So& Wloirkdersa’ Lirbeirtty y No 292 17 July 2013 30p/80p www.workersliberty.org For a workers’ government Protesting for SWP debates Syriza’s new Trayvon Martin Leninism challenges page 2-3 page 4 page 10 Yes, unions should rule Labour WORKERS NEED UNIONS AND A POLITICAL VOICE SEE PAGES 5-8 2 NEWS Orgreave Truth What is the Alliance for Jimmy Mubenga was and Justice Workers’ Liberty? Campaign Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to “unlawfully killed” The Orgreave Truth another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. and Justice Campaign Society is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to (OTJC) has been es - By Ira Berkovic ment to write up and col - increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, tablished to campaign late their accounts of the unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, for an independent imperialism, the destruction of the environment and The inquest into the event, in which they public enquiry into the much else. death of Angolan depor - claimed Mubenga forced policing at Orgreave Against the accumulated wealth and power of the tee Jimmy Mubenga re - himself into the unsafe po - Coke works during the capitalists, the working class has one weapon: solidarity. turned a verdict of sition, thus causing his own 1984-85 Miners’ Strike. The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build solidarity through “unlawful killing” on death. struggle so that the working class can overthrow capitalism. We want Tuesday 9 July. Evidence from passen - The campaign focuses socialist revolution: collective ownership of industry and services, Mubenga was killed in gers, however, attested that particularly on events of workers’ control and a democracy much fuller than the present system, October 2010 when he was Mubenga had been forced, 18 June 1984, when 95 with elected representatives recallable at any time and an end to the family Jimmy leaves handcuffed, belted, and re - face-first, into the doubled- miners were arrested bureaucrats’ and managers’ privileges. behind, but it can help us strained in an unsafe posi - up position by the G4S and later charged with We fight for the labour movement to break with “social partnership” expose the brutality at tion aboard a British guards, who the inquest riot or unlawful assem - and assert working-class interests militantly against the bosses. the heart of Britain’s im - Airways flight by G4S also exposed had shared bly; the former charge Our priority is to work in the workplaces and trade unions, migration system and im - guards. Following his racist texts. carrying a possible life supporting workers’ struggles, producing workplace bulletins, helping The verdict cannot migration controls death, the guards colluded sentence at the time. The organise rank-and-file groups. bring relief or justice for themselves. We are also active among students and in many campaigns and with G4S senior manage - cases were subsequently alliances. dropped, but no apology has ever been offered. We stand for: Malta plan to “push back” refugees Campaigners also be - ● Independent working-class representation in politics. lieve an independent en - ● A workers’ government, based on and accountable to the labour quiry could reveal the movement. halted after protests truth about the policing ● A workers’ charter of trade union rights — to organise, to strike, to operation at Orgreave. picket effectively, and to take solidarity action. Sign the campaign’s ● Taxation of the rich to fund decent public services, homes, education petition at bit.ly/otjc-pe - By Alan Thez taken over by armed mili - viewed and processed and jobs for all. tition, and promote the tias who have survived the properly, and Maltese ● A workers’ movement that fights all forms of oppression. Full campaign (including by A Maltese government struggle for power between lawyers have challenged equality for women and social provision to free women from the burden inviting a speaker) in plan to send back Somali Gaddafi and anti-Gaddafi the government on this of housework. Free abortion on request. Full equality for lesbian, gay, your union branch/com - refugees from Libya has forces. basis. bisexual and transgender people. Black and white workers’ unity munity group. against racism. been halted, for now, by Malta rescued 170 of This has given the For more info, visit ● Open borders. protests, just hours be - them on Monday 8 and refugees a breathing space, the campaign website ● Global solidarity against global capital — workers everywhere have fore their midnight Air Tuesday 9 July, but the but does not guarantee at www.otjc.org.uk more in common with each other than with their capitalist or Stalinist Malta flight to Tripoli's government planned to re - their safety. The weakness rulers. military airport. turn all but the “most vul - of a purely legalistic ap - ● Democracy at every level of society, from the smallest workplace or Dozens of people who nerable” until the ECHR proach is exposed by the Anti-Fascist community to global social organisation. had gathered outside the intervened at the request of opposition National Party ● Working-class solidarity in international politics: equal rights for all police HQ at Fontiana (just a coalition of anti-deporta - leader Dr. Simon Busitti nations, against imperialists and predators big and small. outside the capital Val - tion and civil rights groups. hypocritically calling Mus - Network Maximum left unity in action, and openness in debate. ● letta's city gates) in a “stop Malta’s Labour prime cat xenophobic — yet de - ● If you agree with us, please take some copies of Solidarity to sell — minister, Joseph Muscat, fending his own party’s mobilises and join us! the trucks” demo, cheered as they heard that the Euro - claimed, “This is not push- 2003 decision to deport Er - pean Court of Human back, it is a signal we are itrean refugees back to their Anti-fascists in Croydon, Contact us: Rights (ECHR) had issued not push-overs” — a refer - dictator-led homeland on south London, have called an interim measure to stop ence to Silvio Berlusconi's the grounds that interna - a counter-mobilisation 020 7394 8923 [email protected] ● ● the deportations. 2003 “Push Back” agree - tional law was different against a planned action The editor (Cathy Nugent), 20e Tower Workshops, Riley ment with Gaddafi to re - then! by the English Volunteer Over 1,000 black African Meanwhile the small Road, London, SE1 3DG. refugees fled Libya over turn 200 Somali and Force, a right-wing Eritrean refugees to Libya. “Alternativva splinter from the EDL, on ● Printed by Trinity Mirror two days in a mass escape Demokratika” party has by sea in dingies and rafts. The ECHR recently de - Saturday 27 July. clared this Italian push criticised PM Muscat for The official assembly Many of Libya’s country’s spoiling Malta’s “good already-notorious deten - back to be a violation of point, announced by local human rights, as asylum name” in the world's unions and UAF, is Get Solidarity every week! tion centres are now possi - eyes. bly even more dangerous, seekers were not inter - 11.30am at Lunar House, ● Trial sub, 6 issues £5 o 40 Wellesley Road, CR9 ● 22 issues (six months). £18 waged o 2BY. The South London £9 unwaged o Anti-Fascist group, which Bailiffs evict Brixton flats is independent of UAF and ● 44 issues (year). £35 waged o affiliated to the national £17 unwaged o Anti-Fascist Network cades on 15 July to resist ● European rate: 28 euros (22 issues) o the council calls “a signifi - (AFN), will also have a eviction by bailiffs and presence on the day. or 50 euros (44 issues) o cant capital receipt”. police from the homes The council claims it is AFN is also calling for a Tick as appropriate above and send your money to: they had lived in for 13 supporting residents in direct-action mobilisation 20e Tower Workshops, Riley Road, London, SE1 3DG years. finding alternative housing, to counter a planned EDL action in Tower Hamlets, Cheques (£) to “AWL”. Police raided an apart - but a local resident said: “A ment block on Rushcroft letter a few weeks ago sug - East London, on Saturday Or make £ and euro payments at workersliberty.org/sub. Road, Brixton, to evict resi - gesting eviction proceed - 7 September. There will be dents who had been squat - ings would begin from [15 a public meeting to Name . ting the building since July]. discuss the mobilisation 2000. “No warrants or evic - on Tuesday 30 July, Address . Lambeth Council plans tion notices have been 7.30pm, Oxford House, to create 22 socially-rented given, and many of the Derbyshire Road, E2 6GH. By Jonny West homes in the blocks, but residents, with lifelong For more info nearer the medical conditions, have time, see I enclose £ . also plans to sell off three Residents in Brixton, of the six blocks for luxury had virtually no help with antifascistnetwork. south London, built barri - housing, to generate what being re-housed.” wordpress.com 3 NEWS The verdict on American racism By Keeanga-Yamahtta disproportionate levels of explicitly racist law was Taylor poverty, or higher levels of taken off the books, that imprisonment, or harass - racism is no longer an issue Shock, horror and then ment at the hands of police, in American life. rage. These were the or higher levels of foreclo - Next month will mark feelings experienced by sures and evictions, or the the 50th anniversary of the tens of thousands of peo - mass closures of the “March on Washington for ple across the country as schools they send their Jobs and Freedom,” where they struggled to com - children to. It’s always the Martin Luther King Jr. gave prehend the meaning of individual’s fault — and his famous “I Have a George Zimmerman’s ac - never the system that cre - Dream” speech.