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The Alliance for Workers' Liberty

AWL Publications Page

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This page has three sections

• Documents available on-line - full pamphlets or other material you can read on-line.
• Documents available to order by credit card - items not included on the website but which you can order using your credit card.
• Documents available to order by post - send a cheque to the WL office, London (for those in the UK, and those without credit cards).

We also now have a UK-based Books for socialists section, where you can buy lefty books, CDs and videos from amazon.co.uk and help to raise a little bit of money for the AWL at the same time. Please check it out.

Documents available on-line

Workers' Liberty magazine

Not every article from every issue is available on-line yet, but it will be. Contact us if there's something you want that isn't yet available.

• WL66 January 2001
• Index to all articles & subjects covered in Workers' Liberty.
• Click here for a free copy of the current issue of Workers' Liberty.

Other publications on-line

• "How Solidarity Can Change The World"
  Articles by Engels, Kautsky, Trotsky, Luxemburg, edited by Sean Matgamna.
• AWL Basic Education Program
  Including links to the supporting texts on the web.

Documents available to order by credit card

For secure credit card ordering information, please see the on-line shop.

• Subscriptions to the magazine, as above
• "The Fate of the Russian Revolution - Lost Texts of Critical Marxism, volume 1".
  Texts by Max Shachtman, Hal Draper, C L R James etc.
  Edited and introduced by Sean Matgamna. 608 pages.
• "In an age of barbarism: essays on war, imperialism, nation, class".
  Writings by Lenin, Trotsky, Draper, Luxemburg, etc.; edited by Sean Matgamna.
• "How Solidarity Can Change The World".
  Articles by Engels, Kautsky, Trotsky, Luxemburg, edited by Sean Matgamna.
• "Radical Chains: Sexuality and Class Politics", by Janine Booth .
• "The fight for a workers' government", by Jill Mountford.
• "The case for socialist feminism", by Lynn Ferguson.
• "New Problems, New Struggles - A Handbook for Trade Unionists".
• "Socialists Answer The New Right".
  John O'Mahony and Martin Thomas debate Roger Scruton, Ken Minogue, and David Marsland .
• "A Workers' Guide to Ireland", by Sean Matgamna.
• "The Lies Against Socialism Answered"
• "Why You Should Be A Socialist"
  William Morris and others.
• "Lenin and the October Revolution", by Andrew Hornung and John O'Mahony.
• "Malcolm X", by Dion D'Silva.
• "Study Notes on Capital volume 1", by Martin Thomas.
• "What Is Dialectics", by Edward Conze.
• "Marxism and the Labour Movement"
  Education bulletin on the 'Militant' tendency (now the Socialist Party) - part one
• "Trotskyism and Stalinism"
  Education bulletin on the 'Militant' tendency (now the Socialist Party) - part two
• "Leninism and Opportunism"
  Education bulletin on the 'Militant' tendency (now the Socialist Party) - part three
• "Illusions of Power: the local government left 1979-85", by Mick O'Sullivan and Martin Thomas.
• "The IS-SWP Tradition"
  A cuttings book of comments and discussions with former IS-SWP(UK) leaders.
• "Liverpool: What Went Wrong"
  Liverpool City Council and 'Militant', 1984-6
• "Why the SWP beats up its Socialist Critics"
  An open letter to Tony Cliff about the physical attacks on AWL comrades at 'Marxism 93'
• "Workers' Power: a Tale of Kitsch Trotskyism"
  Documents 1973-93.
• "Seedbed of the Left"
  The origins of the British far left in Labour's youth wing, 1959-87
• "A Tragedy of the Left" - Socialist Worker and 'the party'

Documents available to order by post

New Series: The Politics of the Militant

• Vol. 1: Marxism and the Labour movement
  Including our tendency's founding document, What We Are and What We Must Become £5 plus 55 pence postage.
• Vol. 2: Trotskyism and Stalinism
  Including an analysis of Militant and the Russian war in Afghanistan. £2.50 plus 45 pence postage.
• Vol. 3: Leninism and Opportunism
  Including comments about Militant and Liverpool, the Young Socialists, Panther, and Ireland. £2 plus 45 pence postage.

General politics and our programme

• How solidarity can change the world - articles by Engels, Kautsky, Luxemburg and Trotsky; how socialism is relevant today.
  1998, book format, 96 pages. £3.95
• The fight for a workers' government - the case for a workers' government and a '"workers' budget"(1998, A5, 15 pages), 60 pence
• The case for socialist feminism - origins of women's oppression; capitalism, socialism and women; other feminisms(1989, A5, 64 pages), £1.50
• New problems, new struggles - a handbook for trade unionists(1990, A4, 66 pages), 95 pence
• Socialists answer the New Right - debate between Workers' Liberty and right wing intellectuals Roger Scruton, Ken Minogue and David Marsland(1991, A5, 40 pages), £1.50
• A workers' guide to Ireland - a socialist history of Ireland, from the 7th century to the 90s, in words and pictures(1993, newspaper format, 20 pages), 95 pence
• The lies against socialism answered - replies to the case against socialism in the aftermath of the collapse of Stalinism(1990, A5, 7 pages), 50 pence
• Why you should be a socialist - William Morris on the case for socialism; Stalinism and real socialism; the role of the socialists(1998, A5, 16 pages), 50 pence
• Lenin and the October revolution - the story of October 1917(Reprinted from Socialist Organiser 1982, A5, 25 pages), 50 pence
• Malcolm X - Malcolm X and Martin Luther King; a review of George Brietman on Malcolm X(1993, A5, 11 pages), 80 pence

AWL policy

• AWL conference 1999 - a report of the proceedings and resolutions presented to the February 1999 AWL conference(A4, 17 pages), £2

Education Bulletins

• Study notes on Capital - a guide to reading and understanding Marx's Capital vol. 1(A4, 73 pages), £2.50
• What is dialectics? - an explanation by Edward Conze plus 'The ABC of materialist dialectics' by Trotsky(A4, 18 pages), £1.50
• AWL basic education programme - a study guide to our initial, internal education course(1997, A4, 30 pages), £1.50
• The tendencies of capital and profit - a discussion on the 'tendency of the rate of profit to fall'(A4, 21 pages), £1

The AWL and the left

• Illusions of power - the story of the local government left, 1979-85(1985, A4, 40 pages), 60 pence
• The IS-SWP tradition - a cuttings file of articles and interviews by and with many former IS and SWP leaders(1997, A4, 30 pages), £2
• Liverpool: what went wrong - analysis of the Militant's disastrous strategy in Liverpool(1986, A4, 7 pages), 20 pence
• Why the SWP beats up its socialist critics - an open letter to Tony Cliff about the physical attacks on AWL members at Marxism 93(1993, A5, 12 pages), 80 pence
• Workers' Power: a tale of kitsch Trotskyism - documents, 1973-93(1993, A4, 100 pages), £3
• Seedbed of the left - the origins of the far left in the Labour Party's youth wing, 1959-87(Reprinted 1993, A5, 31 pages), £1.50
• A tragedy of the left - Socialist Worker and "the party"(1991, A5, 52 pages), £2.50

To order, send a cheque (to "AWL") for the value of the pamphlets you want to buy plus 10% for postage, to : AWL, PO Box 823, LONDON, SE15 4NA

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