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Fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to capitalism & Stalinism.
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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · Dec 3
New issue of Solidarity now out!

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The protest movement which began on 28 December 2025 amongst the conservative merchants in the Tehran bazaar has spread across the country.

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Iran’s new surge of protest
The protest movement which began on 28 December 2025 amongst the conservative merchants in the Tehran bazaar has spread across the country. The bazaaris, many of whom traditionally support the…
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January 7, 2026 at 3:00 PM
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The politics and strategy of Together are seriously inadequate for the far-right threat we face. We must keep arguing and organising for better.

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Build for 28 March, and for a stronger workers' united front
On 2 December, the “Together Alliance” against the far-right launched.
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January 7, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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Less than four days after declaring that his new year’s resolution was “peace. Peace on earth”, Donald Trump has bombed Caracas and kidnapped the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. (Updated 06/01/2026)

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US out of Venezuela!
Less than four days after declaring that his New Year’s resolution was “peace. Peace on earth”, Donald Trump bombed Caracas and kidnapped the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro. In a subsequent…
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January 7, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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New issue of solidarity out now!

Link: bit.ly/sol-758
January 7, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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This report, "The 3rd World Congress of the International Socialist League: an attempt at revolutionary regroupment", was published (22 December 2025) by the NPA-R in France.
A new "Orthodox Trotskyist" regroupment
Introduction The report below, "the 3rd World Congress of the International Socialist League: an attempt at revolutionary regroupment", was published (22 December 2025) by the NPA-R in France. Click…
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January 5, 2026 at 5:01 PM
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A new mode of capitalism is developing. It draws much from the neoliberal globalisation era which had its high days in 1991-2008, as generally each regime of capitalist operation continues or adapts much from what came before, but it is distinct.
A new mode of capitalism
Incrementally since 2008-9, and faster with Trump's tariff war since April 2025, a new mode of capitalism is developing. It draws much from the neoliberal globalisation era which had its high days in…
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January 5, 2026 at 9:02 AM
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COP30, the 30th annual United Nations climate meeting in Belém, Brazil ended in November with no substantial progress. What should the workers’ movement and socialists advocate?
An emergency plan on climate change
COP30, the 30th annual United Nations climate meeting in Belém, Brazil ended in November with no substantial progress. What should the workers’ movement and socialists advocate?
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January 4, 2026 at 5:00 PM
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Sven Beckert's new book is a bravura sketch, in 1,300 pages, of the whole story of capitalism from its pre-history before the "great connecting" of the world market in the "long 16th century" right up to today.
Capitalism and its "perfect storms"
Sven Beckert's new book is a bravura sketch, in 1,300 pages, of the whole story of capitalism from its pre-history before the "great connecting" of the world market in the "long 16th century" right…
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January 4, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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In October 2025, 31 employees at Rockstar North in Edinburgh (as well as three in Canada) were fired for gross misconduct for allegedly leaking information in a public forum.

All were key members of the IWGB union branch.
Games developer sacks union members
In October 2025, 31 employees at Rockstar North in Edinburgh (as well as three in Canada) were fired for gross misconduct for allegedly leaking information in a public forum.
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January 4, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Less than four days after declaring that his new year’s resolution was “peace. Peace on earth”, Donald Trump has bombed Caracas and kidnapped the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.

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US out of Venezuela!
Less than four days after declaring that his new year’s resolution was “peace. Peace on earth”, Donald Trump has bombed Caracas and kidnapped the president of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro.
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January 3, 2026 at 6:24 PM
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Unison: Andrea Egan’s win will be a huge boost to the left, militant and activist bases in the union. We should use it to reignite the union industrially and politically.

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Andrea Egan wins Unison general secretary
Andrea Egan, the left candidate of Time For Real Change, has been elected in the 2025 Unison general secretary election, and will take office on 22 January. Voting in the ballot was as follows:…
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December 17, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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Report of Notts Trades Union Council conference on trade union responses to the growth of the far right and the electoral successes of Reform UK (29 November).

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December 15, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Where does the NATO "military alliance" come from? What is it?

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A very short history of NATO
NATO’s history is that of an organisation constrained by the different (often imperialist) interests of its member states. It is dominated by imperialist states, but is not in fact a deployable…
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December 9, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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A further contribution to debate with the Socialismo o Barbarie current

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Reply to Socialismo o Barbarie
A further contribution to debate with the Socialismo o Barbarie current
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December 9, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Economist Farid Mehralizade, jailed in Azerbaijan since mid-2024 for his part in an online opposition journal, and sentenced to nine years on 20 June 2025, has been given a Press Freedom Award by the US-based National Press Club of journalists.

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Farid Mehralizade and Donald Trump
Economist Farid Mehralizade, jailed in Azerbaijan since mid-2024 for his part in an online opposition journal, and sentenced to nine years on 20 June 2025, has been given a Press Freedom Award by the…
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December 9, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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Womanhood is not defined solely by uterus or chromosomes, but by who is punished for failing to conform to femininity, or who suffers from gendered violence. Trans women are unequivocally among that number.

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Do trans women suffer from women's oppression?
Clearly a key point of departure in the debate between trans inclusive feminists and those that seek to exclude trans women from the women's movement is whether trans women experience women’s…
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December 9, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Review of Christy. At least for this viewer Christy Salters' story was compelling and harrowing in a way I wasn’t expecting. It also tells the story of the evolution of women’s boxing.

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Boxing, sexism, and abuse
Sports biopics and boxing movies have long been a staple of Hollywood. First act: rise to success against the odds (probably depicted in a montage at some point). Second act: struggles with demons,…
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December 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Culture: "If you are looking for a present for that film-loving friend check out the new Second Run Box Set of three of Hungarian director István Szabó’s best films."

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50 years since Franco; István Szabó
Some years ago I attended a conference in Valencia where a Spanish participant told me that in her village, on hearing the news of Franco’s demise, the celebrations were such that they ran out of…
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December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Opinion: "The Greens have 175,000 members, a radical left programme, proper internal democracy, and an electoral base in the precarious urban working class. I have no idea what is going to happen - but neither do you."

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On the Greens: a response
For the first time in a hundred years, Labour’s monopoly on political representation for the left is breaking down. It is not difficult to explain why. On the one hand, the Corbyn moment in Labour…
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December 8, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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"Since Trump’s second election, he’s determined to reestablish control over South America. He sees in Milei a key ally to establish American influence in the region."

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Argentina: Milei and the opposition
Daniela, a member now living in France of the international Trotskyist current Socialismo o Barbarie, and a former activist with its organisation in Argentina, Nuevo MAS, spoke at Ideas for Freedom.…
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December 8, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Review of Hal Draper's history of early feminism and socialism.

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The pioneers of women’s liberation
Picture: Claire Lacombe Haymarket Press has recently published a collection of writings by Nancy Holmstrom (a long-time contributor to the US “Third Camp” socialist journals New Politics and Against…
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December 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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Review. of 'The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism' by Eric Lee.

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Was Menshevik Georgia a model?
Eric Lee’s The August Uprising, 1924: The Georgian Anti-Soviet Revolt and the Birth of Democratic Socialism deals with the aftermath of the Soviet invasion of Georgia in 1921 and the lead-up to the…
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December 8, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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It was with the aim of forestalling a further revival of Chartism that the first Christian Socialist group was formed.

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When socialism was proposed as the alternative to class struggle
In the article titled The Chartist workers” fight for knowledge (Solidarity 751), I set out to show that an important dimension of the Chartist movement was an aspiration towards “really useful…
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December 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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Abridged from a pamphlet, “The First Three Socialist Internationals”, published in 1989. Though idiosyncratic in its slant on some points, this tells the story of the three large-scale efforts so far to make socialism an organised international movement.

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From Second to Third International
Abridged from a pamphlet, “The First Three Socialist Internationals”, published in 1989. Though idiosyncratic in its slant on some points, this tells the story of the three large-scale efforts so far…
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December 7, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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A new peace deal, authored by the US and Russia, is undergoing a series of negotiations and revisions with Ukraine.

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Back Ukraine against Trump’s plans!
The latest round of peace negotiations between Russia and Ukraine is underway. After multiple unsuccessful attempts over the course of Trump’s first year in office, this plan appeared, almost out of…
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December 7, 2025 at 3:02 PM