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The Tory campaign for this general election has more money, but the Labour campaign has more people. Tens of thousands of Labour volunteers are taking to the streets and the phone-banks. As socialist internationalists, we are with those volunteers. The labour movement is our movement, and we want it to win in this election against the Tories and Lib Dems. We also have more to do than adding our numbers to the general labour movement mobilisation. We have political tasks. The road to socialism, in our view, fundamentally goes through working-class organisation and struggle in the workplaces and...

Thanks this week to Ian Townson, £1,000, Linda and Harold Youd £50, and John Cunningham, £20. Their contributions bring our fund-drive total to £15,460.93. We have another £9,539.07 to raise to reach our £25,000 target. Less than £10,000 to go! Three comrades from Sheffield tell us they’re planning a sponsored bike ride. Since October’s sponsored bike ride, by a single rider, raised £1,250, we should have a good chance of raising several thousands from that. We’ve already spent a lot of money on buying leaflets for the general election campaign from Labour for a Socialist Europe — and now...

In 2013, the Australian journalist Ginger Gorman became the subject of an online hate campaign. In 2010, she had interviewed two gay men, seemingly an ordinary couple, about their adoption of a young boy. Three years later the men were convicted of child sexual exploitation; they had been involved in an international paedophile network. Naturally Gorman was mortified that she had, however inadvertently, given these men a platform. But a few days after the conviction Gorman began to be inundated by tweets from ″conservatives″ saying she was a paedophile collaborator, and, equally horrifying to...

Workers’ Liberty students have been at Freshers’ Fairs across the country this month. At many we met students involved in the Hong Kong protests with whom we will be organising campus meetings to discuss the democracy movement and organise solidarity actions. Lots of new students were impressed with the role we played in passing policy in support of free movement and migrants’ rights at Labour conference. Lots wanted to check we were against Brexit before signing up. We are organising weekly public meetings, reading groups and paper sales at Greenwich, Birkbeck, UCL, Cambridge, Sheffield and...

Giving up smoking Maisie Sanders will be giving up smoking , valiantly shunning the nicotine addiction from Monday 4 November. Martin Thomas did a sponsored bike ride from London to our new Workers' Liberty branch in Cambridge on Sunday 20 October, which raised £1250. That appeal is now closed.

Fifty friends and supporters of Workers’ Liberty gathered in the hills of West Yorkshire for our annual summer camp on 8-11 August. Although storms were forecast, socialists of all ages enjoyed wild swimming in a nearby waterfall, hiking, trips on the canals and steam railways of the surrounding valleys, football, and our annual pub quiz and talent show. Longtime socialist Bruce Robinson ran a presentation on African Jazz; we learned about the history of Esperanto in the European workers’ movement; and we enjoyed talks from Deliveroo strikers, Nama’a al-Mahdi the Sudanese revolutionary...

This article in the Morning Star (published on 29 March) defended remarks made by Eddie Dempsey at a recent "Full Brexit" rally, by way of inaccuracies and misleading remarks including about Workers' Liberty. That article has now been taken down from their online publication. Clive Lewis was branded “out of order” by RMT general secretary Mick Cash today after the Labour MP promoted an article calling a leading trade unionist a “Tommy Robinson apologist.” Mr Cash demanded the Norwich South MP apologise for sharing an article that labelled RMT activist Eddie Dempsey a supporter of the far-right...

A change from our regular schedule: We will print the paper Solidarity 498 later than usual in the week, on Thursday 7 March. This is so that much of the distribution of that issue of the paper can be done at the Labour for a Socialist Europe conference on 9 March, rather than by couriers and post. We expect many of our readers and sellers to be attending that conference. http://labourforasocialisteurope.org Subscribers and sellers not attending the conference will have their papers posted out at usual, but on Friday 8 March rather than Wednesday 6 March. Solidarity 499 will go to press on...

We have published an online briefing which brings together images and other evidence to show how the Red London group operates and trace the development of the witch-hunt against the AWL. Red London is a Facebook page which deploys unevidenced smears rather than polemic against people they politically oppose. Its administrators are anonymous. The group also builds support for contemporary Stalinist state formations (e.g. North Korea, China), praises “High Stalinism” (the USSR in the 1930s and 40s) and is strongly aligned with the Communist Party of Britain, and its paper the Morning Star. RL...

Policies updated at AWL Conference April 2023. Code of Conduct These guidelines are intended to help us in our day-to-day dealings with each other, to allow us to function effectively politically as individuals and as an organisation. In the AWL we call each other “comrades”, and our relations with each other should be comradely. AWL expects its members to: • Maintain a spirit of solidarity with each other, even though we may sometimes have angry and bitter political or organisational conflicts. • Treat each other with respect, regardless of any personal friendship issues or fallings-out. •...