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We have branches in Birmingham, Brighton, Bristol, North and West Yorkshire (Leeds, Wakefield, York), Manchester, East Midlands (Nottingham, Newark and Leicester), Sheffield, Scotland (Glasgow and Edinburgh), Newcastle and across London. We have an online-only branch which brings together activists elsewhere in the UK and internationally. Our London branches are: North London, Lewisham, South West London.
Our activists in trade unions meet regularly covering: tubeworkers and railworkers, health workers, Unison members, Unite members, Higher Education workers, school workers and PCS members. Our student members meet fortnightly online. We have a network for women and non-binary members.
What we stand for
Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production.
Capitalists’ control over the economy and their relentless drive to increase their wealth causes poverty, unemployment, blighting of lives by overwork; imperialism, environmental destruction and much else.
The working class must unite to struggle against the accumulated wealth and power of the capitalists, in the workplace and wider society.
The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty wants socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, workers’ control, and a democracy much fuller than the present system, with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges.
We fight for trade unions and the Labour Party to break with “social partnership” with the bosses, to militantly assert working-class interests.
In workplaces, trade unions, and Labour organisations; among students; in local campaigns; on the left and in wider political alliances we stand for:
• Independent working-class representation in politics
• A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour movement
• A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, strike, picket effectively, and take solidarity action
• Taxing the rich to fund good public services, homes, education and jobs for all
• Workers’ control of major industries and finance for a rapid transition to a green society
• A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression
• Full equality for women, and social provision to free women from domestic labour. Reproductive freedoms and free abortion on demand.
• Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans people
• Black and white workers’ unity against racism
• Open borders
• Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist rulers
• Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or community to global social organisation
• Equal rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big and small
• Maximum left unity in action, and full openness in debate
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Contact us
Alliance for Workers' Liberty
20E Tower Workshops
Riley Road
London SE1 3DG
Phone: 020 7394 8923
Email: awl@workersliberty.org
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