Workers' Liberty
@workersliberty.bsky.social
Fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to capitalism & Stalinism.
Website: https://workersliberty.org/
Website: https://workersliberty.org/
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📅Ideas for Freedom takes place on 22-23 November in Islington.
🤔 + debate on 'A New Party' on Friday 21 November, 7pm at Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, London W1 6AQ.
🎟️ More + wkd/day/half-day tickets: www.workersliberty.org/iff25
🥐Free creche, cheap food and crash accommodation.
🤔 + debate on 'A New Party' on Friday 21 November, 7pm at Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, London W1 6AQ.
🎟️ More + wkd/day/half-day tickets: www.workersliberty.org/iff25
🥐Free creche, cheap food and crash accommodation.
2025 is the 200th anniversary of the British railway network. Janine Booth author of ‘Railworkers 200’, recounts the railworkers’ struggles.
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@JanineBooth
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November 13, 2025 at 4:23 PM
2025 is the 200th anniversary of the British railway network. Janine Booth author of ‘Railworkers 200’, recounts the railworkers’ struggles.
@JanineBooth
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
@JanineBooth
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
With women’s rights under attack what kind of socialist-feminist politics do we need? Iranian-American writer Frieda Afary and CeCe Hyde, Women’s Fightback editorial board, discuss perspectives.
Sat 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
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Sat 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
With women’s rights under attack what kind of socialist-feminist politics do we need? Iranian-American writer Frieda Afary and CeCe Hyde, Women’s Fightback editorial board, discuss perspectives.
Sat 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Sat 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On the pay offer, there is no real feeling of victory, but increasingly one of resignation
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How to make a shrug received wisdom
It has now been eight weeks since the week of strikes, 7-12 September, that brought almost the entire Tube network to a five-day standstill. Since then, we’ve had a revised pay offer. The difference…
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November 12, 2025 at 3:02 PM
On the pay offer, there is no real feeling of victory, but increasingly one of resignation
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It is 50 years since the Italian film director, poet, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on a beach near Rome.
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Pier Paolo Pasolini, 1922-1975
It is 50 years since the Italian film director, poet, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on a beach near Rome. There is still some mystery attached to his death though it seems…
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November 12, 2025 at 12:01 PM
It is 50 years since the Italian film director, poet, and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini was brutally murdered on a beach near Rome.
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Paul Hampton, author of a new book, ‘Culpable: Deregulation, Austerity and the Causes of the Grenfell Tower Fire’ discusses the political and economic choices that led up to Grenfell.
On Saturday at 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Saturday at 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 12, 2025 at 11:55 AM
Paul Hampton, author of a new book, ‘Culpable: Deregulation, Austerity and the Causes of the Grenfell Tower Fire’ discusses the political and economic choices that led up to Grenfell.
On Saturday at 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Saturday at 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
The “Cultural Revolution” was a caricature of a revolution. Students and workers were fundamentally make-weights for one faction in the bureaucratic ruling class against another.
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The story of the Cultural Revolution
The high days of China’s Cultural Revolution ran from August 1966 through to mid-1967. School students, university students, and, later, some groups of workers, were mobilised to get rid of…
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November 12, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The “Cultural Revolution” was a caricature of a revolution. Students and workers were fundamentally make-weights for one faction in the bureaucratic ruling class against another.
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
Review of 'Railworkers 200: Two centuries of rail workers and their struggles' by Janine Booth.
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200 years of rail — and workers’ battles
“The unity of the working masses is paramount; they will establish their own discipline of equals and, using the technical and cultural achievements, make the railways run like clockwork… When this…
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November 11, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Review of 'Railworkers 200: Two centuries of rail workers and their struggles' by Janine Booth.
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After global neoliberalism is a new mode of capitalism emerging, more nationalist, protectionist, and state-interventionist? With Martin Thomas, editor of ‘Crisis and Sequels..’
On Sunday 2.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Sunday 2.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 11, 2025 at 4:50 PM
After global neoliberalism is a new mode of capitalism emerging, more nationalist, protectionist, and state-interventionist? With Martin Thomas, editor of ‘Crisis and Sequels..’
On Sunday 2.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Sunday 2.40pm, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
The US, and in serious part, the world economy, currently depends on three bubbles: AI, crypto-currency, and various forms of “shadow banking”.
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Three bubbles show risk of recession
The US capitalist economy, and in serious part, the world economy, currently depends on three bubbles: AI, crypto-currency, and various forms of “shadow banking”. Big IT companies developing AI…
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
The US, and in serious part, the world economy, currently depends on three bubbles: AI, crypto-currency, and various forms of “shadow banking”.
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workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
Letter: "It is not really a scandal that the far right genocidally anti-Arab government of Israel invited Robinson: they are in fact to his right in words and deeds."
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Letter: Eric Lee is wrong about Tommy Robinson
Eric Lee’s column in Solidarity 754 deals with Tommy Robinson’s (and Geka Geladze, the Georgian Minister of the Interior’s) recent trip to Israel. What Lee has written here is wrong, not our…
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November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Letter: "It is not really a scandal that the far right genocidally anti-Arab government of Israel invited Robinson: they are in fact to his right in words and deeds."
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How have revolutionary socialists in France intervened in the recent anti-government struggles? With French activists.
On Sunday 11am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Sunday 11am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 11, 2025 at 10:26 AM
How have revolutionary socialists in France intervened in the recent anti-government struggles? With French activists.
On Sunday 11am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Sunday 11am, at IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
The “Real Living Wage” went up on 22 October by 6.8%. What are the factors behind this?
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Why a 6.8% pay rise is only modest
The “Real Living Wage”, calculated by one sort-of-Blairite think-tank, the Resolution Foundation, for another, the Living Wage Foundation, went up on 22 October by 6.8%. Its calculators reckon that…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:01 AM
The “Real Living Wage” went up on 22 October by 6.8%. What are the factors behind this?
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
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The story of the efforts so far to make socialism an organised international movement.
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The First and Second Internationals
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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November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
The story of the efforts so far to make socialism an organised international movement.
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Discussion of this and other aspects of aviation and environment at the Workers' Ecology Reading Group Sunday, 26 October 2025 ⋅20:00 – 22:00 • Zoomlink bit.ly/eco-rg
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This part of curbing aviation’s eco-impact should be easy
Nearly half the current global-warming impact of aviation comes from "contrails" - wispy clouds formed by water droplets condensing round particles emitted from the back of jet engines. To cut that…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Discussion of this and other aspects of aviation and environment at the Workers' Ecology Reading Group Sunday, 26 October 2025 ⋅20:00 – 22:00 • Zoomlink bit.ly/eco-rg
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Mark Osborn, editor of Workers’ Liberty’s newly-updated pamphlet 'How to Beat the Racists', and Justine Candady Tower Hamlets Unison (pc) make the case for an anti-fascism rooted in working-class unity.
Saturday 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Saturday 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Mark Osborn, editor of Workers’ Liberty’s newly-updated pamphlet 'How to Beat the Racists', and Justine Candady Tower Hamlets Unison (pc) make the case for an anti-fascism rooted in working-class unity.
Saturday 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Saturday 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Marx was aware of paper wealth — assets which give title to interest payments from the state. These now run at over £100 billion a year in the UK.
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Marx on debt and finance
Karl Marx opened Capital volume one with the words: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities’,...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
Marx was aware of paper wealth — assets which give title to interest payments from the state. These now run at over £100 billion a year in the UK.
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Some on the left saw, and still see, the post-1949 Maoist regime as progressive. Socialist activist Chan Ying will argue it was a brutal totalitarian regime.
On Saturday at 11.45am, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Details and tickets: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Saturday at 11.45am, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Details and tickets: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Some on the left saw, and still see, the post-1949 Maoist regime as progressive. Socialist activist Chan Ying will argue it was a brutal totalitarian regime.
On Saturday at 11.45am, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Details and tickets: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
On Saturday at 11.45am, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Details and tickets: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Modern political agitation for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights started in the late 19th century with German socialists.
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Magnus Hirschfeld, LGBT pioneer
Picture: Magnus Hirschfeld Modern political agitation for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights started in the late 19th century with German socialists. By Peter Tatchell Over 100 years ago, the gay…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Modern political agitation for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights started in the late 19th century with German socialists.
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
The current thinking on AI job-replacement is “while embalmers and ships’ engineers are in less danger, translators and historians are stuffed”.
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Will AI take our jobs?
An article from the Times is currently doing the rounds. “The 20 jobs most at risk from AI – and the 20 safest” has clearly had quite a bit of traction, not least because the Times has been paying to…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
The current thinking on AI job-replacement is “while embalmers and ships’ engineers are in less danger, translators and historians are stuffed”.
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Farage has appointed James Orr, a “ban all abortions” absolutist as well as a “curb immigration” ideologue, as an official policy adviser to Reform UK.
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A divine mandate for Nigel Farage?
Theology helping to create a “hell on earth” might be one way of describing the project of Professor James Orr, a member of the Cambridge University Divinity Faculty. His manic self-promoting…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Farage has appointed James Orr, a “ban all abortions” absolutist as well as a “curb immigration” ideologue, as an official policy adviser to Reform UK.
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
Anti-Capitalist Resistance (A*CR) adopted an eco-manifesto at their conference in 2024. It is guided by socialist idea but how central are its working-class demands?
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An eco-manifesto and a critique
Anti-Capitalist Resistance (A*CR) adopted an eco-manifesto at their conference in 2024. It has been the moving force in a number of annual Ecosocialism conferences, and, between them, an Ecosocialist…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
Anti-Capitalist Resistance (A*CR) adopted an eco-manifesto at their conference in 2024. It is guided by socialist idea but how central are its working-class demands?
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
As trans rights face attacks from across the political spectrum two trans activists, Natalia Cassidy and Kacey de Groot, discuss how to build the fightback we need.
Saturday 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, Highbury, London.
🎟 Tickets/details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Saturday 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, Highbury, London.
🎟 Tickets/details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
As trans rights face attacks from across the political spectrum two trans activists, Natalia Cassidy and Kacey de Groot, discuss how to build the fightback we need.
Saturday 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, Highbury, London.
🎟 Tickets/details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Saturday 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, Highbury, London.
🎟 Tickets/details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
Thirty six years ago on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.
The Berlin Wall and socialism
See a printable election briefing based on this article. Thirty years ago, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. It was a wall built through Berlin by the rulers of East Germany, which…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Thirty six years ago on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.
Outsourced workers employed by GRM at Newham Centre for Mental Health plan a further six weeks of strikes, in a significant escalation of their campaign for NHS-equivalent pay, terms and conditions.
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GFM strikes step up from 17 November
Outsourced workers at Newham Centre for Mental Health employed by GFM have announced a further six weeks of strikes, in a significant escalation of their campaign for NHS-equivalent pay, terms and…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Outsourced workers employed by GRM at Newham Centre for Mental Health plan a further six weeks of strikes, in a significant escalation of their campaign for NHS-equivalent pay, terms and conditions.
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
What all the Your Party assemblies have shown so far is a deep desire for a grassroots-led movement and strict limits on central authority.
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YP members still want democracy
The promised regional assemblies for “Your Party” began from the weekend of 25 October. So far, each has followed a similar pattern: groups of about ten participants, each with a facilitator of…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
What all the Your Party assemblies have shown so far is a deep desire for a grassroots-led movement and strict limits on central authority.
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...
workersliberty.org/story/2025-1...