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Pamphlets, publications beyond Solidarity

Automation and the working class

Recordings of our weekly newspaper, Solidarity; archived. Hear other publications: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/pamphlets-publications-beyond . Read the latest Solidarity: https://workersliberty.org/solidarity back issues: https://workersliberty.org/solidarity-all or subscribe to receive paper versions: https://workersliberty.org/sub

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Archive of Solidarity newspaper

Solidarity 613, 10 November 2021, part 1 of 3, pages 1-6. Articles may include:
To save the climate, push back the bosses!
Sudan's neighbourhoods and workers vs the military coup
“Cityclean is a powder keg”
Climate change, China, and the Morning Star
Couriers are defending jobs and health
Dave Ward, Billy Hayes and the CWU
Women's Fightback: Spain extends IVF rights
Yorkshire cricket: a racist disgrace
Christmas appeal for miners’ families
Climate finance: take it out of the bosses’ hands
After Paterson: push Labour to fight Tories

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-613-10-november-2021

Solidarity

613 pt 1 of 3 pp1-6 — Push back bosses to save the climate! Sudan: against the military coup

Solidarity 614, 17 November 2021, part 1 of 4, pages 1 to 6. Articles may include:
Support the university strikes
Reinstate Crispin Flintoff
The political economy of Sudan's coup and uprising
When to love authoritarians
Barry Gardiner’s support for far right
Lillian Lane Murphy, 2003-2021
Moral panic over advice to sex workers
COP26 and the credibility gap

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-614-17-november-2021

614 pt 1 of 4 pp1-6 — Support uni strikes! COP26: the credibility gap. Sudan's resistance interview

Solidarity 614, 17 November 2021, part 2 of 4, pages 7 to 11. Articles may include:
Minneapolis votes down police changes
26 November mobilisation in India
Academic freedom: we must fight for it
CWU calls for demonstration for New Deal for Workers
Corbynism's fundamental failure was on campaigning
Corbynism's flaw was unity with the right, not Stalinism
The hinge of Corbynism's downfall

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-614-17-november-2021

614 pt 2 of 4 pp7-11 - Corbynism: What went wrong? India moblisation. Academic freedom. Police.

Solidarity 614, 17 November 2021, part 2 of 4, pages 12 to 17. Articles may include:
James Connolly on the yellow unions in Ireland
China 1949: What about the workers?
Building organisation at Barnoldswick
John Deere strikers face re-vote
The Dreyfus-deniers of the French far right
The MP banned for being an atheist

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-614-17-november-2021

614 pt 3 of 5 pp12-17 - James Connolly on yellow unions in Ireland; China 1949 & workers; more

Solidarity 614, 17 November 2021, part 4 of 4, pages 18-25. Articles may include:
The campaign against Stonewall's "diversity champions"
1888: Río Tinto and Spain’s first climate strike
Requisition capacity and boost pay for NHS and care!
Reviewing the ScotRail dispute
RMT calls strikes of drivers on Night Tube lines
Diary of a Tube worker: When women drivers avoid the messroom
Kino Eye: Life out of balance
"Fire and rehire" battle at Clarks
Sheffield bin workers fight for "going rate"
Near victory in Royal Parks dispute
Poland: let the refugees in!
How to clean the stables of capitalism

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-614-17-november-2021

614 pt 4 of 4 pp18-25 - Capitalism's stables; Poland: let refugees in; Stonewall; 1888 Rio Tinto

Aiming to replace capitalism with socialism, James Connolly’s organising and ideas evolved considerably. One idea he clung to from the turn of the century to his death in 1916 was industrial unionism, workers’ solidarity across grades and trades and sympathetic strikes. That is how he saw his work with Larkin on the Irish Transport Union: a union for an industry and the members watching the moment until they could take over running the industry. His articles on that theme have never previously been collected compactly, and many appear in this short book — here in audioformat — for the first time in full since original publication.

Buy a copy and more online: https://workersliberty.org/connolly-unions

Introduction by Liam McNulty and Sean Matgamna

Effective Trade Unionism: Writings by James Connolly | Audiobook

This short pamphlet explains why trade unions should not be giving political and financial support to a newspaper which is not the "daily paper of the left" but the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB). More online and buy: https://workersliberty.org/morningstar

The Morning Star is not an effective way for unions to gain support for their disputes and campaign. And the political cost of backing the Morning Sar is immense: in effect, presenting a vision of “socialism” in which the totalitarian police state of China is held up as desirable, military coups (as in Niger) are hailed as legitimate means of achieving progressive change, and nationalist illusions of “socialism in one country” are promoted as the way forward for Britain. And it’s not even true that the paper allows genuine debate on issues where there are differences on the left.

Why trade unions should not support the Morning Star — Pamphlet

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

We Stand For Workers Liberty — Pamphlet audio

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

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

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

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

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. Lead article, Automation and the working class, by Martin Thomas.
Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/automation-and-working-class

See also:
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth

Full pamphlet at: https://workersliberty.org/WL70
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Automation

Automation 1 — Automation and the working class — lead article

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. 
2: The Future and Robots, by Charlie Applebaum. Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/future-and-robots
3: Hipster Reformism and the Technological Fix, by Bruce Robinson. Article at:  https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-07-17/hipster-reformism-and-technological-fix

See: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-and-the-working-class-1-lead-article
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth

Full pamphlet at: workersliberty.org/WL70
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Automation and the Working Class

Automation 2 & 3 — The Future and Robots, Hipster Reformism and the Technological Fix

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. 4th Article, Marx's telescope, by Martin Thomas.
Article at: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-01-14/marxs-telescope

See: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-and-the-working-class-1-lead-article
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-5-the-great-foundation-stone-of-wealth

Full pamphlet at: workersliberty.org/WL70
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Automation 4 — Marx's Telescope

Solidarity 531/Workers' Liberty 70 — Automation and the working class. "The great foundation-stone of wealth" by Karl Marx, exctracts
See: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch13.htm#p701
& https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1857/grundrisse/ch14.htm

See also:
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-and-the-working-class-1-lead-article
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-2-the-future-and-robots-hipster-reformism-and-the-technological-fix
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/automation-4-marxs-telescope


Full pamphlet at: workersliberty.org/WL70
Browse and subscribe to all audio: workersliberty.org/audio

Automation 5 - "The great foundation-stone of wealth"

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