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The Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty is a small Trotskyist group based in the United Kingdom. The group has had a complex history, but has always been strongly identified with the theorist Sean Matgamna. The AWL publish the newspaper Solidarity. The group has international links with Workers' Liberty Australia and Sarastus in Finland.1 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 in 1966. Publication of this document led to his expulsion from the Revolutionary Socialist League, and with a handful of supporters, he formed the Workers' Fight group. Espousing left unity, they accepted an offer in 1969 to form a faction within the International Socialists (IS, later renamed the Socialist Workers Party), and named themselves the Trotskyist Tendency.
2 Trotskyist Tendency
The Trotskyist Tendency (TT) clashed with the leadership of the IS over many issues, for instance arguing against voting no to the Common Market, and for a "Troops Out" slogan regarding Northern Ireland. This was a particularly controversial issue at the time, the IS leadership arguing that an immediate withdrawal of troops would harm the nationalist cause given the attacks by some loyalists on nationalist areas.
In 19711971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). Events January January 1 British divorce Reform Act comes into force January 2 66 die in stairway crush at Rangers v Celtic football match, Glasgow, Scotland. See Ibrox disaster. Janua, the leadership of the International Socialists called a special conference. They claimed the purpose of the conference as a "defusion" of the two groups, while the TT claimed that they were expelled, given that they did not wish to leave.
3 International-Communist League
Outside the IS, the TT, much increased in size, again became known as Workers' Fight, until they united with Workers PowerWorkers Power is a orthodox Trotskyist group, with sections in the United Kingdom, Germany, Australia, Sweden, Austria, Czech Republic and supporters in other countries. As part of the League for the Fifth International which they were prime movers in fou in 1975Events January January 1 Watergate scandal: John N. Mitchell, H. Haldeman, John D. Ehrlichman are found guilty of the Watergate cover-up and are sentenced to 30 months to 8 years in jail on February 21 January 5 The Tasman Bridge in Tasmania, Australia, i to form the International-Communist League. This group published Workers Action, but much of Workers Power left in 19761976 is a leap year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). Events January January 12 UN Security Council votes 11-1 to admit the Palestinian Liberation Organization January 15 Would-be Gerald Ford presidential assassin Sara Jane Moore is s to continue a separate existence. Workers Action increased its activity within the Labour PartyThe Labour Party is a centre- left or social democratic political party in Britain (see British politics), and one of the United Kingdom's three main political parties. Under its leader Tony Blair it won a landslide in the 1997 general election, and forme, and in 1978Events January January 1 The Copyright Act of 1976 takes effect, making sweeping changes to United States copyright law. January 1 Air India's Boeing 747 explodes near Bombay 213 dead. January 4 Referendum in Chile supports policies of Augusto Pinochet. set up the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory . This campaign proved popular, and enabled the group to start the weekly Socialist OrganiserSocialist Organiser was the name of a defunct weekly socialist newspaper circulated in the British Labour Party. The newspaper was founded by the 1979 Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory, which was renamed the Socialist Organiser Alliance. The newspap paper.
