The AWL’s motto and guideline is what Leon Trotsky called “the rules” for revolutionary socialists: “To face reality squarely; not to seek the line of least resistance; to call things by their right names; to speak the truth to the masses, no matter how bitter it may be; not to fear obstacles; to be true in little things as in big ones; to base one’s program on the logic of the class struggle; to be bold when the hour for action arrives”.
Part 4 of a series on “Misunderstandings, misrepresentations, and lies about the AWL” - an overview of the Trotskyist movement from the 1940s to the 1960s
AWL traces its origins to the Workers' Fight group, set up in 1966-7. What was the background in terms of the record and direction of development of the other would-be Trotskyist groups then?
This programmatic "preamble" adopted by the Irish Workers' Group in 1967 is in essence one of the founding political documents of the tendency which is now the AWL.
On Saturday 21 March 60 people, including many young workers and students, attended the Workers’ Liberty day school on “Capitalist Crisis, Workers’ Response” in London.
The AWL has launched a new fund drive – to raise £25,000 by the end of 2010.
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