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Fighting as part of the labour movement for a socialist alternative to capitalism & Stalinism.
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📅Ideas for Freedom takes place on 22-23 November in Islington.
🤔 + debate on 'A New Party' on Friday 21 November, 7pm at Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, London W1 6AQ.
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🥐Free creche, cheap food and crash accommodation.
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The story of the efforts so far to make socialism an organised international movement.

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The First and Second Internationals
Abridged from a pamphlet, “The First Three Socialist Internationals”, published in 1989. Though idiosyncratic in its slant on some points, this tells the story of the three large-scale efforts so far…
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November 10, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Discussion of this and other aspects of aviation and environment at the Workers' Ecology Reading Group Sunday, 26 October 2025 ⋅20:00 – 22:00 • Zoomlink bit.ly/eco-rg

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This part of curbing aviation’s eco-impact should be easy
Nearly half the current global-warming impact of aviation comes from "contrails" - wispy clouds formed by water droplets condensing round particles emitted from the back of jet engines. To cut that…
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November 10, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Mark Osborn, editor of Workers’ Liberty’s newly-updated pamphlet 'How to Beat the Racists', and Justine Candady Tower Hamlets Unison (pc) make the case for an anti-fascism rooted in working-class unity.
Saturday 5.40pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
🎟 Tickets and more: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 10, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Marx was aware of paper wealth — assets which give title to interest payments from the state. These now run at over £100 billion a year in the UK.

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Marx on debt and finance
Karl Marx opened Capital volume one with the words: “The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as ‘an immense accumulation of commodities’,...
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November 10, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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Some on the left saw, and still see, the post-1949 Maoist regime as progressive. Socialist activist Chan Ying will argue it was a brutal totalitarian regime.
On Saturday at 11.45am, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
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November 10, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Modern political agitation for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights started in the late 19th century with German socialists.

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Magnus Hirschfeld, LGBT pioneer
Picture: Magnus Hirschfeld Modern political agitation for gay, lesbian, and transgender rights started in the late 19th century with German socialists. By Peter Tatchell Over 100 years ago, the gay…
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November 10, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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The current thinking on AI job-replacement is “while embalmers and ships’ engineers are in less danger, translators and historians are stuffed”.

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Will AI take our jobs?
An article from the Times is currently doing the rounds. “The 20 jobs most at risk from AI – and the 20 safest” has clearly had quite a bit of traction, not least because the Times has been paying to…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Farage has appointed James Orr, a “ban all abortions” absolutist as well as a “curb immigration” ideologue, as an official policy adviser to Reform UK.

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A divine mandate for Nigel Farage?
Theology helping to create a “hell on earth” might be one way of describing the project of Professor James Orr, a member of the Cambridge University Divinity Faculty. His manic self-promoting…
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Anti-Capitalist Resistance (A*CR) adopted an eco-manifesto at their conference in 2024. It is guided by socialist idea but how central are its working-class demands?

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An eco-manifesto and a critique
Anti-Capitalist Resistance (A*CR) adopted an eco-manifesto at their conference in 2024. It has been the moving force in a number of annual Ecosocialism conferences, and, between them, an Ecosocialist…
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November 9, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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As trans rights face attacks from across the political spectrum two trans activists, Natalia Cassidy and Kacey de Groot, discuss how to build the fightback we need.
Saturday 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, Highbury, London.
🎟 Tickets/details: link.outsavvy.com/iff25
November 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
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Thirty six years ago on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down.
The Berlin Wall and socialism
See a printable election briefing based on this article. Thirty years ago, on 9 November 1989, the Berlin Wall came down. It was a wall built through Berlin by the rulers of East Germany, which…
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November 9, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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Outsourced workers employed by GRM at Newham Centre for Mental Health plan a further six weeks of strikes, in a significant escalation of their campaign for NHS-equivalent pay, terms and conditions.

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GFM strikes step up from 17 November
Outsourced workers at Newham Centre for Mental Health employed by GFM have announced a further six weeks of strikes, in a significant escalation of their campaign for NHS-equivalent pay, terms and…
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November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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What all the Your Party assemblies have shown so far is a deep desire for a grassroots-led movement and strict limits on central authority.

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YP members still want democracy
The promised regional assemblies for “Your Party” began from the weekend of 25 October. So far, each has followed a similar pattern: groups of about ten participants, each with a facilitator of…
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November 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Saturday 15 November is a global day of action to press the governments assembling at COP30.

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Protest for net zero on 15 November
Saturday 15 November is a global day of action to press the governments assembling at COP30, the 30th annual United Nations climate meeting, being held in Brazil 10-21 November. The prospects for…
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November 8, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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Two leaders of the union representing Serbian air traffic controllers were recently sacked as part of a union-busting campaign.

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Serbia air traffic controllers: Echoes of Ronald Reagan
Two leaders of the union representing Serbian air traffic controllers were recently sacked as part of a union-busting campaign. Ranko Radovanovic (president) and Igor Hajderpašić (secretary), leaders…
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November 8, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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Does national self-determination matter, or is it a distraction from class struggle? Workers’ Liberty debates Lotta Communista (en.internationalism.org).
On Saturday at 3.30pm, at IFF25 22-23 Nov, London.
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November 8, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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“Denialism” — a refusal to face up to the scale and reality of antisemitism in Labour under Corbyn — mars otherwise useful revelations about Labour's right.

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“The Fraud” and antisemitism denial
There is no shortage of tomes examining Keir Starmer’s rise to power and Paul Holden, the author of the latest, acknowledges that he has made use of them. Holden’s book, The Fraud: Keir Starmer,…
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November 8, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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Around 300 workers at the British Library are in the middle of a two-week strike over pay.

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British Library strikes over pay
Around 300 workers at the British Library are in the middle of a two-week strike over pay.
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November 7, 2025 at 7:01 PM
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To house asylum seekers and anyone who needs a home, we must demand a mass expansion of council housing and in a shorter timescale, converting existing buildings — and not disused barracks — to make them comfortable to live in.

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Jobs, homes, and benefits for asylum seekers
The government has announced the first two sites for a new scheme in which disused military barracks will be repurposed to house asylum seekers. The barracks, in Inverness and East Sussex, are…
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November 7, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Defend Our Juries reports that over 2,000 people have now been arrested at its demonstrations since the 5 July banning of Palestine Action. A new round of demonstrations is planned from 18 November.

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New wave of ban-defiance
Defend Our Juries reports that over 2,000 people have now been arrested at its demonstrations since the 5 July banning of Palestine Action. A new round of demonstrations is planned from 18 November.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:01 PM
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UCU strikes at Sheffield University will be accompanied by other industrial action, and will run over four weeks: 17-19 and 21 Nov; 24-26 and 27 Nov; 1-2 and 4-5 Dec; 9-12 Dec.

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Sheffield students back UCU strikes
The University and College Union (UCU) at Sheffield University will start strikes against cuts on 17 November.
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November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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There is one honour that has not been “stripped” from Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor – his hereditary right to rule. It should be. The same is true for all of the "royals".

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No king, no prince, no palaces!
Considering the weight of the evidence against him in the Epstein scandal, Prince Andrew should consider himself lucky that his punishment in Britain will consist of having his title as prince…
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November 7, 2025 at 9:01 AM
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"The most important political issue of the moment in France concerns the trade unions, or more precisely the trade union leadership."

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French government staggers on: will the unions act?
The most important political issue of the moment in France concerns the trade unions, or more precisely the trade union leadership. The separation of the “trade union” and the “political” is a…
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November 6, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Alon-Lee Green, co-director of Standing Together has said: “The ceasefire [in Gaza] is not yet a ceasefire. People are dying in Gaza every day... In the West Bank, Palestinians face daily terror from Israeli settlers and soldiers".

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Gaza needs a real ceasefire
Alon-Lee Green, co-director of the left-wing binational (Jewish-Palestinian) social movement in Israel, Standing Together, has said: “The ceasefire [in Gaza] is not yet a ceasefire. People are dying…
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November 6, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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Sheffield Hallam University has allowed a professor to resume her work on Uyghur forced labour in China after forcing her to stop the research for eight months.

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Retaining “business” vs freeing research
Sheffield Hallam University has allowed a professor to resume her work on Uyghur forced labour in China after forcing her to stop the research for eight months. Though the university vociferously…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:00 PM