Women's Fightback Issue 26, Autumn/Winter 2021. Full contents, buy a paper copy, or download the PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wf26

Women's Fightback

Women's Fightback 26, pt 3 of 4 pp15-22 — Grunwick Strike history; International

More online and buy a pamphlet: https://workersliberty.org/sylvia



Of the famous suffragette family Pankhurst — Emmeline, Christabel, Adela — Sylvia became the pioneer communist who organised the East End of London, where many working class men also lacked the vote. The pamphlet recounts the contrasting evolutions of the "votes for ladies" of Christabel and Emmeline, and of Sylvia's working-class organising.

Sylvia

Sylvia — The story of Sylvia Pankhurst | Susan Carlyle, Sean Matgamna

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

Solidarity

Effective Trade Unionism: Writings by James Connolly | Audiobook

Audio of the pamphlet: https://workersliberty.org/sak-pamphlet

Shapurji Saklatvala, revolutionary socialist, Indian nationalist and Labour's first BAME MP, was elected in 1922. Representing radical local and international workers' and anti-colonial struggles, he suffered ostracism, surveillance, imprisonment and exile from India to fight against capitalism, racism and imperialism: for working-class self-liberation.

Shapurji Saklatvala —  A socialist and anti-imperialist rebel in Parliament, 1922-9 | Pamphlet

James Connolly in World War One — Running with the Hare and Riding with the Hounds. Workers' Liberty vol. 3 no. 71, February 2023.

James Connolly in World War One — Running with the Hare and Riding with the Hounds

The Easter Rising and Irish history: The two souls of Irish nationalism? An attempt at a Marxist account. An inspiration across the world? Or an eclipse of working-class socialism by narrow nationalism? Both were in the Easter Rising.

Workers' Liberty vol. 3 issue 75, Solidarity 694, is a special on this topic. More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/easter

The Easter Rising and Irish history: An attempt at a Marxist account | WL 3/75, Sol 694

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

WL77 — Workers' Fight, 1972-5

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 746, 18 June 2025. Articles:
    Schools: fight for pay and funding!
    Israel-Iran: Stop the War!
    Many fronts in Trump’s power grab
    Iranian left calls for peace
    Support opposition in Israel and in Iran!
    Billions in cuts still underway
    Lambeth set to strike
    China apologist’s accidental revelations
    The life and work of Dan Gallin, 1931-2025
    Pushing back on EHRC guidance
    Abortion: end the 1861 law!
    Sheffield University win on trans rights
    Still on “local independent” line
    An underwhelming Labour victory
    Poor sick pay costs lives
    Labour after the Spending Review
    Gaps in Employment Rights Bill
    Workers’ Liberty at LO fête
    The legacy of Phyllis and Julius Jacobson
    Many millions out against Trump
    Sanders declares new “Fighting Oligarchy” drive
    How Putin rules in occupied Ukraine
    Woke but antiworker?
    Birmingham bin strike could last until December
    Sheffield injunction against strike
    Save Ealing’s children’s centres!
    The NPA-R and Lotta Comunista
    Breathless (À bout de souffle), 1960
    Orgreave inquiry now!
    Nottm HCSWs are stronger than ever

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-746-18-june-2025

746 — Troops out of Los Angeles: Stop ICE raids! Rally against Trump! | Israel-Iran: Stop the War!

Solidarity 747, 2 July 2025. Articles:
    Pay and funding: Winning strategy required
    Union-Labour rebels can beat cuts
    Setbacks at Unison conference
    Union win in Lambeth
    Israel out of Gaza and West Bank! Peace!
    EHRC “update” still in limbo
    “I am not the accused, I am the accuser”
    “No vote for Labour”… but does it matter?
    Zohran Mamdani wins the primary
    Why do “enemy feminisms” abound?
    Oppose the Palestine Action ban!
    Travelling without trashing the world
    Socialist Party equivocates on Israel-Iran
    A reply to Michael Chessum
    Hong Kong left forced into disbanding
    Marx on breaking the chains
    We still need to think about Stalinism
    Debate: USA: the unions can stop Trump
    Story of a long Covid battle
    Letter: The Supreme Court did think it through
    Letter: Reform UK is "Nationalist Authoritarian Right"
    Scarlett Letters bookshop goes into occupation
    RMT AGM debates policy
    Why not a mess room for all?
    M*A*S*H and Loretta Swit
    Doctors ballot over pay
    Nottingham strikers are stronger
    Sheffield mass picket on 9 July

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-747-2-july-2025

747 — Union-Labour Rebels can beat cuts | Sheffield mass picket | Enemy feminisms | Marx | More

Solidarity 748, 16 July 2025. Articles:
Fight to roll back cuts
How to tax the rich
Support the resident doctor strikes!
Rebuild the NHS! Tax top wealth!
Gaza: stop the bombs!
Push labour movement to campaign for migrant rights
Is Murray flying a kite?
“Anti-Israel” does not equal “left-wing”
War, power, and sexual violence
Putin looks to a long war
Worker power can keep us cool
LGBT+ Labour suspends its AGM
New party "not an overnight process"
Fund higher education, fee-free!
Story of a long Covid battle
Eye on the left: Behind the "new party" squabbles
The tariff war and Chinese capitalism
The Trotskyists at Vorkuta
Dangers in the new NHS plan
Serbian protests challenge Vučić
The SWP and political Islam
Anti-Trump protests on 17 July
Union slams Trump’s record
Bernie Sanders on the BBB and on the media
Bureaucrats, bureaucratisation, and how to beat them
Letter: The Supreme Court and extrapolations
Letter: Trade unions must do more to fight welfare cuts
Birmingham mass picket on 25 July
Unite union votes for Ukraine solidarity
Letter: Two queries
Flurry of Ofsted-induced mania
Football and women in Iran
Labour: back the bin strikers!
Why Rayner won't talk to her union reps
Nottingham HCSWs talk of escalation 

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-748-16-july-2025

748 — Rebuild the NHS: Tax top wealth | Workers v heatwave | New party? | Strikes, history, debate, more

William Morris: ecology and the shift to socialism, part 6 of our series on the politics of the late 19th century socialist William Morris, February 2009, by Paul Hampton

More, a paper version of the booklet, and a contents list, at https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

William Morris: ecology and the shift to socialism — Older ed. of For Workers' Climate Action

Are "identity politics" and class politics in conflict? Do struggles against particular oppressions threaten working-class unity? Are concepts like "intersectionality" useful? These questions, and more, were discussed, in this Session at Ideas for Freedom 2019. With Ralph Leonard (writer and activist), Christie Neary (Workers' Liberty)

See http://workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/whats-wrong-identity-politics, and also the chapter in our pamphlet https://workersliberty.org/why-soc-fem

Identity politics and Class Struggle

For more critical perspectives on Malm by speaker who gave this talk see here https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-04-13/how-class-struggle-shaped-fossil-fuel
and here https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2022-03-27/argument-over-malm-much-ado-about-nothing

And more critique and debate here https://www.workersliberty.org/malm-debate

This session introduces Andreas Malm's book on fossil fuels, and discusses how it could help activists develop an anti-capitalist, working-class environmentalism. With Mike Zubrowski

See Workers' Liberty's pamphlets at http://workersliberty.org/pamphlets, including our 2018 pamphlet "For workers' climate action" https://workersliberty.org/climate-pamphlet

For a book review by another workers' liberty activist, see http://workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/fossil-fuels-and-rise-capitalism

The book can be bought, in paper and/or ebook form, at https://www.versobooks.com/books/2002-fossil-capital

For information about our summer camp, see workersliberty.org/camp

Andreas Malm's 'Fossil Capital: The Rise of Steam Power & Roots of Global Warming' — see description

What can the breakup of Yugoslavia teach us about nationalism, Stalinism, and inter-communal conflict? Academic and writer Sarah Correia (London School of Economics) will give a talk, followed by discussion. 

See https://workersliberty.org/story/2019-06-05/break-yugoslavia

The breakup of Yugoslavia with Sarah Correia

What does Weber, heralded as one of the "founders of socilogy", have to teach contemporary Marxists? Activist and academic Dan Davison-Vecchione gave a talk, follwed by discussion, at Ideas for Freedom 2019.

Our summer camp: workersliberty.org/camp

See also this article: https://newpol.org/issue_post/marx-and-weber-critics-capitalism/

Ideas For Freedom 2019

The bourgeois Marx: a critical appraisal of Max Weber with Dan Davison

Solidarność: The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81 , by Mark Osborn, published January 2020. Part 1 of 11, pages 1 to 14. Sections in this recording:
After the War
Stalinist Rule
1956, Poznań

Buy a beautiful paper version for £5, including photographs and scans from the time: https://workersliberty.org/solidarnosc
Playlist of book: https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/solidarnosc
All audio: https://workersliberty.org/audio
All tracks of this book:
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-1-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-2-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-3-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-4-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-5-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-6-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-7-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-8-of-11
Appendices:
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-9-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-10-of-11
https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/solidarnosc-pt-11-of-11

Solidarnosc

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Solidarność — pt1/11, pp1-14 — The workers' movement and the rebirth of Poland in 1980-81

Janine Booth interviews musician Rhoda Dakar, who talks about Two-Tone, policing, the centrality of class and much much more! Rhoda Dakar was in The Bodysnatchers and The Special AKA, and performed in "Free Nelson Mandela"

Rhoda Dakar's latest single: https://orcd.co/standtogether

Workers' Liberty anti-racist resources: https://www.workersliberty.org/anti-racist-resources

Rhoda's soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-463087528

The Dub Pistols: https://soundcloud.com/dubpistols

The Special AKA: https://soundcloud.com/the-special-aka

Video version of this audio: https://youtu.be/L2zRPf-YvPg

Rhoda Dakar (of The Bodysnatchers/The Special AKA) on racism, class and culture

A speech by Dan Davison, a labour activist and sociology PhD student at the University of Cambridge, for a talk on C.L.R. James and the Haitian Revolution held in July 2020. Future meetings: https://workersliberty.org/meetings
Read online: https://workersliberty.org/story/2020-08-26/black-jacobins-haitian-revolution-against-slavery
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Cyril Lionel Robert James (CLR James) was born in Trinidad in 1901. He wrote his first book, a novel called Minty Alley in the 1920s (published in 1936), while a school teacher in Trinidad; the book is a critique of class and colonialism, and indicated a lifelong interest in integrating race and class struggles.
James, spent six years in the UK before the Second World War, joining the ranks of British Trotskyism. In 1938 he travelled to the US at the invitation of the American Socialist Workers’ Party and stayed for 15 years. In the same year The Black Jacobins was published.
James left the Trotskyist movement in 1951 and from that time, until his death in 1989, James had a long and varied socialist and literary “career”, remaining a Marxist but also heavily influenced by Pan-Africanism.
The Black Jacobins is the story of the Haitian Revolution of 1791-1804, focusing on the life and leadership of the ex-slave leader Toussaint L’Ouverture. It is also a history of European colonialism, the slave plantation system, the huge sugar factories of the French colony of San Domingue (the eastern half of the island that is now Haiti).
Slave resistance came first in the form of flight to the mountains and forming of maroon band. But the French Revolution created a political conflict in the colony, one of many dimensions, including of whites against the French monarchy, of the free people of colour as well as the slaves.
One ex-slave Toussaint Breda, later Toussaint L’Ouverture (meaning opening to liberty) joined up with the expanding slave army in the mountains; they created a disciplined fighting force. What happened next is a complex story of shifting alliances, increasing radicalisation, the end of slavery, and a war for independence.

The Black Jacobins: the Haitian revolution against slavery — intro speech

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