Solidarity 684, 20 September 2023. Sorry for the delay, the person who normally records the audio is away. Solidarity 686 recording will be done soon, with 685 as a catch up after that. Articles may include:

A workers' response to Brexit

Autoworkers stand up strikes at the big three

PCS: nominate Lloyd and Moloney!

Pat Markey: "for the liberation of humanity"

Morning Star, Labour, and syndicalism

Union demands 12 months maternity for firefighters

Campaign continues to free Sarah Jane Baker

Australia: fossil-fuel export profits or climate action?

TUC votes to back Ukraine

TUC calls for action on anti-strike laws

Rutherglen by-election: Vote Labour!

New revolt against Assad in Syria

“Shout her name: Jina Amini”

Against the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh

Trump's White House: not yet lined up

A bold offer for US-nationalist economics

Refugees under attack in Turkey

Australia’s Voice to Parliament vote

Covid: isolation pay, ventilation, PPE, testing still needed!

Letter: Rustin, protest, and politics

Letter: Terfs, transphobes, and descriptors

Sheffield University strike from 18 September

Bristol campaign for buses

Scottish council workers to strike over pay

Real fight needed on Elizabeth Line pay

Doctors step up pay action

Wind-chill out on the track

Kino Eye: Fat Man and Little Boy

Unite strikes for NHS pay and staffing

Camden strikers: victory!

Strikes called for Tory conference

Health workers strike for re-banding

Protest against the barge

Kim Moody's "Breaking The Impasse": Review

Glasgow care workers strike

Beith munitions workers strike from 11 September

Glasgow FE college strikes

Unite and Ukraine: Not Good Enough!

John Keenan and the 1974 Pinochet boycott

University disputes: marking boycott called off, new strikes announced

Berlin housing expropriation campaign: the story so far

Letter: Driscoll candidacy a dead-end

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-684-20-september-2023

The left in Ukraine: Workers' Liberty 3/74, printed with Solidarity 683. Articles:

The left in Ukraine

Back Ukraine’s teachers and children

Student organising in Ukraine

Rescuing the Holocaust from Stalinism: Lviv

Rescuing the Holocaust from Stalinism: Babyn Yar

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/left

Solidarity 683, 6 September 2023. Pages 7-10 are a pullout on Ukraine, but will be released as a separate audio. (The previous description of this Audio was wrong, and has now been corrected.) Articles include some of:

Unless we tax the rich, worse is to come

PCS: now nominate left for GS and AGS!

Prigozhin: another mob murder

23 September: March to reverse Brexit!

Junior and senior doctors coordinate strikes

Iran: free all political prisoners!

Unite NHS workers strike for pay and staffing

Camden strikers are steadfast

Tax rich to cover building scandal costs!

Alan McArthur 1972-2023

Tory is “spot on” about China, says Star

Pat Markey

Behind the Rubiales row

Workers’ Liberty summer camp

Sarah Jane Baker cleared. Now free her!

US "summer of strikes" and politics

Israel: from protest to politics

Arkadij Maslow: “More zeal than sense”

The magpie and the beeps

St. Mungo’s workers end strike

A film about the 1973 Chile coup

Recognition claim pushes Amazon into permanent contracts

Yes, we should negotiate in the open!

Free Sarah and change the left

Recruiting among students

Letter: Driscoll candidacy a dead-end

Postal workers in France: years of battle

Against the blockade of Nagorno-Karabakh

The new “rank-and-file” conferences

A workers' representative on a workers' wage

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-683-6-september-2023

Israel out of the Occupied Territories! For a Palestinian state with the same rights as Israel! For Arab-Jewish workers' unity on a basis of consistent democracy! For a socialist Israel and a socialist Palestine in a socialist federation of the Middle East!

This Pamphlet contains articles, debates and more setting out Workers' Liberty's position on the conflict in Israel-Palestine arguing that a two-state solution, where a contiguous Israel and Palestine exist with equal rights, is the best starting point for ending that conflict.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Socialists and the intifada

Chronology of a conflict

The origins of the conflict part 1

The origins of the conflict part 2

Unravelling the issues part 1

Unravelling the issues part 2

Marxism and the Jewish Question

Two States, or 'Secular Democratic State'? There is no 'democratic' way to wipe out Israel!

Boycott? A Jew-hunt won't help the Palestinians

The Stalinist roots of left anti-Zionism part 1

The Stalinist roots of left anti-Zionism part 2

A mirror for anti-Zionists

What is Islamic fundamentalism?

What is left anti-semitism?

Ken Livingstone and anti-semitism

More online: https://workersliberty.org/2n2s

Solidarity 682, 23 August 2023. Articles include:

Stop profit drive frying the planet

PCS: when "continue campaign" means dump it

Behind the Bibby Stockholm scandal

Support doctors' pay fight

Stop Labour backtracking!

TUC: calls for action on anti-union laws

Keeping up with the Star

Fourth woman faces illegal abortion charge

Azerbaijan: new unions emerge

Free Sarah Jane Baker!

Inflation: causes and socialist responses

Building a new revolutionary party in France

Putin jails more dissidents

Students plan for the new term

Letter: Neither "October" was a coup

Big-power manoeuvres behind Niger coup

Ukraine: it’s not a US “proxy war”

The Kremlin line on the Ukraine war

America braced for Trump trials

SWP in PCS: where's the politics?

Chile: "revolution by half"

War and poverty in Ethiopia

Alliances with the soft left?

Letter: Wrong on the Driscoll campaign

A letter to some comrades

Traffic wardens: “Low pay? No way!”

UCU: dangers of reballot delay

Amazon: not just a number

More strikes in TOCs dispute: escalation still needed

Another view on "Troublemakers"

Diary of a trackworker: the miracle of the S bend

Diary of a firefighter: Fire Brigade cuts annual leave

Kino Eye: The marriage of Maria Braun

The "legacy" of James Connolly

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-682-23-august-2023

Solidarity 681, 2 August 2023. Articles include:

PCS: reasons for voting no

Doctors strike in August

Kino Eye: Milan Kundera (1929-2023) and a “joke” about Trotsky

Trackworkers back in the day

Unite: industrial advances yet to feed into politics

Ukrainian unions back Scottish strike

How can the union activist layer revive?

UCU: risk of ballot delay

Workers' Liberty Australia makes new turn

Stop the charges on migrants! Tax the rich!

Labour after the by elections

Driscoll's opt-out is a misstep

Regrouping in local government

Free Sarah Jane Baker

A parent's view on trans rights in schools

The German October

Why are thousands of women jailed each year?

Minimum service law passes: demand repeal, prepare defiance!

Heatwave shows urgency of green policies

After NPF, make unions fight back!

NEU: setback, but elements to build on

Into the black box of AI

Transform - new party or a waste of time?

Security guards step up UCL campaign

Parking wardens on indefinite strike

Putin in anti-trans, anti-gay drive

Trumpist right targets the unions

Starmer and the two-child cap

Protest to stop the atrocities in Manipur!

LUL dispute: concessions are real but suspending strikes is a misstep

Amazon strikes spread

The addled rebirth of Eurocommunism

Grammar schools: state-funded engines of educational exclusion

Ideas for Freedom 2023: uplifting and yet nuanced

Open letter: why is Israel the exception?

Stop the charges for migrants! Tax the rich!

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-681-2-august-2023

Solidarity 680, 12 July 2023. Articles include:

Agitate for socialism!

To rebuild services: tax the rich!

Beijing sets bounties on activists

Against Putin: victory to Ukraine!

Morning Star veers even more anti-Ukraine

The US left, Ukraine, and Biden

Pro-choice plans for 2 September

Capitalism and converging crises

France: cops and courts on a rampage

Four days in west Ukraine

Hugo Blanco 1934-2023

Some “affirmative action” still thrives

The left and a famous cartoonist

Connolly and the 1916 Rising, part 2

Doctors demand pay redress

First bout of management double-speak

The gleaners and society

Royal Mail deal approved

NEU: 5-7 July strikes strong

Local government: after the ballot setback

PCS leaders push for "pause"

Universities: risk of a shoddy deal

Build for week of Tube strikes, and follow up!

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-680-12-july-2023

Solidarity 679, 5 July 2023. Articles include:

Public ownership for public services

Labour must repeal anti-asylum laws

Prigozhin future unclear, but Putin weaker

Israel out of the West Bank!

Conspiracy theory and invented “bans”

RMT commits to demo on anti-strike laws

Workers’ rights violations at “record high”

The end of affirmative action

Surveillance cameras tighten hijab rule

Profit interests block climate action

Public services and democratic control

France: against the police who kiill!

Report indicts spycops, but 40 years on

A primer of tankie-talk

No level playing field in cricket

The politics of the ChatGPT hype

Connolly and the 1916 Rising

School strikes and ballots

Royal Mail deal: vote no!

Ode to the pole

Will Lawson scandal be a watershed?

An exceptional spy film

Doctors now lead NHS pay fight

UCL security guards fight back

UCU: a reballot is essential

PCS pay climbdown unravels

Ticket office closures loom: step up the strikes!

Tube bosses unveil “attendance” plans

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-679-5-july-2023

Solidarity 678, 28 June 2023. Articles include:

Their economic crisis

Decriminalise abortion; expand provision; as early as possible, as late as necessary

Junior doctors strike 13-17 July

Putin, Prigozhin, and the coup

Old friends and conspiracy theories

Chiatura’s miners once again in struggle

To reach “green steel”, fight capitalism

Sport official charged after protests

After first result, campaign against university clampdowns will step up

Strikers arrested by Myanmar military

For a socialised care system!

Greece lurches to the right

China and the world’s largest army

Hope and despair at Holyrood

The case of Madame Dampierre

Yes, more from Harper

We can’t be inspector-general

Dora Montefiore: a half-forgotten socialist feminist

Dirty, stumbling and provoking

NHS pay: regroup and prepare

Tube: time for the unions to move

False "ruling-out" in Unite

Openings on new Unison NEC

Tory push against transgender students

The Tree of Wooden Clogs

PCS members oppose dispute wind-down

University bosses stay stubborn

A new Social Democratic Party in Burma?

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-678-28-june-2023

Solidarity 677, 21 June 2023. Articles include:

How to get the Tories out

No more refugee shipwrecks! Open the borders!

Campaign opposes PCS climbdown

Inflation, disinflation, and exploitation

Postal workers to ballot from 22 June

The Morning Star still has time for Johnson

What Washington can teach London about history

Push Labour and unions on abortion rights

North Sea: fight for the workers’ plan

US bosses pursue child labour

Junior doctors keep up the fight

Biden fêtes Modi

Free Russian internationalist Igor Kuznetsov!

Jews in the anti-racist imagination

Rail: escalating out of deadlock?

Yes, Trump is fascist

Connolly on Ireland and "permanent revolution"

Is Solidarity collapsing into XR?

Unison: after conference, turn to campaigning

Not just populist

Let’s hear more from Harper

Documentary with the pain stripped out

An empire massacres its own troops

UCU boycott nears the crunch

Mass pickets at Amazon

Schools to strike again on 5 and 7 July

More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-677-21-june-2023