomas, Workers' Liberty/Solidarity editor 21:14 Ruth, Lambeth council worker 26:02 Stuart, mental health worker 31:27 London Underground worker 39:30 Jo, organiser of Labour mutual aid groups in Sheffield 41:50 Mark, school worker 48 summation by Martin Thomas The article mentioned by Martin Thomas at the beginning is here: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2020-02-12/coronavirus-and-climate-change See more at workersliberty.org, or fb.com/workersliberty, or on twitter at @workersliberty Subscribe to and browse more audio at workersliberty.org/audio

How to fight the fossil fuel industry
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?

Class struggle environmentalism & Climate strikes
"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/year-climate-strikes For future events by Workers' Liberty, see https://workersliberty.org/events

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

Women's Fightback #24, pt 2/2, pp9-15
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 #24, pt1/2, pp1-8
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-magazine/latest-issue/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-24-march-2020 All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio#solidarity

A review of Andreas Malm's 'Fossil Capital' — Older ed. of For Workers' Climate Action
'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

Democracy and Revolution in Sudan (12 July forum) with Namaa al-Mahdi and Stephen Wood
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 sure what Russia felt like in 1917 as the tsar was being toppled, or France in 1871 in the heady, idealistic days of the short-lived Paris Commune. But it must have felt something like Khartoum in April 2019." David Pilling, Financial Times Incredible things are happening in Sudan. In early June, the Transitional Military Council, which took power after the downfall of the Sudanese tyrant Bashir after 30 years of brutal oppression, itself turned brutally on the Sudanese rebels who had maintained a sit-in outside their military headquarters in Khartoum. The repression used the notorious paramilitaries of the Rapid Support Forces (RSF). 180 were killed. Bodies were dumped into the Nile, weighted down by breeze blocks to try and disguise evidence. Many more have been wounded, arrested and detained in public offices guarded by the Janjaweed forces. Women and men have been raped, many are missing. The Sudanese revolution had united those across ethnicities who had been oppressed by the Bashir regime. Prominent amongst them had been new unions formed in most industries and services and brought together in the Sudanese Professional Association (SPA). The struggle of civil resistance continues. In response to the military massacres, there was a 3 day general strike and road blocks have been set up by the rebels to impede the now heavily armed murderous RSF militias. The Sudanese revolution needs our solidarity.

What kind of left does Labour need? with Seema Syeda and Edward Maltby
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

The bourgeois Marx: a critical appraisal of Max Weber with Dan Davison
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/

1956: Hungary’s workers rise up with John Cunningham
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/reading-list-1956-hungarian-revolution See https://workersliberty.org/story/2009/04/29/hungary-1956-solasworkers-republic-editorial-november-1966

The Uyghur people's fight for freedom with Aziz Isa Elkun, Uyghur activist
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-uyghurs

Brexit and imperialist nostalgia with Danny Dorling and Cath Fletcher
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 referenced, https://workersliberty.org/remainrebel https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-12/brexit-and-tory-schisms

Labour and antisemitism with Martin Thomas
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 anyone who wished to present the opposing view from the floor. Our pamphlets can be found at workersliberty.org/pamphlets, and the pamphlet referenced at https://workersliberty.org/as-pamphlet See also https://workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/livingstone-and-anti-zionist-left

Arguing for Autistic Rights: the backlash against neurodiversity & how to overcome it
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-neurodiversity-and-how-overcome-it For the books, see https://www.amazon.co.uk/Autism-Equality-Workplace-Challenging-Discrimination/dp/1849056781 and https://www.amazon.co.uk/NeuroDiversity-Birth-Idea-Judy-Singer/dp/064815470X See https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-12/making-space-diversity and https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-05-22/two-and-half-cheers-neurodiversity

Independent working-class education and the legacy of the Plebs League with Colin Waugh
In the early 1900s, working-class activists built an organisation aimed at developing an independent working-class education, in order to prepare the labour movement for power. What can we learn from it today? Colin Waugh (Independent Working-Class Education Network) See here https://workersliberty.org/node/14617

The breakup of Yugoslavia with Sarah Correia
What can the breakup of Yugoslavia teach us about nationalism, Stalinism, and inter-communal conflict? Academic and writer Sarah Correia (London School of Economics) will give a talk, followed by discussion. See https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-05/break-yugoslavia

Andreas Malm's 'Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power & Roots of Global Warming' — see description
For more critical perspectives on Malm by speaker who gave this talk see here https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-04-13/how-class-struggle-shaped-fossil-fuel and here https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-03-27/argument-over-malm-much-ado-about-nothing And more critique and debate here https://www.workersliberty.org/malm-debate This session introduces Andreas Malm's book on fossil fuels, and discusses how it could help activists develop an anti-capitalist, working-class environmentalism. With Mike Zubrowski See Workers' Liberty's pamphlets at http://workersliberty.org/pamphlets, including our 2018 pamphlet "For workers' climate action" https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet For a book review by another workers' liberty activist, see http://workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/fossil-fuels-and-rise-capitalism The book can be bought, in paper and/or ebook form, at https://www.versobooks.com/books/2002-fossil-capital For information about our summer camp, see workersliberty.org/camp

Deliveroo strikes: workers fighting back in the gig economy
Deliveroo workers have organises a series of strikes against the food delivery company, demanding living wages and better conditions. This session discusses their struggle in the context of ongoing workers' fight backs in the "gig economy". With Tyrone Falls (Chair, Bristol Couriers' Network - IWGB) and Zack Murrell-Dowson (Chair, IWGB National Deliveroo Committee) Many articles have been written on this struggle, see http://workersliberty.org/iwgb For information about our summer camp, see workersliberty.org/camp

The future of the left in Israel
The future of the left in Israel, session at Ideas For Freedom 2019. The 2019 elections returned disastrous results for the left. Against a backdrop of rising nationalism, with Israel's right-wing government apparently intent on permanent annexation of Palestinian Territories, three speakers will discuss the prospects for building a Jewish-Arab left that can fight back against occupation, racism, and capitalism. With Eric Lee (Labour Start, p.c.), Maya Ilany (Yachad, p.c.), Tom Harris (Workers' Liberty). See Workers' Liberty's pamphlets at http://workersliberty.org/pamphlets, including our pamphlet "Two nations, two states: socialists and Israel/Palestine" https://workersliberty.org/story/2010/08/21/israel-palestine-two-nations-two-states Check out this article workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-12/left-israel For information about our summer camp, see workersliberty.org/camp

LGBT+ education in schools with Khakan Qureshi, Birmingham South Asians LGBT, and NEU activists
With protests against LGBT+ education continuing in Birmingham, this session discusses how school workers, LGBT+ campaigners, and others can build alliances to fight for LGBT+ education in schools, and against bigotry. With Khakan Qureshi (Birmingham South Asians LGBT) and Duncan Morrison (National Education Union) See https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-04-17/speaking-out-lgbt-inclusive-education For information about our summer camp, see workersliberty.org/camp

What kind of "Green New Deal"? With Luke Neal and Abel Harvie-Clarke
\With the climate crisis becoming acute, discussions are developing about how governments should response. What kind of "Green New Deal" do we need to stop climate catastrophe, and how can workers' organisations fight for it? With Luke Neal (Workers' Liberty) and Abel Harvie-Clarke (UK School Climate Network, school climate striker) See Workers' Liberty's pamphlets at http://workersliberty.org/pamphlets, including our 2018 pamphlet "For workers' climate action" https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet See also http://workersliberty.org/story/2019-05-01/socialist-green-new-deal-take-over-big-eleven The book can be bought, in paper and/or ebook form, at https://www.versobooks.com/books/2002-fossil-capital For information about our summer camp, see workersliberty.org/camp

Identity politics and Class Struggle
Are "identity politics" and class politics in conflict? Do struggles against particular oppressions threaten working-class unity? Are concepts like "intersectionality" useful? These questions, and more, were discussed, in this Session at Ideas for Freedom 2019. With Ralph Leonard (writer and activist), Christie Neary (Workers' Liberty) See http://workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/whats-wrong-identity-politics, and also the chapter in our pamphlet https://workersliberty.org/why-soc-fem

The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg
'The Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg: Luxemburg and Luxemburgism'. A discussion at Ideas for Freeom 2019, led by Justine Canady and Martin Thomas. 100 years since her execution at the hands of proto-fascist paramilitaries enabled by the Social Democratic government, Rosa Luxemburg's legacy continues to be contested terrain for socialists. This session reviewed that legacy by looking at some of Luxemburg's key ideas. See our pamphlets at workersliberty.org/pamphlets, and in particular our pamphlet on the German Revolution, collected writings of Luxemburg https://workersliberty.org/rosa-luxemburg-selected See http://workersliberty.org/story/2019-01-25/rosa-luxemburg-and-imperialism

The German Social Democratic Women's Movement
'Zetkin, Luxemburg and the German Social Democratic Women's Movement'. Discussion at Ideas for Freedom, led by Kelly Rogers and Kieran Miles, based on Lambeth AWL's socialist feminist reading group. See chapter by Janine Booth in workersliberty.org/why-soc-fem

The Inner Level with Richard Wilkinson
Richard Wilkinson introduces his latest book "The Inner Level: How More Equal Societies Reduce Stress, Restore Sanity and Improve Everyone's Wellbeing" , co-written with Kate Pickett, & discuss the relationships between inequality and physical and mental health, at Ideas for Freedom 2019. Check out this review by Todd Hamer workersliberty.org/node/33768 Note: the graph referred to at 3.17 can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=15STbLvU5EtU6BjRHdGxgkKF6Y_6ODZSQ

The Tiananmen Square uprising 1989
'The Tiananmen Square uprising: when Chinese workers and students fought for freedom'. A discussion at Ideas for Freedom 2019, led by Dr. Camila Bassi (Sheffield Hallam University, Workers' Liberty) 30 years ago, an uprising of workers and students faced the military might of the Chinese state. What were the demands of the uprising, and why was it crushed so brutally? What are the lessons for those fighting for democracy against authoritarian regimes today? Note: the text referred to but not read out at 39.50 can be found here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1GDW0FlRzQVvIcUEvsZ6W3lJFUIHRxp0M The novel referred to is Ma Jian's "Beijing Coma", the autobiographical account is "Almost a Revolution: The Story of a Chinese Student's Journey from Boyhood to Leadership in Tiananmen Square" by Shen Tong, and one of the other historians referred to is Rana Mitter Check out this article workersliberty.org/story/2019-03-30/road-tienanmen-square-workers-and-students-chinafreedom

Climate change and socialist politics — Older ed. of For Workers' Climate Action
Climate change and socialist politics, document passed by Workers' Liberty conference, October 2008. More, a paper version of the WCA booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

William Morris: ecology and the shift to socialism — Older ed. of For Workers' Climate Action
William Morris: ecology and the shift to socialism, part 6 of our series on the politics of the late 19th century socialist William Morris, February 2009, by Paul Hampton More, a paper version of the booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

Urgent and radical action on climate change — Older ed. of For Workers' Climate Action
Urgent and radical action on climate change, motion submitted to Labour Party conference, 2018. More, a paper version of the booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

The German Revolution: 12. Order Prevails in Berlin
Order Prevails in Berlin by Rosa Luxemburg, 14 January 1919

The German Revolution: 11. House of Cards
House of Cards by Rosa Luxemburg, 13 January 1919

The German Revolution: 10. What are the Leaders Doing?
What are the Leaders Doing? by Rosa Luxemburg, 7 January 1919