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The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty, is a
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group in Britain and Australia, which has been identified with the theorist
Sean Matgamna Sean Matgamna is an Irish Trotskyist active in Britain. A founder of Workers' Fight in 1966, he is still a prominent member of the group, now called the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. Early life Matgamna was born in 1941 in Ennis, County Clare ...
throughout its history. It publishes the newspaper ''
Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...
''.


History


Workers' Fight

The AWL traces its origins to the document ''What we are and what we must become'', written by the tendency's founder
Sean Matgamna Sean Matgamna is an Irish Trotskyist active in Britain. A founder of Workers' Fight in 1966, he is still a prominent member of the group, now called the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. Early life Matgamna was born in 1941 in Ennis, County Clare ...
in 1966, in which he argued that the Revolutionary Socialist League – by then effectively the
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tendency – was too inward-looking, and needed to become more activist in its orientation. The RSL refused to circulate the document; hence, with a handful of supporters, he left to form the Workers' Fight group. Espousing left unity, they accepted an offer in 1968 to form a faction within the International Socialists (IS) as the Trotskyist Tendency.


Trotskyist Tendency

The Trotskyist Tendency clashed with the leadership of the International Socialists over many issues; for example, UK membership of the
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, on which the IS leadership itself was divided, and the use of the "Troops Out" slogan regarding
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. In December 1971, the leadership of the International Socialists called a special conference to "defuse" the TT. The TT described the "defusion" as an "expulsion" given that they did not wish to leave.


International-Communist League

Outside the IS, increased in size, the group resumed publication of ''Workers' Fight'', now as a printed paper, not as was previously the case as a duplicated journal, began publication of a theoretical journal entitled ''Permanent Revolution'' and made efforts to publish a small number of workplace-oriented publications in specific industries. At the end of 1975, it fused with the smaller Workers Power group, formerly the Left Faction within the IS, to form the International-Communist League. A small group of members in Bolton and Wigan opposed to the merger formed the
Marxist Worker Workers' Power is a Trotskyist group which forms the British section of the League for the Fifth International. The group publishes the newspaper ''Workers Power'' and distributes the English-language journal ''Fifth International''. Origin Th ...
group, which later fused with the
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. Workers' Fight was renamed ''Workers' Action'' and went over to a weekly publication schedule and the group's quarterly magazine was now entitled ''International-Communist''. It joined with other groups that considered themselves to the left of the USFI in the Necessary International Initiative. In 1976, two-thirds of the ex-Workers Power group's members left in a dispute over Labour Party work and resumed a separate existence. The I-CL increased its activity within the Labour Party, and in 1978 helped set up the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory. This campaign proved relatively popular and initially involved a range of figures on the left of the Labour Party who wrote for and supported its newspaper, ''
Socialist Organiser {{unreferenced, date=October 2007 ''Socialist Organiser'' was a weekly socialist newspaper circulated in the Labour Party. The newspaper was founded in 1979 by the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, later renamed the Socialist Organiser ...
''. After a dispute over whether local government rates should be increased to offset cuts made by the Thatcher government, most of the Labour left figures - including
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- withdrew from ''Socialist Organiser'' until the I-CL was the only force involved in what was now its central publication. Both ''Workers' Action'' and ''International-Communist'' were by 1979 discontinued, reflecting the group's
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into the Labour Party.


Workers Socialist League

In 1981, the I-CL fused with
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's
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which had now also entered the Labour Party. The new organisation, also called the Workers' Socialist League, mostly worked through the Socialist Organiser Alliance. It also produced a theoretical journal, ''Workers' Socialist Review''. In 1984, the groups split apart. The key issue was the
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: most of the former I-CL argued for the defeat of both sides; most of the former WSL supported a victory for Argentina. The tensions had also been strained over questions of internal democracy and differences over the national question.


Socialist Organiser Alliance

The Socialist Organiser Alliance grew from the broad-left Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory. By 1983 the paper had become identified with Matgamna's supporters, leading to a split with Labour left politicians (such as Ken Livingstone) over the GLC's policy of increasing rates to offset cuts in central government grants to local councils. The group organised its student work through the
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(NOLS), forming Socialist Students in NOLS (SSiN) to campaign within the National Union of Students. Throughout the 1980s the group had reassessed its politics and reappraised the
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tradition of heterodox and dissident Trotskyists including
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and
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. The group adopted a two-state position on Israel-Palestine, and in 1988, moved away from its original position that the
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states were "deformed or degenerated workers states". By the 1990s the majority of organisation had adopted a
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analysis, with a minority holding a
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position.


Alliance for Workers' Liberty

The newspaper ''Socialist Organiser'' was proscribed by the Labour Party conference in 1990. In response to the ban, the Socialist Organiser Alliance dissolved. In 1992, supporters of Socialist Organiser launched a new organisation known as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty. The AWL was involved in left unity initiatives such as the Socialist Alliance,
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and
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, and stood a parliamentary candidate in
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, while campaigning for Labour elsewhere. It also maintained a focus on pushing affiliated trade unions to assert themselves against the Labour leadership, and was involved in the establishment of the Labour Representation Committee in 2004. In the late 1980s, it established and led a number of left opposition campaigns in the NUS, including Left Unity and the Campaign for Free Education and its supporters won seats in the structures of the NUS.
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, President of
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from 2004 to 2006, was a member of the AWL and the Campaign for Free Education. It played leading roles in the NUS Women's and
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Campaigns, championing its policies on liberation and international solidarity within them, securing their representation within the NUS and working with groups such as
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and
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. AWL was central to the Education Not for Sale network, and in 2010 helped found the
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. AWL has been more critical of
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than some other groups on the far left. In 2006, it reproduced the
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that were originally published in ''
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'' on its website, describing it as an issue of free speech. While it opposed the Iraq war, the group was critical of calls for the immediate withdrawal of US and UK forces, arguing that the likely consequence of a precipitate withdrawal would be increased sectarian violence that would snuff out the fledgling independent labour movement. A large minority within the organisation, while agreeing with the emphasis on solidarity with Iraqi workers, argued that the group should raise the call for the withdrawal of troops. These and other positions, including its support for a two-state settlement in Israel/Palestine, have led to other far-left groups characterising the AWL as "
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" and "
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". In 2009, AWL members were central to sparking and supporting the sit-down strike of Vestas wind turbine factory workers on the Isle of Wight. In 2018, a former member alleged that in 2005, when he was a 16 year old member of the group, he had been sexually assaulted twice by an older, and by then also former, member. The group responded, acknowledging the allegations and initiating an investigation, but a motion was passed at the London Young Labour conference in February 2018 to exclude AWL members/supporters from LYL spaces until the allegations were investigated.


Activities

The AWL has supported the newspaper ''
Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...
'' since 1995, and published it since 1999. It also published ''Workers' Liberty'' as a roughly quarterly magazine between 1985 and 2001. In 2001 and 2002, a second series of the magazine was published in a journal format. A third series of ''Workers' Liberty'' started in February 2006, taking the form of thematic collections issued as inserts within ''Solidarity''. Women members of the AWL also publish a newspaper, ''Women's Fightback''. AWL also publishes occasional books and pamphlets, including ''The Fate of the Russian Revolution ''(a collection of "critical Marxist" and
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Trotskyist writings on
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, mainly from the Workers' Party/
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tradition), ''Working-class politics and anarchism'' (exploring the commonalities and differences between class-struggle
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and
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traditions and the AWL's own brand of libertarian-tinged Trotskyism), and ''Antonio Gramsci: Working-class revolutionary'' (a short appraisal of the life and thought of the Italian Marxist agitator, organiser, and educator
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). The AWL helped to set up and was active in campaigns such as No Sweat,
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, Workers' Climate Action, the
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, and local community campaigns such as the Save Lewisham Hospital campaign and the One Choice, One Dream alliance in Southampton. In trade union work, AWL members focus on developing workplace and industrial bulletins, and rank-and-file networks such as the Education Solidarity Network in the
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. It produces workplace and industrial bulletins including ''Tubeworker'' (for
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workers) and ''Off The Rails'' (for mainline railway workers). The group has international links with Workers' Liberty Australia and
Solidarity ''Solidarity'' is an awareness of shared interests, objectives, standards, and sympathies creating a psychological sense of unity of groups or classes. It is based on class collaboration.''Merriam Webster'', http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictio ...
in the United States. It has worked with groups on the left of the former
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(now part of the
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), and collaborated with Iraqi and Iranian groups from the Worker-Communist tradition. It also has links with L'Étincelle, a former fraction of
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, the Iranian Revolutionary Marxist Tendency, and Turkish group Marksist Tutum. The group advocated a "no" vote in the
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. AWL members were also prominent in the Free Shahrokh Zamani and Reza Shahabi campaign, a solidarity campaign demanding the release of jailed Iranian trade unionists. It supported
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in the 2015 Labour leadership campaign, and subsequently applied to the
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to be de-registered as a political party, enabling its supporters to join the Labour Party. It campaigned against
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in the
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, and called on activists to campaign for Labour in the 2017 general election, and again in
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. In March 2022, Labour's National Executive Committee proscribed the AWL.


Notable former members

* Journalist
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* Screenwriter Clive Bradley, who remains an active sympathiser of the group * ''
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'' presenter
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*
Rob Dawber Robert "Rob" Dawber (8 January 1956 – 20 February 2001) was a British railwayman turned writer whose script for the film '' The Navigators'' was commissioned by director Ken Loach and shot in Sheffield, where Dawber lived.Ken LoacObituary ...
, screenwriter of
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's '' The Navigators'', who was still a member when he died * Former National Union of Students president
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* Political theorist
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* Former Labour MP
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* Author and journalist
Charlotte Raven Charlotte Raven (born 1969) is a British author and journalist. She studied English at the University of Manchester. As a Labour Club activist there in the late 1980s and early 1990s, she was part of a successful campaign to oust then student uni ...
*
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General Secretary
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* ''
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'' journalist Rajeev Syal *
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Martyn Hudson


References


External links


Alliance for Workers' Liberty websiteCatalogue of the Alliance for Workers' Liberty papers held at LSE ArchivesCatalogue of the Socialist Organiser Alliance archives in Alan Clinton's papers
held at the
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Catalogue of the AWL archives
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