Archives

The founding document of our tendency. Read it, plus an intro written for a reprint of it in the 1990s, “The RSL (Militant) in the 1960s: a study in passivity”. See also a history of our tendency, written in 2006.

Workers’ Fight (WF) produced the Workers’ Fight mag.; and later the WF paper, supplemented by pamphlets, the Permanent Revolution mag., and internal bulletins. The pamphlets cover fights around The Industrial Relations Act (1971); the July crisis (1972); the 1975 EEC referendum; and the “Fourth International”.

“Workers’ Action” newspaper issues #1-182, from 1976 to 1981

International Communist League’s magazine, 1976-8, plus IC-L pamphlets on Women’s Liberation and Workers’ Revolution, and on the “Fourth International”

The Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory (SCLV) was formed in 1978, and then launched Socialist Organiser (SO) newspaper, which ran to issue #624 in 1995; plus supplements and special issues. “Socialist Forum” was three issues, published as supplements to Socialist Organiser in 1985.

New Women’s Fightback series of magazines, 2006-present

Workers’ Liberty magazines have run through three volumes, with multiple issues in each, and in various formats.

“Solidarity” started in February 2002, developing out of a paper, “Action for Solidarity”, which in turn had come out of the Welfare State Network. It was initially fortnightly, and has been weekly from #188, January 2011. The archive starts at #017 and there have been over 700 issues to date.

A selection of our books and pamphlets can be purchased here. Other publications are not (yet) listed in the shop, including some which are sold out and online only.

We will complete and expand this archive over time: for now, some older pamphlets can better be found by using the search facility on this site. A physical archive is held at the library of the London School of Economics. If you have any old copies of our publications, DBs, etc., in paper or electronically; or want help finding a particular thing, please get in touch! You may also find our history useful.

Workers' Liberty Australia has produced publications since the early 1980s: the Socialist Fight newspaper and then later Workers' Liberty (Australia). We have ongoing bulletins and similar in various workplaces and industries, including some which have been going for decades; plus an erratic collection of others. The Marxist Revival magazine from 2014 was published by the Iranian Revolutionary Marxists’ Tendency and the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty as an international discussion journal of revolutionary Marxists. Bolshy was a magazine produced by Workers' Liberty youth 2002-2005.

Workers’ Liberty see ourselves as “third camp Trotskyist”, learning much from the lost tradition of Max Shachtman and The Workers Party. The WP was founded in the USA in 1940, renamed itself the Independent Socialist League in 1949, producing Labor action, and dissolved in 1957. Some of that Trotskyism was carried on in the 60s and 70s by Hal Draper and others.