Workers' Liberty

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What is Workers’ Liberty?

Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. Society is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the environment and much else.

Against the accumulated wealth and power of the capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity.

Workers’ Liberty aims to build solidarity through struggle so that the working class can overthrow capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, workers’ control and a democracy much fuller than the present system, with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges.

We fight for the labour movement to break with “social partnership” and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses.

Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping organise rank-and-file groups.

We are also active among students and in many campaigns and alliances.

We stand for:

● Independent working-class representation in politics.

● A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour movement.

● A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to strike, to picket effectively, and to take solidarity action.

● Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education and jobs for all.

● A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity against racism.

● Open borders.

● Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist rulers.

● Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or community to global social organisation.

● Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big and small.

● Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate.

Contact us:
● 020 7394 8923 ● solidarity@workersliberty.org The editor (Cathy Nugent), 20e Tower Workshops, Riley

And check out our sister page - Workers' Liberty Women here http://bit.ly/wl-women