Subscribe to Workers Liberty Australia e-list Read the workersliberty archive Hosted by Yahoogroups.com Workers' Liberty is a Marxist group. We are for socialism, created by the collective action of the working class. Capitalism is a bankrupt system, destroying the world, denying the means to earn a living, causing starvtion and misery to the majority. At the same time capital employs the labour of those it can make the greatest profit from, whether they be children, whether they be denied the right to organise by their governments, whatever part of the world they  might live in. But capital in exploiting labour, creates the working class. When working class people learn together that the capitalism is our enemy, and when we act together against the enemy, we can learn our potential to create a better world. As Marxists we learn from our contributions to working class struggle, by putting forward and discussing our analysis of current politics. The socialism Workers Liberty advocates has nothing in common with the discredited Stalinist regimes. We welcome their collapse, which clears the way for a rediscovery of democratic revolutionary socialism. We adhere to the principles of Trotsky's struggle against capitalism, Stalinism and reformism, but reject a great deal which seems to us false in the common run of neo-Trotskyism since the 1940s. Our history and What we stand for Our constitution

Socialist Alliance founding conference "The working class must have a political party and a political voice. The Socialist Alliance is an opportunity to fill the void that has been left by the Australian Labor Party". - Craig Johnston, AMWU Conference report by Martin Thomas Melbourne's trade union centre, the Trades Hall, is a huge neo-classical building. It looks as if it might be the City Hall, or a big museum, until you notice that the monument outside is addressed: "To the Workers who have died as a result of their work". Entering it, you see posters for the pickets at the city's Nike store, run weekly despite heavy harassment from the police, and walls covered with painted tributes to the pioneers of the Eight Hours movement. Melbourne's and Sydney's trade unions were the first in the world to win an eight hour day. On 4-5 August the Australian Socialist Alliance met there for its founding conference. Read on>> Contents page for our August newsletter Download a print version of our August newsletter as a 132Kb PDF and our Special SA Conference supplement with Workers' Liberty proposals as a 60Kb PDF.To read a PDF, you need Acrobat Reader. If you don't have it, you can get it for free here. Problems? If you have trouble downloading a PDF, right click on the link and choose 'Save Link as', to download it to your PC. A voice for a workers' alternative Workers Liberty's proposal for the basis for a Socialist Alliance. February 2001 Read on in your web browser or Download a print version as an 18Kb PDF.

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