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No 243 25 April 2012 30P/80P for a Workers’ Government So& Wloirkdersa’ Lirbeirtty y No 243 25 April 2012 30p/80p www.workersliberty.org For a workers’ government Strikes in Fighting the Tower Hamlets Burma Tories: what next? school strike page 3 pages 6-7 page 11 Hollande: France will “amend” EU cuts plan Fight to “They are reassuring the markets, but what reverse about us?” French protest against austerity measures See page Euro-cuts! 5 Rally the European left to defeat far-right nationalists NEWS What is the Alliance Missed chances in 3 May polls? for Workers’ Liberty? Today one class, the working class, lives by selling By Colin Foster Labour stronghold, looks oral campaign “poor” or its labour power to another, the capitalist class, in danger of being cap - “awful”. which owns the means of production. Society Tory MP Nadine Dorries tured by the Scottish Na - George Galloway’s Re - is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to said it: the Government tional Party, which for spect group has been increase their wealth. Capitalism causes is led by “two arrogant many has more credibility boosted by his Bradford poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by posh boys who show no as a representative of “old- West by-election victory on overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the remorse, no contrition, Labour”-type reformism 29 March. It was previ - environment and much else. and no passion to want than Labour currently has. ously on the verge of shut - Against the accumulated wealth and power of the to understand the lives In October 2011 an anx - ting up shop, but will now capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity. of others”. ious Labour Party hierar - hold a national conference chy sent officials to in June. At short notice it The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build solidarity As council elections and manipulate the selection of Livingstone is losing the has been able to muster 12 through struggle so that the working class can overthrow referenda on whether cities council candidates, and the charisma battle candidates for the 30 coun - capitalism. We want socialist revolution: collective ownership want elected mayors ap - officials deselected 16 cil wards in Bradford, but of industry and services, workers’ control and a democracy proach on 3 May, Labour councillors with a total of of mayoral candidate Ken in Birmingham, where it much fuller than the present system, with elected has at last begun to pull 190 years on the council. Livingstone have become a once had a number of representatives recallable at any time and an end to ahead in the polls, leading Deselected Labour coun - handicap rather than an councillors, it proposes a bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. the Tories by a margin var - cillors have formed a electoral asset: he lags be - vote for the Greens. We fight for the labour movement to break with “social iously estimated between group called “Glasgow hind the Tories’ Boris John - The Trade Unionist and partnership” and assert working-class interests militantly 7% and 13%. First”, which will stand 22 son in polls, by a margin Socialist Coalition (a group It would be much more against the bosses. candidates on 3 May, prob - varying from 6% to 2%. run by the Socialist Party if Labour’s leaders cam - Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, ably taking votes from Although only 14% of with some leaders of the paigned properly against supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, Labour, and two other des - people polled think John - RMT rail union) is running the Tory cuts and against helping organise rank-and-file groups. elected Labour representa - son is “in touch with the in the list section in Lon - those whom Ed Miliband We are also active among students and in many campaigns tives will stand as concerns of ordinary peo - don (not the constituency rightly calls “the preda - and alliances. independents. ple”, he has outdone Liv - section, and not the may - tors”. But for 3 May For the Greater London ingstone in the “colourful oral contest. Labour council candidates A YouGov poll shows it We stand for: Assembly election, Labour maverick” act. 50% say are saying they will com - scoring 0%, but such Independent working-class representation in politics. has an opinion-poll lead of Johnson has “charisma”, G ply with Government cuts, polls may be very inac - 9% in the constituency sec - and only 15% will say the G A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the only softening them. curate for smaller par - tion and 11% in the list sec - same for Livingstone. 38% labour movement. As a result, Glasgow ties. tion. The individual quirks judge Livingstone’s may - G A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to City Council, long a strike, to picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. G Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, Woodford, Essex. education and jobs for all. with a pregnancy. We need blocked the rush hour traf - G A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. A group calling them - to remember why women fic. Full equality for women and social provision to free women selves the “Helpers of fought for the legalisation Many of those on the from the burden of housework. Free abortion on request. Full God's Precious Infants” at - of“aBbeofrotiroent. he 1967 Abor - protest were workers at equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. tempted to stop women tion Act women were the centres; some were Black and white workers’ unity against racism. from attending their ap - forced to resort to dan - scared of being seen on the G Open borders. pointment at the clinic. gerous methods of ter - protest but all had been G Global solidarity against global capital — workers They held up images of mination. Today 1 in 8 collecting petitions and everywhere have more in common with each other than with foetuses and blocked one women die undergoing joining with parents to op - their capitalist or Stalinist rulers. side of the road, handing unsafe backstreet abor - pose the cuts to jobs and G Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest out flyers which claimed tions in places where it services. workplace or community to global social organisation. that abortion will “damage is still illegal.” Many of the workers G Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal your maternal instinct and said they were Unison rights for all nations, against imperialists and predators big Stop ... bonding process with Feminist Fightback members and that there www.feministfightback.org.uk had been no meetings to and small. any other children you let them know what was G Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate. anti-choice have” and can lead to “al - cohol, drug abuse and eat - happening. G If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity harassment! Consultation meetings to sell — and join us! ing disorders.” When feminist activists will take place at each cen - 020 7394 8923 [email protected] On Saturday 21 April attempted to intervene to tre — parents and workers Feminist Fightback and stop this harassment they will attend all of those 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, other pro-choice ac - were met with aggression. meetings making their op - London, SE1 3DG. tivists tried to prevent One pro-choice activist position clear. anti-abortion extremists was head butted by a par - We now need union from marching to a ticularly zealous “pro- meetings to organise bal - Marie Stopes clinic in lifer.” lots for action and a co-or - Soon after reaching the dinated ongoing GET SOLIDARITY clinic Feminist Fightback Save Sure coMmemrusenyitsyidcaemWpoamigenn. Anti-fascist decided to leave in order Against the Cuts and to reduce disruption for Start! Liverpool Against the EVERY WEEK! success service users. Cuts will be helping with Special offers Such extremist tactics, On Thursday 19 April a that co-ordination. Anti-fascists in imported from the United colourful and noisy G Trial sub, 6 issues £5 Brighton succeeded in States, have been on the protest of 250 women, Jayne Edwards massively outnumber - rise in the UK in recent children and men, plus G 22 issues (six months). £18 waged £9 unwaged ing and disrupting the months. Another abortion teddy bears and bal - Alfie annual far-right clinic in Bloomsbury, Lon - 44 issues (year). £35 waged £17 unwaged loons took place in op - G “March for England” don was targeted through - position to cuts in Sure Meadows on Sunday 22 April. out the whole of March by G European rate: 28 euros (22 issues) or 50 euros (44 issues) Start nursery care provi - the 40 Days for Life cam - Nationalists were re - sion in Liverpool. On 18 April a jury failed paign, which used similar duced to a curtailed to reach a verdict on Tick as appropriate above and send your money to: tactics of intimidation and The council is planning march and tiny rally in - whether Alfie Meadows, harassment. to cut close 10 of 26 Sure 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London, SE1 3DG side a police cordon, the student activist Feminists and the pro- Start centres. This will Cheques (£) to “AWL”. well away from their nearly beaten to death choice movement are now mean job cuts as well as planned route. by a policeman on a Or make £ and euro payments at workersliberty.org/sub. stepping up to take on this the devastation of child - The success is a vindi - demonstration in 2010, kind of harassment. One of care services people rely cation for direct-action was in fact guilty of vio - these activists, Katie Cruz on.
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