The Alliance for Workers’ Liberty aims to build working-class solidarity through struggle. What is Workers’ Liberty? Free abortion on request.
Today one class, the working class, lives by selling its labour power to another, the capitalist class, which owns the means of production. Society is shaped by the capitalists’ relentless drive to increase their wealth. Capitalism causes poverty, unemployment, the blighting of lives by overwork, imperialism, the destruction of the environment and much else. Against the accumulated wealth and powe
22/06/2026
Starmer has resigned – a genuine debate and contest now needed for Labour leader
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22/06/2026
Jasr and Yaniv both gave speeches at Humanists UK’s Festival of Humanism 2026, on 13 June. The text of their speeches is below, republished with thanks, and with the permission of the authors, from UK FoST.
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21/06/2026
This week's "reference point" is Marx's March Address of 1850, a follow-up to the Communist Manifesto of 1848.
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21/06/2026
Ukraine asserts itself against Belarus
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19/06/2026
The election of Andy Burnham in Makerfield on 18 June was a push-back of Reform at their height. This is a constituency where Reform got just over half the vote in the 7 May 2026 local elections, reduced to 35% on 18 June 2026.
These results show that those who blame the rise of Reform on the Starmer leadership of the Labour Party are right, at least in part. With a campaign that was openly about “changing Labour” and almost as openly about removing Starmer’s leadership, Labour’s share of the vote rose to 55%.
There remains a long way to go in fighting Reform however. They still got over fifteen thousand votes. Worse, their far right rival Restore were the third placed party on over three thousand. Labour canvassers in Makerfield noted that Restore had an active doorstep campaign in areas such as Worsley Mesnes with flag-carrying supporters walking the streets, and - just like Reform - intimidation of Labour voters from displaying window posters.
There is a long way to go in the Labour Party too. As recently as February the Labour NEC ‘officers group’ - including representatives of two trades unions - voted to block Burnham from standing in Gorton and Denton, where there is no doubt that he could have won on a similar scale. What has changed is that Labour’s right wing have decided that Burnham’s is the ‘unity candidate’ for leadership (as Labour Together members were describing him to other canvassers during the campaign). Party employees across the country were directed to Makerfield, and MPs told by whips to attend...
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https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-06-19/after-makerfield-organise-labour-democracy?language_content_entity=en
Ideas for Freedom is a weekend of discussion, debate, and education, hosted by Workers’ Liberty.
This year it will take place on 21-22 November at Camden School for Girls, Sandall Rd, London NW5 2DB.
Saturday runs from 11am (registration) to 7pm. Sunday runs from 11am to 4.30pm.
Click here for Early Bird tickets — £40 waged, £20 low-waged and students, £7 unwaged. Solidarity price (weekend): £70. Tickets prices will go up at the start of September; day and half-day tickets will also be available then. Tickets can also be purchased on the door.
This year, a core theme of the event will be a celebration of 60 years of our political tendency. We will be reflecting on the key events and socialist debates of those years and discussing the future of the international revolutionary left.
More details about the sessions and arrangements (creche, food, crash accommodation) soon.
19/06/2026
After Makerfield, organise for Labour democracy
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19/06/2026
Yaser Ahmadinejad, an Iranian oil industry militant worker, has been sentenced to 33 months in jail. Please sign a statement demanding his release. bit.ly/free-ya
19/06/2026
Yaser Ahmadinejad, an Iranian oil industry militant worker, has been sentenced to 33 months in jail. Please sign a statement demanding his release.
Free Yaser Ahmadinejad now! As trade unionists and left-wing activists we express our solidarity with the Iranian comrade, oil worker and labour activist Yaser Ahmadinejad who has been jailed for 33 months by Iran’s rigged courts working for the clerical dictatorship. He was accused of propagandising against the Islamic Repu...
17/06/2026
In retrospect: Marx, Thatcher, and Sunday shopping
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