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    Women's Fightback #34, Summer 2025 — austerity, trans and reproductive rights, the fightback, and more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2025 188:41


    Women's Fightback #34, Summer 2025. Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist magazine by Workers' Liberty. We stand for trans-inclusive, sex-positive, class struggle feminism. We organise in our workplaces and trade unions, and in the student movement and Labour Party for socialist feminist politics. Get your copy now! https://workersliberty.org/wf The blunt truth is that things aren't getting better. Austerity continues in the UK and women are at the sharp end of it. The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex, and more substantively its interpretation in the hands of state and corporate institutions, is a major setback for the ability of trans people to live with dignity. The police have been instructed to seize the phones and search the homes of women who have late-term miscarriages, so that they might be prosecuted under a law from 1861. The manosphere is turning young men into activist misogynists. But the future is yet to be written. In this issue, we bring you news of these developments but we also set out what must be done – and what feminists, socialists, trade unionists, and trans rights activists are already doing – to push back. The battle lines run through our culture as well as our politics. So we also bring you reviews of a new stage play looking at Section 28, recipes from an incarcerated Iranian feminist, and much more. Articles: Pathways to poverty, women and the welfare state Death by a thousand cuts. A short history of getting less and needing more On the slogan 'Welfare not Warfare' Saving our domestic violence services After the Supreme Court: the fight for trans rights Trans rights: the fight in the unions We fight again: a brief history of trans rights in Britain After the Act and the new Section 28 Why we marched Lost Boys Pink-pilled Sex wars: why we stand for sex positive feminism Workers for decrim The weight of words Miscarriage? Still birth? Now the police will search your phone The Evin Prison Bakers' Club Sudanese women and the crisis of indifference The cult of patriarchy (and how to resist it) Women without kids Ella Keidar released from prison

    745 — Tax top wealth! | Labour leadership in trouble | PCS leaders fold | Bangladesh | Stalinism falls | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 5, 2025 152:07


    Solidarity 745, 4 June 2025. Articles: Tax the rich to fund social provision "Black flag" means an order you must disobey Academics in Israel oppose the war Anti-war movement in Israel stands firm Unions must move against Trump after 14 June Gaza: ceasefire now! Lambeth libraries vote for strikes Build on union-Labour revolt against benefit cuts! Denouncing Starmer for saying the same Islamists flex their muscles in Bangladesh The jewel in the “local independent” crown? How unions can defend trans people Letter: Everyone is male or female Khan challenges Starmer on cannabis Inflation in 2025? EHRC contradicts “free from harassment” Stormy days for Labour leadership “Not all Bengalis”: Bangladesh's highlands The revolutionary left 34 years after 1991 PKK to disband, but Kurdish rights doubtful Quiet conference, tense year ahead? PCS leaders fold on pay When it all goes wrong at once Marcel Ophuls (1927-2025) Planning next steps against the closures Nottingham strike steps up 9-13 June Our 31 May day school More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-745-4-june-2025

    744 — Stand with Ukraine | Aid for Gaza! Recognise Palestine now! | Trump & mass deportation | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 3, 2025 162:07


    Solidarity 744, 28 May 2025. Articles: Independent Labour Day in Singapore Care workers strike in Scotland Kneecap: drop the charges! After winter fuel u-turn: stop benefit cuts Birmingham bins need action to break deadlock Lambeth ballot closes 29 May Doctors ballot from 27 May Letter: Wrong on the Supreme Court Ignorant and cowardly: PCS leaders on trans rights Diary of a Tube driver: "£3k a month to look at the depot?" The origins of Militant and of the Socialist Party Great British National Strike: a flop, but a warning The Green Party: a home for socialists? This “anti-Zionism” is antisemitism MPs to debate decriminalising abortion We demand... what change? Condemned… for condemning Hamas Stop the war! Aid to Gaza! Recognise Palestine! Fight in the labour movement for trans rights Editorial: For Ukraine, and for Ukraine's workers! Mass deportations and 14 June Another imperialist denial of Ukraine 2025 inflation at 8% or more The 1944 coup attempt against Hitler The fall of "orthodox" illusions Mass council house-building needed More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-744-28-may-2025

    743 — Israel out of Gaza and the West Bank | For two states and equal rights |

    Play Episode Listen Later May 15, 2025 144:00


    Solidarity 743, 14 May 2025. Articles: We need care workers, not Starmer's demagogy Trump's road to economic chaos and autocracy Peace! Two states and equal rights! “Change is needed, and possible” The mask slips on Putin and Ukraine Turkish union's whole leadership arrested Step up fight on benefit cuts! Iran: against war, against nuclear weapons Unions can push back for trans rights Open borders! Migrant and local workers' unity Another version of Collective? Finland, the labour movement and women's rights Feminism, capitalism, and alienation The case for open borders International conference on 16-18 May Big vehicle-workers' strike in China GMB takes Amazon to court Against war over Kashmir The cavalry at Lifford Lane Why is this the court's problem? Setback in PCS election Disney's Bambi and the original Letter: Who torched the Reichstag? Stop cuts in NHS! Vindictiveness at University of East Anglia Universities continue cuts More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-743-14-may-2025

    742 — Tax the rich | Trump speeds power grab | Trans rights: defy the "guidance" | More

    Play Episode Listen Later May 9, 2025 152:54


    Solidarity 742, 7 May 2025. Articles: NASUWT General Secretary: an appointment masquerading as an election Against tariff wars, workers' unity "Scientifically illiterate ruling", say doctors The benefits of Brexit? Scrap the benefit cuts! Ukraine signs minerals deal with the US Students join university cuts fight Defy the EHRC non-guidance! Unions move to defend trans members Solidarity? No, you're just a proxy The dogs that didn't bark Unions are central to eco-policy Schools and the “guidance” documents Trump speeds power-grab Different roads to autocracy May Day in the USA Israel goes for “conquer” and “hold” Reform wins are a warning Workers' Liberty debates the year ahead How we can learn from history Kneecap and the right to offend Link pay battles across public sector The debates due at PCS conference Do the trial, or lose the money Leni Riefenstahl: Hitler's filmmaker MHCLG first wave is strong Support the bin workers! Yes, the HCSWs can win Uber drivers strike on 1 May More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-742-7-may-2025

    WL77 — Workers' Fight, 1972-5

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 31:29


    Workers' Fight newspaper ran during a time of great class battles in Britain, dramatic events internationally, and intense and fluid debate within the left. It was a time which made for vivid and weighty memories. Workers' Liberty volume 3, issue #77 looks back at it. https://workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/workers

    741 — Stop Trump reshaping the world | Fight for trans rights | Beat the cuts | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 24, 2025 193:32


    Solidarity 741, 23 April 2025. Articles: Their globalisation may be crashing, but ours must not 20,000 protest for trans rights! Israel pushes people to the coast in Gaza NEU conference votes to back Ukraine The Morning Star's Jewish problem What's happening with We Demand Change Make Unison act against benefit cuts! Having to travel for abortion Students back Sheffield University strike USA: has the pushback started? “No Kings”, 1775 and 2025 The realities of climate migration “Neither London nor Birmingham, but the bostin' Black Country!” How workers beat the Kapp putsch Li Dazhao, China's first communist The Bolsheviks and the syndicalists Vote for a fighting democratic union in PCS MHCLG striking from 22 April Wide support for hospital workers FM strikes pause for reballots G4S striker says: no two-tier system! How can he get away with it? Agnès Varda: a life in images Birmingham bin strikers reject new offer Nationalise steel! A workers' plan for green transition! Lambeth libraries to ballot from 30 April More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/index.php/publications/solidarity/solidarity-741-23-april-2025

    740 — Tariffs will bring inflation and slump: Open borders, rejoin the EU, workers' unity, against Trump

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2025 157:19


    Solidarity 740, 9 April 2025. Articles: Use referendum vote as launchpad for a fight for a four-day week on our terms The most drastic shift ever in capitalist world economics Unite to stop the cuts! Starvation and murder in Gaza Hurtling towards authoritarianism Full-spectrum response needed Fight back against university cuts Lambeth Unison against zero-hours The “traitor” and the Stalinist Lever, or “alternative labour movement”? Trump backs UK anti-abortionists Beating the benefit cuts Environment: a triple crisis Wait for a Moses? No, organise! Raid on Youth Demand meeting Germany seeks to deport protesters Decades of national revolt Unite: stop law cases, sort out scandal Ukraine: not a proxy war Poverty kills, austerity kills A week with Standing Together A strike before I was born shaped me "Workers'" candidate attacks Reform from right Hoping his own side will curb Trump The most popular cartoon character you've never seen Nottingham HCAs strike for pay Act now on Network Rail pay More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-740-9-april-2025

    739 — Organising can beat cuts: Form union-Labour committees | Reform | Ukraine | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 2, 2025 147:52


    Solidarity 739, 2 April 2025. Articles: Beating the benefit cuts 5 April action against Trump coup Threat from Reform on 1 May Will Trump become king? Resistance must be built Ceasefire! IDF out of West Bank and Gaza! Don't let Trump keep us off-kilter A useful idiot for the Morning Star Benefit cuts will hit women worst Discussing Europe-wide Ukraine solidarity Fifteen JSO people still in jail An engine that isn't driving A gap to fill on Labour left Lively conference, unclear plans French far right is not finished Myanmar: a crisis within a crisis Debate: From Myanmar to Ukraine A “frontlash” from neoliberalism Lenin and Joe Colombo Workers need party politics How Reeves painted Labour into a corner Listening to my friends argue about politics The world inside Facebook FM workers out again from 7 April Sheffield and Cardiff UCU vote for strikes Capita out again to 22 April Solidarity means learning fast When the Post exposed Nixon Strike vote in Rayner's department Birmingham bins on indefinite strike Lambeth Unison sets red lines More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-739-2-april-2025

    738 — Rally labour movement against Starmer: Stop the cuts. Don't cut us, tax the rich! | Turkey | USA | Unions | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 29, 2025 109:40


    Solidarity 738, 26 March 2025. Articles: Coup in the USA Tax top wealth, stop the cuts! A movement not a moment Restore ceasefire! Peace! Dumbing down America for dictatorship The Maga takeover in microcosm Defending Duterte... and Chinese “democracy” Israel has had enough of Netanyahu Women's TUC backs decriminalisation Free Mahrang Baloch! Free Balochistan! Draft constitution will not subdue fears in Syria Beyond EVs to eco-aware transport Street protests defy Turkey's clampdown Like People's Assembly, but not quite Fear and loathing in the Trump regime Scrap 50% rule now The cruelty of shrivelled souls Debate: Against cuts and against trashing Ukraine Lambeth ballots for anti-cuts strike Sheffield students vote to back UCU strikes Three schools reprieved in Isle of Wight When “agitation” contradicted propaganda Drop charges against the Drax 15! What resonated was socialist feminism Matt Wrack goes for Nasuwt job Unison: vote TFRC and build the grassroots! A Swedish classic: Wild Strawberries FM workers out again 7-13 April Teachers' pay: vote for strikes! GSTT cleaners can win RMT activists launch new network More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-738-26-march-2025

    737 — Trump tightens grip: Resistence is urgent | Stop the cuts! | Gaza | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 20, 2025 153:12


    Solidarity 737, 19 March 2025. Articles: Resistance is urgent Force Netanyahu to back down Stop the cuts! Stop cuts, tax top wealth Bulldozing from the rostrum Why to support increased defence spending Backlashes, then and now How to travel with fewer emissions Release Mahmoud Khalil! Stop the deportations “Scrap fiscal rules” is no quick fix Will the Morning Star row back? Bangladesh students launch new “centre” party Workers central in Belarus Justice for Ukraine, not a Trump-Putin deal How hidden doctrine swayed politics in the crisis Union action made socialism real Scrap 50% turnout rule now! Concede? Not before a fight The greatest detective of all time Solidarity with hard-pressed Ukraine! Isle of Wight schools ballot for strikes Facilities Management: be ready for re-ballots More online: https://workersliberty.org/index.php/publications/solidarity/solidarity-737-19-march-2025

    736 — Stop Trump's Oligarchy: For Ukraine, against Trump-Putin | Gaza | USA resistance | union rights | more

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 13, 2025 155:59


    Solidarity 736, 12 March 2025. Articles: Trump and Netanyahu push to restart war Block the cuts! Tax the rich! Against Putin-Trump! Ceasefire-protection troops in Ukraine? Stop Trump's oligarchy! Permanent ceasefire! Rebuild Gaza! No increase in military spending! Unhealthy enthusiasm for Wagenknecht Belarus: Time for solidarity against Putin Climate change feeds child marriages Sanctions on Syria increase poverty The evolution of Extinction Rebellion Sheffield holds anti-cuts referendum Film shows Israeli-Palestinian “co-resistance” How McSweeney made his coup Minerals deal? Stand with Ukrainian workers Former Polish political prisoners denounce Trump What was “militancy” in Northern Ireland in 1968-69? After Reform UK, the RCP's turn next? Gaining a real right to strike A new threat from H5N1 bird flu This “four day week” is no good PCS ballots in Rayner's department The best Australian film ever? FM strikes may restart NEU strike against victimisation A lot more online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-736-12-march-2025

    Women's Fightback 33 — Trump, Putin's Russia, Israel/Palestine, the "manosphere" and alt-right, culture & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2025 192:25


    Women's Fightback 33, Winter/Spring 2025. With Trump back in office, and the far right ascendant across large partsof the world, the challenges facing socialists and feminists are starker than ever. In this issue we hear about the fight for democracy in Putin's Russia, from a military refuser in Israel building the opposition to the occupation of Palestine, and about socialists in the US trying to reorient and rebuild. We explore the 'manosphere' and the alt-right pipeline radicalising young men in the UK, the impact that pornography is having on our sexual horizons, and much more besides – with our usual mix of history, culture, and poetry. Enjoy! Articles: Trump's New World Order Gregg Wallace Building an independent socialist left Organise with us for abortion rights Israel's "fucked generation" takes on the occupation Poland's war on women Trying to make power out of hatred and destruction Dispatches from Ukraine The Manosphere Exposing the realities of pornography Un Violador en tu Camino (A rapist in your path) Trans Strike Back! All Fours The labour of care Organising barmaids and acrobats Acts of creation Hotel Lux More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/wf

    735 — Stop Trump's coup in USA: Back Ukraine against Putin-Trump | Report from Kyiv | Far right

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 27, 2025 141:25


    Solidarity 735, 26 February 2025. Articles: Against the Trump-Putin carve up of Ukraine! Save and complete the ceasefire Stop Trump's coup in USA Day of action, but fightback needs more Israel out of the West Bank! Having a laugh about Ukraine “Only peace will bring security” Chemicals that pollute forever Trump, Queensland, and apathy Marx and Engels on the German elections The resurgence of “Blue Labour” An “existential threat” from Trump “Contracted-out” campaigns will not beat Reform Far-right and left gains in German poll Ukraine's unions need our support Make Ukraine pay for “left” posturing? Debating Ukraine and Israel-Palestine Privatised water is an organised rip-off More on Bob Dylan Fund transport by taxing the wealthy A compromise on refresher training Letter: Dimensions of the gender gaps The Scopes trial: issues then and now Stop the cuts, use reserves Lambeth Unison moves against cuts Capita strike from 26 February More: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-735-26-february-2025

    WL76 — Day-by-day, How the state broke down in Northern Ireland, 1969

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 23, 2025 83:22


    Day-by-day, how the state broke down in Northern Ireland, 1969: Workers' Liberty 3/76. By Sean Matgamna. More online: https://workersliberty.org/day-day-how-state-broke-down-northern-ireland-1969-workers-liberty-376

    734 — Stand with Ukraine! | Israel/Palestine: Peace, Two States, Equal Rights | Congo | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 21, 2025 69:21


    Solidarity 734, 19 February 2025. This paper came with WL 3/76, which will be uploaded as a separate audio. Articles: Trump prepares disaster for Ukraine Peace, two states, equal rights! Stop the anti-migrant drive! Campaign for free movement The West Bank is burning The “domestic labour debate” of 1960s and 70s Praising Trump on USAid and Ukraine Munich 2025: Return of the “Guilty Men” Solace workers win a pause 80 years after the liberation of Auschwitz Letter: Strike call was too casual Letters: General strike, US coup d'état, BSW is good Behind the conflict in DR Congo Sheffield students ramp up anti-cuts effort Trump nixes worker rights watchdog Stop Rosebank! Replace fossil fuels now More on Bob Dylan More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-734-19-february-2025

    733 — A world reshaped by Trump? Resist! | Left in PCS | French left | Feminism, ecology, more

    Play Episode Listen Later Feb 13, 2025 146:16


    Solidarity 733, 12 February 2025. Articles: A world reshaped by Trump? Resist! Gaza: threat of return to war Resisting the far right in Germany Why defend bourgeois democracy? Reinstate the other three! Trump plan boosts Israeli far right Carbon-capture: the future and now US federal workers set action for 19 February Debate: A general strike to stop Trump Galloway, the Tates, and the far right Goma's nightmare and global capitalism Serbia: rebuild from scratch? Wages for housework is no answer What the workers wrote in Lenin's day Sheffield anti-cuts fight accelerates Letter: We shouldn't be deferential Letter: How to restrain flights An about-turn in RS21 Transphobia and the Women's March From Sheffield to Stuttgart to Bolton Letter: “Dozens of activities” in Gaza A new pole on the French far left More on Bob Dylan Another film from Norway Going to the brink isn't enough Left challenge in PCS election Drive planned against council cuts Capita strikes for pay More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-733-12-february-2025

    732 — Unis, NHS, councils, schools: Cuts! Fight back! Tax top wealth! | & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 30, 2025 156:12


    Solidarity 732, 29 January 2025. Articles: Fight back! Tax top wealth! Complete the ceasefires! Peace, two states! Trump says evict Gazans Trump restored: Heil to the Chief? New wave of cuts at universities The West Bank is burning Morning Star: still backing Yakoob? McKinley: Trump's favourite President Cuts threaten help for abuse victims Do some leftists not want ceasefires to stick? Build alternatives to airport growth More on Bob Dylan Not just “PEM” tinkering: reverse Brexit! Owen Jones forgets about Salma Kaddouni “Left-populist” line in Germany is not so left Was Stalinism ever a step forward? Northern Ireland from October 1968 to August 1969 Inequality not our fault, but the system Letter: Shouldn't have printed Biden warning When we were sued and heresy-hunted Why they joined the Tube Two anti-fascist films from Norway Troublemakers At Work first AGM PCS to reballot in Facility Management disputes FBU: open rank-and-file network needed How Northern Ireland broke down in 1968-69 More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-732-29-january-2025

    731 — Peace! Two states! After ceasefire, workers' unity for equal rights, aid to rebuild Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 22, 2025 151:25


    Solidarity 731, 22 January 2025. Articles: RMT general secretary election: contest needed! Complete the ceasefire! Release fire engine for West Bank Economic impasse? Tax the rich, rebuild the NHS! Women march against misogyny Back Ukrainian workers! Back Ukraine! French far-left meets in tense times Is ceasefire “victory for the Palestinians”? Bob Dylan and the Stalinists Free those arrested on 18 January! Was Assad's Syria a “workers' state”? Carbon capture: not an answer, but part of it How a complete unknown became Bob Dylan Trump's oligarchic power-grab Warnings from Biden and Eisenhower The other side of Rabochaya Mysl How Northern Ireland broke down in 1968-9 How Labour was a path to socialism for me The WRP and embarrassing fiction Help us raise £20,000 by our 2025 Summer Camp! Chatting in the cab Nosferatu: A Symphony of Horror Serbia's oligarchy shaken by protests More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-731-22-january-2025

    730 — Stop Trump and Musk! Mobilise labour movement to fight the far right | & Much more

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 16, 2025 154:33


    Solidarity 730, 15 January 2025. Articles include: Reshape the left to beat the far right! Gaza: stop now! Ceasefire, peace, equal rights “Local” and “independent” is no socialist answer Climate change behind LA fires Back the anti-war protests inside Israel! Musk? Farage? Really it's all about Jeremy In unity is strength (maybe) Why cosmetic surgery is booming Can strikes shift the president? Analysing the fall of Assad Debate: No, socialism is not austerity Is "tax the rich" demagogic? Palestine: lessons from history The first Irish left If you care, then overthrow capitalism Politics can help win this strike The “old evils” are still around Solidarity meeting defies boycott calls The Day of the Jackal mark 2 Thanks for all the chats? Higher Education: pay and the financial crisis PCS: face up to austerity prospects Make “ruthless” the word for the fightback Paris, and other atrocities Feeling your appearance is not normal is increasingly normal More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-730-15-january-2025

    729 — Stop new horror in Gaza: Ceasefire! Peace! Equal rights! | NHS | Syria | Ukraine | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Jan 10, 2025 156:12


    Solidarity 729, 8 January 2025. Articles: NHS: funding, not “fix-its”! Social care needs public ownership and decent pay Ukraine: new threat posed by Trump Musk, Kickl, Farage, and the rest The kickback from tick-box feminism Stop new horror in Gaza! End the cycle of war! HTS's win in Syria: a plan made up by Israel? Who rules Georgia? Ivanishvili? Trump threatens the neighbours The opposite of the promises On the sidelines, or inside? Socialist Alternative: a split, but going where? Syria: stirrings against HTS A year of trying to stop arms for Ukraine How the left has used Connolly Korea: then as farce Debate: Blame capitalist production, not working class consumption When we have hours in the mess room Back Andrea Egan in Unison! Compassion put into action More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-729-8-january-2025

    We Stand For Workers Liberty — Pamphlet audio

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 21, 2024 55:59


    Workers' Liberty is a socialist organisation. Our members are active in workplaces, Uni campuses, trade unions, the Labour Party, and left politics. We think it is possible to replace capitalism with a better society — socialism. We think that the people who can do this are the working class. This pamphlet sets out what we think, what we do, and what makes us different from other political groups and NGOs. It tells you what is involved with being a member. Order, see contents, and download PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wsfwl

    728 — Left response 2 far-right threat: Unity in action where agreed, honest debate where not

    Play Episode Listen Later Dec 6, 2024 155:30


    Solidarity 728, 4 December 2024. Articles: Unity: an open letter to the left Respite in Lebanon? Ruin in Gaza Peace! Two states! Equal rights! “Third World War” hysteria and Ukraine Renewed wave of protests in Georgia Misogyny and the rise of the far right Sheffield organises against far right Care workers demand big pay rise in 2025 Trump's USA: “there's going to be a lot of conflict” Far-right threat rises in France The Earth and limits to consumption Germany gives us a warning Anti-war protest still simmers in Russia Ireland heads for new FF-FG coalition The ups and downs of capitalism and of struggle Debate: Resurgent sexism and the 1968 precedent Why SWP looks two ways on Zionism Trump 2: chaos and corruption on steroids Debate: How to counter the “crazy ones” Behind the fall of Aleppo Farmers' struggles in the USA Vote Wrack in the FBU! Facility Management strikes to continue into 2025 Councils: rebuild our services! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-728-4-december-2024

    727 — For Ukraine against Putin | Israel/Palestine | HK45 | Strikes | Assisted dying | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 27, 2024 138:58


    Solidarity 727, 27 November 2024. Articles: Ukraine is in danger Link with anti-war movement in Israel-Palestine! “The word to describe it is hope” Gaza: worse by the day Free the Hong Kong 45! Stalinists back Trump on Ukraine Anti-Trump march set for 18 January Only a revived workers' movement can break climate impasse World leaders unite for workers rights? No From rage to organising A push-pull of capitalism Trump? Never mind, capitalist crisis will radicalise China, chimney of the world Behind the Assisted Dying Bill Sixth-form teachers strike on pay Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century What will the resistance look like? Trump hardens his plans Debate: How the “crazy ones” win Far-right surge in Romania How Stalin starved Ukraine in 1932-33 Manchester police harass Travellers Driving in bad weather The Grapes of Wrath Speak out against Mayos! PCS: stirrings at the base More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-727-27-november-2024

    726 — Trump win is an emergency | NHS vs league tables | Religion & abuse | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 21, 2024 154:40


    Solidarity 726, 20 November 2024. Articles: Gaza: Ceasefire! Aid! Back the anti-war left in Israel! Horror in Gaza Netanyahu's dirty politics Building united fronts against Trump United Electrical Workers respond to Trump victory Some lessons on left unity Morning Star says a “Jew hunt” is not antisemitic Georgia's future depends on us How religion served child abuse League tables will harm the NHS Protest against HK jailings Incineration worse than landfill US election: pick your issue? Housing squeeze behind Irish election Need to lift union horizons Living in a Material World The ripples spread from 5 November Take on corporate greed Response? Join up! Debate: Two comments on the US election Reflections on the US election Marx against "bread and religion socialism" Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century A major blow, and why? Overtime and home ownership I'm Spartacus! No, I'm Spartacus!… Fighting for rights at eCourier Off-key on identity politics More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-726-20-november-2024

    725 — Trump win boosts far-right: Back civil resistance in US; Unite the left for socialist policies

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 13, 2024 159:39


    Solidarity 725, 13 November 2024. Articles: After Trump's win, unite the left! Trump wins: redouble solidarity! Building a “critical mass” of protest Call PCS leaders to account Trump's victory hangs over Ukraine Solidarity with Ukraine's schools Will AI go bust? Fight university cuts, abolish fees The working class in the Blitz Referendums win despite Trump Trump, euphoria, and resistance From Third Period to Popular Front? “After Trump, it will be our turn next”? Resisting Trump: a symposium Debate: Employment Bill: a big opportunity Tube pay: not so “groundbreaking” Young Mr Lincoln More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-725-13-november-2024

    724 — Reverse the cuts! Councils, schools, unis, benefits | Defend US left, labour, minorities

    Play Episode Listen Later Nov 6, 2024 129:27


    Solidarity 724, 6 November 2024. Articles: After the Reeves £40bn, anti-cuts fight still needed Defend democracy! Defend the US left, labour movement and minorities! Stop the school closures! RMT wrong to call off Tube strike Stop Gaza starving! Spain highlights climate emergency Nothing to fear from Trump? Georgians want democracy and a European future Reeves freezes ceiling on rent help Will Badenoch scare Starmer? Acquittal shows protest can work SOAS: defend the right to protest! Prices revolt in Martinique “Government of death” imposes social cuts Thousands of political prisoners in India Resist Israel's ban on Unrwa! One press of a button, 100 killed Debate: The US left after 5 November Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century If Trump is beaten, it'll be thanks to women Debate: Why not a pick-and-choose line? The new RCP: a garbled return of old ideas Sanctions vs solidarity Don't taint Palestinian cause with conspiracy thinking Betty Boop for President G4S workers strike against “two tiers” Support the eCourier strikes No cuts at University of Sheffield! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-724-6-november-2024

    723 — It's a bosses' budget: Fight for workers' budgets! | Water | Sudan | Trump | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 30, 2024 137:55


    Solidarity 723, 30 October 2024. Articles: Stop the war! Two states! What would be a workers' Budget? Ceasefire now! Civil service: fight “60%” rule After 26 October, organise against far right Support self-determination for Taiwan! A counterproductive protest Putin's victory, Georgia's nightmare Socialist answers on domestic violence Sheffield university seeks cuts for £54m shortfall Water: public ownership, not “proper prices” Over 40 now jailed for protests Two million may starve in Sudan Solidarity, not cultural boycott Abolish these indefinite sentences! Debate: His own Chief of Staff calls Trump “fascist” Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century Disinformation is the fifth horseman Stop Trump, build working-class politics Debate: How to vote in the “safe” states Polish left party splits Debate: Off-beam on “Lady of Heaven” How to gauge who you trust Rebuild NHS, roll back contracting-out Foreign “accents” in films Tube pay: a small shift by bosses More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-723-30-october-2024

    722 — Squeeze the millionaries: Make Labour tax rich to rebuild services | Gaza | Racism | Cass

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 24, 2024 136:24


    Solidarity 722, 23 October 2024. Articles: Squeeze the millionaires! Gaza is starving March against racism on 26 October! Employment Bill is too weak Justice and Chris Kaba Confusion about investment and divestment Gaza: end the war Israel out of Lebanon! Building solidarity and hope Evolution Gaming: this strike matters Are there no rights to defend in the USA? New laws and domestic abuse Transition call taken to Treasury Grangemouth: public ownership! Campaign prospects in Higher Education Howard Beckett: now what will his backers say? David Miller not vindicated Dangers in the Cass Report Blasphemy rights are human rights Forerunners of socialism in the early nineteenth century Even more modern times Fight the PCS clampdown! Different shifts, different worlds A “gun control” film Support Tube workers' pay strikes Scottish school workers strike on pay Overground, Liz Line, DLR, Trams: End privatisation! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-722-23-october-2024

    721 — Peace: Ceasefire! Israel out of Lebanon! An independent Palestine alongside Israel! | & more

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 17, 2024 154:06


    Solidarity 721, 16 October 2024. Articles: Ceasefire, peace, two states Israel out of Lebanon! Take from the rich, rebuild society Some positives, but not good enough Anti-government protests in Israel Food and medical supplies worse in Gaza One year on from 7 October Socialist Worker returns to “Cairo” line Rape courts and half-measures Turkey's drive against Kurds: and now talks? Free movement campaign makes new plans Stop victimisation of Madeleine Norman Marx and Engels on Ireland Putin grinds on despite losses Debate: If Trump wins the Electoral College, will the Democrats fight? Big firefighters' rally pressures Labour to rebuild service PCS passive over cuts drive Settle for the minimum? "Aviation workers must grasp the future" More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-721-16-october-2024

    720 — Equal rights: The way to peace in the Middle East | McSweeney | Unis | History | Debate | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 10, 2024 152:06


    Solidarity 720, 9 October 2024. Articles include: Home is where the heartache is Their wealth, our poverty Students face campus clampdowns Chagos deal is a sell-out Halt the spreading war! Standing Together after a year of war Trump and Huey Long If Trump wins, this is why Stop Gaza-Lebanon horror! Ceasefire, peace! Israel's religious right pushes on gender RCP sees history on its side against Ukraine Ukraine rescue appeal Downside of the datacentre bubble Debate: A reply on Austro-fascism The Irish hunger strikes of 1981 Out against racism and fascism on 26 October The upsides of disruption Morgan McSweeney and non-politics Trump xenophobia goes into overdrive A failed would-be masterpiece Union officials should be on workers' wages Political pressure can help win Ealing dispute More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-720-9-october-2024

    719 — For the rich: £600bn; For NHS, councils, unis: Zero | Sri Lanka | Labour | Middle east | More

    Play Episode Listen Later Oct 2, 2024 151:31


    Solidarity 719, 2 October 2024. Articles include most of: The dangers now in Sri Lanka Asylum: defeat the “Meloni model” Kino Eye: Forty years since Threads Far-right surge in Austria Ukraine: a changing "analysis" Legal challenges to rats, mould, damp, high rents Kyaw Nyein and the "Third Camp" Free Phoebe and Anna! Solidarity with Haifa students Direct funding, not tuition fees! Scale down jails, end migrant detention “Mobilised literature” in Tbilisi £600 billion, the NHS, and the big picture Parking workers remain determined Debate: "Austro-fascism" was not fascist Gaza, Lebanon, Israel: Ceasefire! Peace with justice! Rejoin EU: the polls and the marches Labour council pushes through victimisation Frederic Jameson, 1934-2024 Singham's man at the Morning Star Offers accepted, but we must renew our fights Diary of a Tube driver: Back to pen and paper Labour: uphill but with footholds Ceasefire, not regional war! Grenfell Tower fire was an indictment of capitalism Labour's environmental vacuum Starmer, Odger, Bevan, and freebies Thousands of jobs go in steel TUC Congress: left-wing motions, deference to Starmer New French prime minister depends on RN favour Cammell Laird 37: The fight for justice continues How will work be better under socialism? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-719-2-october-2024

    WF 32 Autumn/Winter '24 — Labour in Power: What next? | Culture | Abortion | Trans rights | World

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 30, 2024 141:08


    Women's Fightback 32, Autumn-Winter 2024. Inside: Labour in Power: What Next? — Editorial Pride in Labour? — An interview with Max O'Hara & Sacha Marten Labour Won't Save the NHS — Elaine Jones Justice for Justine & Jay — Jesse Michaels Slip — An Interview with Amelia Loulli Abortion is Healthcare: demo report — Sabrina Rahma Duale Free Speech and Abortion — An Interview with Greta Kaur-Taylor A Sigh of Relief – But for How Long? — Betty Allen Dispatches from the French Left — Marine Azua The Strike Against Apartheid — Lizzy Brooks Poetry: The Silent War — Sarah Pritchard Review: Uncertain Futures — Dominika Szarek Review: Judy Chicago — Jill Mountford Imane Khelif: Sport & Transphobia — Natalia Cassidy The bastards are out. After 14 years of Tory rule, this edition of Women's Fightback is brought to you under a Labour government. It is crucial that feminists and socialists think clearly about this new political reality, and that a real debate opens up about what our strategy should be. Our lead piece surveys the situation and sets out a rudimentary programme, and we continue the theme with a deep- dive into Labour's NHS policy. We also carry coverage of Labour's slide on LGBT rights, and some shocking union-busting by a Labour Council. As always, we also bring you a mix of history, culture and internationalism. We have first-hand reports from the US election and the French left, as well as the history of an anti-apartheid strike. We review a poetry anthology and some feminist art exhibitions. And we re-tell the story of a bizarre transphobic witch-hunt against a cisgender gold-medallist at the summer Olympics. We hope you enjoy it. More online: https://workersliberty.org/wf

    718 — Banks, Billions, and profits: Rebuilt NHS! We can't afford capitalism | + Much more

    Play Episode Listen Later Sep 5, 2024 238:20


    Solidarity 718, 4 September 2024. Articles include: Debate: Labour Party story is more complex Socialist Worker accepts Maduro's rigged poll figures TOCs drivers' dispute: offer is progress, but it's still a pay cut - we can win more! Banks, billions, and profits Threat rises of wider war General strike in Israel demands ceasefire deal Morning Star doesn't support its own comrades in Venezuela Ukraine can still win this war Fight the far right with socialist policies Afghan women sing against new laws Drop charges against Drax camp organisers! Flixborough and workplace safety Labour in Liverpool, 21-25 September Nurses strike in Iran What next in Bangladesh? Stop university cuts: run universities as a public service One-word judgements to go? Ofsted needs to go too! How official Russia sees its war Luxembourg battles over far-right backed homophobic initiative Ukraine in the unions Against left antisemitism in the antifascist counterdemos! Ukraine still at great risk Plans, initiative, intervention, not "tailism" Answering the questions: Labour against Trump Debate: Biden and lesser-evilism Debate: Trump - speak out about what is A political portrait of Trumpism Trump in the Bunker How the left looked to me Debate: Disconnected criticisms and Connolly The bourgeois economists learn. And us? Diary of a Tube driver: Is retiring a "bad idea?" Do the Right Thing PCS democracy under attack Lewisham Unison ballots over union-busting More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-718-4-september-2024

    717 — Tax the millionaires: left policies needed against far right | Debate, work & global news +

    Play Episode Listen Later Aug 9, 2024 159:15


    Solidarity 717, 7 August 2024. Articles: Threat from the far right Defend the people targeted by far right! Yes, peace! Stop Israel-Iran-Hezbollah war! Drax: for a workers' audit! Palestinian-Jewish movement starts new peace drive Serbia: Stop union-busting at Yura Morning Star praises Farage on Ukraine Iran: arrested for singing Labour: uphill fight to September conference Prisoner swap and its costs Trans rights revolt against Streeting Letter: Reclaim the Power vs XR? Not really Starmer praises far-right Meloni on asylum The Trump vote conundrum Rachel Reeves and the £22 billion gap Vance renews anti-union drive We are not just the "best builders" Call for a workers' party, not Biden or Harris Review: The Easter Rising and Irish History Caricaturing the Third Period Venezuela: Maduro clings to power Defend and use free speech on campus Years in jail for a Zoom call Do Tube drivers care? Kino Eye: Chariots of Fire Learn from the junior doctors! Support Jay and Justine against victimisation Labour accepts teachers' pay recommendation - what now? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-717-7-august-2024

    716 — Labour in office; don't wait: demand! Rebuild NHS & services, Tax Rich, Scrap anti-union laws

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 19, 2024 237:49


    Solidarity 716, 17 July 2024. Articles include: Don't wait on Starmer, demand! What a workers' government would do Let Gaza live! Peace, two states Making an equal future Confused right up to election day Why was Leicester different on 4 July? Iran: regime retrenches French left debates options after 7 July Trump picks hardline VP Looking for a new opposition bloc Which way will Jeremy Corbyn turn? SOAS seeks to overturn student union elections A fraught future in India, too Putin wars against Ukraine's civilians There is a “Magic Money Tree” Sickness at work: think “collective” first DSA discredits itself by nixing AOC The legacy of “anti-vax” The man with a thousand kids Air pollution causes early deaths Anti-gay laws in Burkina Faso Why the battle of ideas is central Debate: Electoral challenges part of the mix The New York teachers' strike of 1968 The decade of the conundrum Debate: What is the MAGA revolution? Debate: The Trump threat Junior doctors still need solidarity A debate on patriotism Showing who's boss Tina Roe Requiem for the 1930s Popular Front Reignite the Justine campaign! Tata: keep unions on alert GMB battle at Amazon Shipyard workers win About being a Swifty More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-716-17-july-2024

    715 — After the election organise the left: insist on Labour's pledges; Fight to restore NHS

    Play Episode Listen Later Jul 12, 2024 163:01


    Solidarity 715, 10 July 2024. Articles include: After the election: organise for chaotic times A good moment, but a fraught future Gaza: ceasefire still urgent Incoherence and a dash of Lenin Conference rallies growing opposition in Israel The "exemplary" soldier and the woman beaten unconscious Police make pre-emptive JSO arrests Labour's Scottish gains are fragile Crash council-house programme needed Did Labour win on 4 July? Tata: unions must stay on alert Kino Eye: A Very English Scandal The far right in Germany: the AfD What Is To Be Done: a vital text, not a blueprint for bureaucracy Right-wing judges license Trump coups Biden: downplaying the “evil” in “lesser evil” We can't evade 4 November The roots of the contemporary far right GMB ballots at Amazon BHX4 SOAS student co-president faces expulsion threat Reclaim the Power organises for Drax climate camp New money for the junior doctors! PCS faces difficult fight on pay restoration Justine campaign scores a win “A Monroe Doctrine for Labour”: The AFL's position during the Mexican Revolution Cammell Laird workers defy anti-strike laws to show solidarity More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-715-10-july-2024

    714 — For Labour against Starmer: Organise left in the labour movement | Housing | Ukraine | History

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 27, 2024 139:27


    Solidarity 714, 26 June 2024. Articles include: Vote Labour, but fight for a workers' government Gaza, Lebanon-Israel: Ceasefire now! France: action committees, not people's front? Support the junior doctors! Housing and the socialist future Challenge Labour on housing Why we say “two states” Yakoob and his jokes about domestic violence Obvious lies used for Ukraine debate Women's protests against Le Pen “Fare free” works, but isn't enough Trump and the Teamsters Manifesto is a disgrace on disability Free JSO activists! Assange freed at last The turning points in July 1984 Ukraine: the national question cannot be bypassed Debate: Trumpite rollback is already happening Letter: Sanders, Trump, Biden, and DSA Letter: Starmer fails the litmus test Beware excessive or narrow realpolitik Glasgow marches against school cuts Hard line from Scottish FE colleges Barts workers win new offer Taking over the docks “There was talk of striking” Steel strike from 8 July GMB in run-up to Amazon ballot More left-wing young delegates at Unison More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-714-26-june-2024

    713 — Socialise energy: Green conversion; green jobs. Labour's plan is weak. Demand more.

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 19, 2024 140:20


    Solidarity 713, 19 June 2024. Articles: Socialise energy! Green conversion! The resources are there Fighting for a workers' government Vote Labour everywhere Electrify transport and industry Ceasefire now! Let Gaza live! Far-right danger in France Peace, two states, solidarity! Brexit and “repetition compulsion” France: a new Popular Front is born New mood at Unison conference Demand an Orgreave inquiry University bosses move against Gaza camps When it's too hot to work Letter: Lack of foresight and imagination Debate: Sanders and rightward drift Vote Labour but fight for a workers' government Fascist attack in Budapest Labour conference The Russian Marxists: where they began in building a party Parliaments, wealth, and workers' councils Debate: Fight the Trumpite counter-revolution Industrial action on steel jobs The time I got sacked A story of early 20th century Vienna Labour: pay the junior doctors! Belated but welcome unity Goldsmiths on two-week strike More online: https://workersliberty.org/solidarity-713-19-june-2024

    712 — Win union and workers rights: Vote Labour but fight for a workers' government | Sudan | Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 13, 2024 145:11


    Solidarity 712, 12 June 2024. Articles: Win worker rights! For Labour, against Starmer! Cease fire, two states, equal rights! For unilateral nuclear disarmament For open borders and free movement! Trade unionists rally against Justine Canady sacking Tata uses bully tactics Union protests? Good, but should be better Ceasefire in Gaza; stop Israel-Hezbollah war! Standing Together against “Flag Day” march Galloway's man at the CPB For net zero, take over the banks! What we mean by “left-wing” and “socialist” Abuse in Chechnya rises with war Brighton Kemptown: fight back for democracy Student Gaza camps hold out EU elections: The vaccine no longer works Snap election in France on 30 June A new far-right street danger Nine million displaced in Sudan Ukrainian national rights against the Kremlin D-Day and why we fight capitalism even when it is 'progressive' Debate: Don't understate danger from Trump The far left and the general election on 4 July A preview of Unison conference Debate: Well-organised, but for what? WPB shown up by scandals Dementia care: there must be a better way A film about end of World War 2 Walk-out rallies workers for ballot Union hierarchy blocks new Exec majority Goldsmiths strike starts 17 June More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-712-12-june-2024

    711 — Tax the Rich, Rebuild the NHS: For Labour, Against Starmer | Blairism | Trotsky/Ukraine | Gaza

    Play Episode Listen Later Jun 6, 2024 147:06


    Solidarity 711, 5 June 2024. Articles: Doctors will strike from 27 June Vote Labour but fight for a workers' government Ceasefire now, aid, peace. Two states, equal rights. They make Tony Blair look like a pluralist Stop the victimisation of Justine Canady! End the horrors in Gaza! Sabreen Msarwi reinstated The “TikTok lawyer” and misogyny The ILO and Russia: choose sides Just one working hospital remains in Rafah Free the Hong Kong 47! A true story from a hotter world The far right mobilises in London A call from France for solidarity, against antisemitism Student camps face threats Trotsky's call for independent Ukraine Debate: Omissions about the Democrats Bernie Sanders on Gaza, Biden, and Trump Workers' Liberty on 4 November Why there are Congo protests in London How wealth warps democracy under the capitalist system Labour's “New Deal”: a terrain of struggle Scottish FE campaign steps up Sharp talk then a letdown Kino Eye: An early film about transition Steel: Unite promises escalation UCU congress: a mixed bag Workers' Liberty at LO fete 2024 More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-711-5-june-2024

    710 — Vote Labour but fight for a Workers' Government | No to Yakoob & Galloway | Ideas for Freedom

    Play Episode Listen Later May 31, 2024 155:24


    Solidarity 710, 29 May 2024. Articles: Vote Labour and organise! Why we say vote Labour everywhere Let Gaza live! Two states! Equal rights! Solidarity with workers in China! Defend Sabreen Msarwi! Ukraine is hard-pressed but defiant After defeating Rwanda plan, win free movement The pachyderm in the room The Zinoviev Letter after 100 years Keep abortion rights on the agenda! Georgia resists ban on “foreign influence” Yes to 22 June, but turn to workers Behind the blood scandal: profit, hierarchy, prejudice Open up debate in student camps! Student camps are still on Yakoob, Galloway, and the “independents” The working class as basis for socialism Trump as a rebel The road to Bolshevism: Ulyanov and Russian Marxists' “second generation” Left gains at PCS conference Review, bulletins, and boycotts Aslef backs Standing Together Kino Eye: The worst “McCarthyite film” ever? Tata: delay is dangerous Reinstate Nigerian students in Teesside! UCU will debate Ukraine and Gaza More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-710-29-may-2024

    Women's Fightback 31 — No births behind bars | Abolition | Sari Squad | Refuseniks | Sudan | Butler

    Play Episode Listen Later May 23, 2024 179:14


    Women's Fightback 31, Spring/Summer 2024. The thread running through this edition of Women's Fightback is the state, and its capacity to coerce, oppress and harm. The prison system is a rough place at the best of times. But for pregnant women it is a living nightmare, and for newborns it can be deadly. Criminalisation is threatening our reproductive rights like never before. In Israel, state repression is unleashed on opponents of atrocities being committed in Gaza and teenagers refusing to serve in the military. In response to these attacks, we discuss abolitionism, and explore the debate over how the left engages with public sector workers who are, willingly or not, a part of the state machine. We also bring you reports of the fight against sexism in the trade union movement; a story of anti-racist organising in the 1980s; reviews of feminist films and art exhibitions; and plenty of international reports and analysis from Belarus, Sudan, Ireland, Iran and more. Beyond that, you will find a wealth of cultural criticism; an exhibition on feminist revolt; tales of Unwell Women and Genoa's trans outcasts of the 1960s; dispatches from Mexico's struggle for abortion rights and the fight for democracy in Hong Kong; feminist dissidents in Belarus, and much more. We hope you enjoy it! Article list: No Births Behind Bars The socialist case for abolition Soft cops or class fighters? #meTU Sexism in the unions Who's afraid of gender? Ireland's lost referenda A labour of love Taking on the racists — the legendary Sari Squad Poetry: Poke your woke A new chance for abortion liberalisation in Germany? Decriminalise abortion now! Belarusian dissidents face prison Refusing to serve Letters from prison In defence of Standing Together How do you solve a problem like Iranian women? The case of Sepideh Qolian War in Sudan one year on Acts of resistance With Women, We Exist Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist magazine by Workers' Liberty. We stand for trans-inclusive, sex-positive, class struggle feminism. We organise in our workplaces and trade unions, and in the student movement and Labour Party for socialist feminist politics. Get your copy now!

    709 — How to change politics: Turn round the labour movement | Abortion vote | Georgia | Amazon +

    Play Episode Listen Later May 16, 2024 163:10


    Solidarity 709, 15 May 2024. Articles include: How to change politics Big anti-war protest in Israel Stop Rwanda scheme! Open safe routes for asylum Chance for a new start in PCS Rafah on brink of massacre Yes, Elphicke too right-wing. What about Galloway? Nakba Day: it's a bit more complicated 15 May: no, nations do not have hereditary guilt 15 May votes on abortion access The tragedy of capitalist fishing Ireland and Algeria: another reply to John McAnulty Palestinian workers organising in West Bank Union gears up for Amazon recognition ballot The Punisher, Trump, and Carl Schmitt Georgia: Four million people, 200,000 protesters! “Social movements” instead of working class? “Working from home” and unionism Steel unions plan to strike Kino Eye: Fate of a “friend of Stalin” Don't reject the IHRA definition Student protest camps spread Khan re-elected: now push him to act! End the scab-bassador scheme! Nottingham campaign steps up The road to Bolshevism: Adding agitation to education More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-709-15-may-2024

    708 — Restore and extend free movement: stop deportations; win asylum rights [Corrected]

    Play Episode Listen Later May 10, 2024 167:38


    Solidarity 708, 8 May 2024. There were two mistakes in the original reading of this paper which have now been corrected. It has been corrected to say that Putin's "most vociferous supporters are the far-right in *Europe* and America", and that "human rights and pro-democracy work... *enrages* the homophobic, authoritarian Georgian Dream party." Articles: Why we call for peace Restore and extend free movement Stop Rafah assault! Let Gaza live! Solidarity and links, not boycott New Putin offensive looms in Ukraine After 2 May: shape what's next Protests in Israel demand ceasefire now Hamas, two states, and the way to equal rights A “slight bit of truth” and Odesa Georgia at a crossroads Petro-dollars versus equality and rights US campuses defy police repression Protest camps spread across Britain Climate adaptation: lessons from Covid Assailing workers' rights rather than sickness Rochdale result: a Galloway flop Humza Yousaf resigns as Scottish First Minister A tale of three RCPs The Carnation Revolution remembered From revolution to “stabilising” coup The road to Bolshevism: Adding agitation to education CWU: dragging back what was lost Upbeat after our conference Emancipation: why the working class? Mick Cash: another place-holder Barnet Unison Kino Eye: The Gulag on film Stop the Tories' Rwanda clampdown! University unions edge towards action Doctors to strike in Northern Ireland More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-708-8-may-2024

    707 — Democratic control to green the economy | Stop Rwanda plans! | Culture wars & Galloway

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 25, 2024 156:23


    Solidarity 707, 24 April 2024. Articles include: To green economic life: democracy! Israel-Iran: against war! Trump's trial and a UAW victory Reverse the Brexit fiasco! Nottingham plans anti-cuts May Day Iranian left: “This is not our war” Ceasefire, peace, two states! Terror in West Bank Galloway and “unnecessary culture wars” Free speech even for the odious! Germany: push against 1871 abortion law Scottish Labour passive as SNP declines Third Period, First Republic, and symbols The climate and Memorial Day Stop the Rwanda scheme! National Union of Students conference: an undemocratic shambles The what, who, and why of socialism Wandsworth Prison campaign launched Against cuts! Fight for free education! Russia's revolutionaries in the 1890s Action at Goldsmiths Bob Crow: differences and limits Amazon workers win ballot go-ahead Kino Eye: Adaptations of 1984 Vote for strikes and new PCS leaders Court win on right to strike Unison NEC backs Ukraine solidarity Glasgow: what sort of "anti-Zionism"? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-707-24-april-2024

    706 — Take the loot from the billionaires | Cass report | Not voting Labour? | History, industrial +

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 18, 2024 143:33


    Solidarity 706, 17 April 2024. Articles: Kino Eye: The Miners' Hymns The loot of the billionaires No to Iran-Israel war Ukraine in a corner: arm Ukraine! Galloway's reactionary "grand alliance" The working class and the overpaid Solidarity with peace activists in Israel Keep pressing for ceasefire and peace Watching the real world From Madrid to Kyiv Inequalities in fertility care Red Sea and Yemen's people under Houthi attack Fare Free London wins union support Debate: Boris Savinkov: a counter-revolutionary Cass final report: a major setback Starmer gives "total" pledge to arms industry Young Labour shifts to right The road to Bolshevism: Study, explain, agitate: how socialists organise The Chartist non-revolution of 1848 Unite steelworkers vote to strike Unison health conference ducks pay issue General secretaries I have known Wirral CSWs win their battle Slouching towards the election? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-706-17-april-2024

    705 — For a party of protest: For socialism, not managing capitalism | A "new left"? | HK | Ireland

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 11, 2024 160:05


    Solidarity 705, 10 April 2024. Articles may include: For a “party of protest” Peace and equal rights Vote for new leaders in PCS! How to win elections Trump and the billionaires Back anti-war movement in Israel A new left party jettisoning socialism “Planetary boundaries” don't say it all Anti-abortionists step up backlash Monkey Man, Modi, and Netflix Boris Savinkov: forgotten revolutionary Debate: Why the Starmer-Biden poll difference? Hong Kong passes new “security law” The road to Bolshevism: how a new start came from exile Talking about Israel in Germany Debate: Different views on Trump Worker demands for green conversion Debate: views on the Labour Party Succession planning in unions Letter: Fatal flaw in Irish polemic Letter: Seeing “parallels” between Algeria and Ireland The zigzags of technology Kino Eye: Comradeship across borders NEU fails to vote on Ukraine Junior doctors vote 97% for more action on pay restoration Goldsmiths starts action against cuts More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-705-10-april-2024

    704 — Join us in the fight: Transform the labour movement | Uni cuts | NEU & Ukraine | Begging

    Play Episode Listen Later Apr 4, 2024 150:56


    Solidarity 704, 3 April 2024. Articles may include: Transform the labour movement! Ceasefire, peace, two states! Owen Jones: From campaigner to social media "brand" Protests increase in Israel Cuts campaign grows in Nottingham Putin goes for more repression and war Cuts at UK universities Domestic violence rooted in poverty and cuts Economy, life, and caring Khan report: missing the Tories' blame Gaza and the left, USA and UK Push in schools union to back Ukraine Begging banned in Europe's wealthiest capital The Dmitriev Affair and Putin's Russia Haiti in social meltdown Letter: Discuss climate change seriously Letter: Refer to earlier discussions Conspiracy theory on Moscow bombing serves Putin From ultra-patience to ultra-impatience Public ownership of water and utilities! Glasgow East Women's Aid closed Kino Eye: Black and white unite and fight RMT members: vote yes to renew mandate on jobs, pensions, agreements Back "Trains Modernisation" strikes Amazon seeks to scupper union bid More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-704-3-april-2024

    703 — What a workers' government would do | Tata steel | Steve4NUS | ST Israel | History, work, more

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 21, 2024 153:45


    Solidarity 703, 20 March 2024. Articles include: Our demands and a workers' government End the war! Peace! Two states! “Standing Together” acts on aid for Gaza Sheriff of Nottingham votes against cuts Tory demagogues turn on dissent Textile workers strike in Egypt Young men drifting to the right Singer with a tin ear Vote Steve for NUS VPHE Unrest rises in Iran SRM: research now, but more only under socialism Portugal: fading memories of fascism? The road to Bolshevism: Plekhanov as “the father of Russian Marxism? What is Standing Together? New shifts on far right Transnistria, Moldova, and Putin Momentum convention: a mixed bag Food couriers pause action Amazon: more strikes Bombastic, “dogmatic instead of critical” Defend right to bad posters A strange sort of Big Bang Leeds pledges no “work notices” A 1940 film about the miners' battles Stop cuts at Goldsmiths Tata: nationalise, don't subsidise Pay: time to fight to win More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-703-20-march-2024

    702 — Workers' government: Why we advocate it, what we mean | Russia | Galloway | Tipping points

    Play Episode Listen Later Mar 6, 2024 145:02


    Solidarity 702, 6 March 2024. Articles include: Fight for a workers' government Food couriers can win a living wage! Let Gaza live! Peace! Two states! Refusing in the name of hope Israelis push against the "occupation occupying Israel" Ceasefire, end siege, free hostages, reconstruct Gaza Morning Star lurches further "Red-Brown" New far-right group sets election plans "Pro-life" and the Manchester protests Alan Bates is wrong about Amazon Reinstate Lambeth councillors! We may be near tipping points Research ban will not make us safer Alan Woods and his "born again" RCP Antisemitism and Israel Two years later, anguish, anger, acceptance The fight for free unions in Belarus The road to Bolshevism: the triumph and defeat of Narodnaya Volya Repeal all the anti-protest laws! At the court of King Donald Trade unionists against Galloway Goldsmiths UCU ballots against cuts Free public transport? Why not? Grady scrapes back in The greatest French film ever? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-702-6-march-2024

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