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See Page 5 Week on Average So& Wloirkdersa’ Lirbeirtty y No 268 12 December 2012 30p/80p www.workersliberty.org For a workers’ government Help Congolese Plan B in Greece Marx and Lenin workers! pages 6-7 on press freedom page 3 page 10 Tories squeeze poor to boost profits Corporation tax cut to 21%. Benefits cut by £5 a See page 5 week on average. 2 CAMPAIGN What is the Alliance for Steps forward for left student campaign Workers’ Liberty? By Luke Neal Women’s, LGBTQ, Black might be accomplished education and campaigns. Power, Disabled, Interna - here. The clause in Policies to extend the cam - Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to The National Campaign NCAFC’s new constitution another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of tional Students — elected paign’s focus towards areas Against Fees and Cuts reps and people to sit on the facilitating emergency con - such as the NHS, student production. Society is shaped by the capitalists’ held its fifth national con - relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism NC (all independents, ex - ferences of delegates from debt, housing and organis - causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives ference at Birmingham cept the Women’s Cam - local activist groups re - ing student workers were by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the Guild of Students on 8-9 paign which elected a flected these lessons. adopted, and a proposal to environment and much else. December. About 120 stu - committee that will decide It was decided to call an - facilitate a speaker tour Against the accumulated wealth and power of the dent activists took part. its NC rep). other conference within six with a striking Wal-Mart or capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity. Conference voted over - months to discuss the set - Many were independent fast-food worker from the The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build solidarity through whelming (with only SWP ting up of something like a left students, in addition to US. struggle so that the working class can overthrow capitalism. We want and Socialist Action trying “Fighting Federation of Stu - groups from Workers’ Lib - A Royal Holloway socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, to block it), to develop the dent Unions”, i.e. an alter - Labour Club motion to de - workers’ control and a democracy much fuller than the present system, erty, the Socialist Party, the native SU federation SWP and Socialist Action. structures of the campaign mand trade unions fight for with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to by agreeing a formal consti - organising independently bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. The latter two groups had free education, including in tution with individual of NUS. Whether NCAFC We fight for the labour movement to break with “social partnership” again come with a sectarian the Labour Party, passed membership and an affilia - should operate within NUS and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses. agenda. but was predictably contro - tion system for anti-cuts was a contested point — we versial. After several critical Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, This time, however, their generally believe it should. groups and student unions, socialist contributions, So - supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping disruption failed. The con - A sizeable number of in - organise rank-and-file groups. as well as a charter of politi - cialist Action’s motion pre - ference was extremely dem - dependents, reacting to the We are also active among students and in many campaigns and cal demands. senting Venezuela as a ocratic and constructive, record of the SWP, as well alliances. model for free education with lots of time for mo - STEP their own scepticism about tions, good-natured debate As the NCAFC has been the possibilities of working was rejected. There was a We stand for: and positive discussion and lively debate on how to ex - G Independent working-class representation in politics. held back by lack of in NUS, voted against the planning in the workshops. structure, this is a step SWP proposal to work to - press our opposition to war G A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour and militarism. The confer - movement. Workshop topics included forward. wards a united left chal - ence also passed policy in G A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to strike, to further education and lenge at the 2013 NUS picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. schools organisation, inter - The NCAFC should now conference. Workers’ Lib - solidarity with Tamil stu - G Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education national students, what’s be stronger, more dynamic erty’s Rosie Huzzard spoke dents in Jaffna suffering re - and jobs for all. happening in higher educa - and responsive during peri - in favour of the proposal pression from the Sri G A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full tion, organising at work, the ods of heightened struggle. and it passed with support Lankan state. equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden lessons of the Quebec strug - There was much debate from many independents. The NCAFC is the only of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay, gle, abortion rights, student about the federal model of But conference voted down forum where left student bisexual and transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity union democracy and cam - organisation used by the attempts to say that left activists with different against racism. paigning on the NHS. radical student federation unity should include “Stu - views can debate political G Open borders. The conference elected a ASSÉ which led the recent dent Broad Left”. issues while organising to - G Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have national committee of 14 student uprising in Québec, The conference passed a geTthheorsfeorwsheroiohuasvsetrbuegegnles. more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist people (nine independents, and how — in the absence motion that argued that, in - rulers. involved in the NCAFC’s one from SA’s front “Stu - of the long-established de - stead of waiting next “big Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or development should be G partmental associations community to global social organisation. dent Broad Left”, four bang”, during the relative proud of what has been G Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all Workers’ Liberty) and au - which form the base of lull in struggles NCAFC achieved so far. nations, against imperialists and predators big and small. tonomous caucuses — ASSÉ — something similar must develop organisation, G Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate. G If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell — and join us! Barnet against Capita Fight Sheffield early years cuts Contact us: By Vicki Morris By Rosie Huzzard parents, but also a range of intervention and prevention G 020 7394 8923 G [email protected] On Thursday 6 December On 4 December, Sheffield services to working class around 50 Barnet resi - The editor (Cathy Nugent), 20e Tower Workshops, Riley City Council announced a families, including health Road, London, SE1 3DG. dents took over a com - “redesign” to Sheffield’s visitors, inclusion work, G Printed by Trinity Mirror mittee room in Hendon Early Years services (in - Town Hall for an hour, and and in-home support. cluding both public and The council has told the ran an impromptu resi - voluntary sector nurseries dents’ forum. local press that there will be Get Solidarity every week! and children’s centres). "no impact" on children or Tory Cabinet members This will mean cuts in intervention work. But in - G Trial sub, 6 issues £5 were forced to adjourn to one-day strikes by the Uni - front line provision serving tervention money is being another room to do their son branch, but these have 9000 people in Sheffield, re - redirected to the city’s Multi G 22 issues (six months). £18 waged work. not been enough to deter ducing the 36 sites to 17 Agency team, which cur - £9 unwaged We were protesting at the Tories and the outsourc - "areas", the removal of rently works with the most their decision to grant a G 44 issues (year). £35 waged ing companies from pursu - statutory funding to 16 vol - at-risk families. The services contract to outsourcing ing their privatisation £17 unwaged untary sector services, the under threat deliver a dis - giant Capita to run a large agenda. The residents’ cam - tinctly different service G European rate: 28 euros (22 issues) chunk of services for 10-15 effective removal of funding paign has however built which can prevent the need years, under the Council’s for one and two year olds or 50 euros (44 issues) reaWl emaormeednetutemrm. ined that for "responsive" work. “One Barnet” privatisation across Sheffield, and at least Tick as appropriate above and send your money to: Barnet’s especially arro - programme. 150 redundancies. Staff families and sup - gant and stupid Tories will 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London, SE1 3DG The contract, worth £320- These changes are based porters are demonstrating pay a political price for Cheques (£) to “AWL”. 750 million, will entail on a review of Early Years at a public meeting with their misdeeds. in Sheffield published councillors on Wednesday Or make £ and euro payments at workersliberty.org/sub. around 500 staff, currently delivering services such as • Barnet Council will go around nine months ago, 12 December. The campaign which has had no subse - has also produced a briefing Name . revenues and benefits, to court on 18 December for transfering to Capita em - a possession order against quent consultation with paper, and there is a peti - staff, parents or trade tion at tinyurl.com/ Address .
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