Episodes
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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
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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!
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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
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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!
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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"
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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
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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 -
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.
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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
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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 -
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
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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
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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 -
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
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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
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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 -
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, 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!
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Women's Fightback 30, Spring 2024. 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. Articles include:
We believe in joint struggle, an interview with Rula Daood
A tribute to Vivian
Women and the miners' strike 1984-5
Gays and miners: the enemy within
Lessons from Mexico
Free the HK47!
Exile and the fight for democracy
Women in revolt!
Dee Dickens: Medusa
A note on brothel-keeping
On reading Annie Ernaux
Champion of outcasts: Lisetta Carmi
The Roma struggle for health
Unwell women
Abolition revolution
The fight for justice
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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. - Show more
