Solidarity 649, 19 October 2022. Articles include:

Capitalism: a new crisis

Private affluence and public squalor

Strikes still stepping up

One-day, indefinite and other strikes

Strikes and strike ballots

Paul Mason is wrong, but less wrong than Nick Wright

Pages from a militant life: Halfway house on healthcare

Where next for environment activism?

Threats force trans-rights cancellations

Letter: More on secularism

41 dead in Turkish mining disaster

A new world food system

Thakin Soe: Burmese Trotskyist?

Action on Covid-19

How Tories won a huge swing in Leicester amidst Truss debacle

67% of Labour voters want to rejoin EU

Shifts in the world order

Workers’ Assemblies for aviation

New mood in Further Education

Anger and resolve in Royal Mail fight

NHS pay ballots begin

How Arriva bus drivers won an 11% pay rise

Honesty on pay offers

Diary of a Tube worker: Something up, but they’re not telling us

Liverpool dockers out again from 24 October

Kino Eye: Banned books burned

Teachers look to strike in January

London Underground workers will strike again

National Coal Mining Museum strikes

Putin’s new recruits start dying in Ukraine

Strikes: seize the time while Tories flounder

Kick the Tories out!

Spinoza, democracy and socialism: four articles

Return to Gate Gourmet!

1968: Martin Luther King and the Memphis sanitation strike

Marcus Garvey and the socialists

The French revolution and black liberation

School history and Black Lives Matter

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-649-19-october-2022

Solidarity 648, 12 October 2022. Articles may include:

Putin threatens nuclear war

Socialism vs Trussonomics

From piecemeal strikes to class-wide battle

Upcoming strike dates

If Chris Williamson’s the answer, it’s the wrong question

Ukraine: the proxy fallacy

Unveil Iran!

Action on Covid-19

Letter: Qatar, Al Jazeera, Israel and The Labour Files

Capitalist farming is wasteful

From US strikes to politics

Aviation: already approaching disaster point

Why secularism matters

The debate on exclusion

Taking the line from the Irish nationalists

Ireland on the dissecting table

The 19 days in Royal Mail

Battling a 2.5% pay offer in FE

Schools formal ballot opens 1 November

Diary of a paramedic: Queueing to get into hospital

Pages from a militant life: The paradox of the 1980s

Kino Eye: Coal Miner’s Daughter

A sense of confidence (John Moloney's column)

Liverpool dockers strike again

Unite members reject TfL pay offer

UAL cleaners plan to escalate

Why we welcome Ukrainian victories

Campaign to raise benefits!

Getting the union onto construction sites

Socialists and the Green Party

"Unite for a Workers' Economy"

The economics of inflation

Honour and learn from the Grunwick strike!

Haitian revolution vs British empire

John Archer: black pioneer of labour politics

How transport workers beat the colour bar

An organiser for black workers

More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-648-12-october-2022

Solidarity 647, 5 October 2022. Articles include:

Strikes pick up the pace

Upcoming strike dates

Free Our Unions protest on 10 October

Strikes are spreading

Battles win concessions

A right royal cop-out

The Russian people are winning

Women's Fightback: Transphobes lose it over story-telling alien

Letter: 280 million years too late

Iran rises up for women's rights

Action on Covid

Russia's "No" to military call up

Labour conference shows the need for political work in the unions

Proving us wrong?

The Labour Files: neither revealing nor convincing

Putin and the opposition

Belgrade reminds us: Pride is a protest

Truss, Kwarteng and economics

How capitalist farming destroys our world environment

Myanmar: reconciliation or revolt?

Ukrainian trade unionists battle against Putin and for rights

Council pay: looking to 2023

Strong pickets at London universities

Liverpool dockers determined to win

Diary of a Crossrail worker: Pressure increases

Pages from a militant life: Ten years since the QCH dispute

Kino Eye: The films that gave us "gaslighting"

John Moloney's column: More young workers joining

Outsourced workers win staff travel passes

Luton couriers stage protest

Russia annexes parts of Ukraine, Putin threatens nuclear war

Solidarity with Italy's workers and oppressed

Kick the Tories out!

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-647-5-october-2022

Solidarity 646, 21 September 2022. Articles:

Protest now against new anti-union laws

Squeezing the right to strike

Trade union laws since the 1980s

Unite, accelerate, spread the strikes

Trash Ukraine to curb prices?

A spectre is haunting Europe

Far right rallies 70,000 in Prague

Demand justice for Chris Kaba - fight to curb the police

The case against fracking

Freeze rents, expand council housing

Ukrainian victories are step forward to liberation

Action on Covid-19

Women's Fightback: On not sleeping with political contacts

Letter: Abuse is easier online

"Used by the profit-mongers to blind the people": Keir Hardie on the monarchy

Pro-monarchy “consensus” is a fake

"Heeds not the shriek of penury"

James Connolly on the working class and monarchy

Pages from a militant life: Why are there homeless in a rich society?

Armed struggle in Myanmar

Students face cost-of-living crunch

Labour conference: will unions rebuke Starmer?

The valuable, critical Marxism of Paul Le Blanc

What was James Connolly's alternative to partition?

Ukrainian socialists hold conference

More Trump plots and mayhem

Putin and the opposition

Russia’s anarcho-communist rail saboteurs

Last Times where “nothing has ended”

Putin pushes rail workers to join army

Strikes at start of university term

Architecture workers could strike

Timing next Tube strikes

Vote Daniel Randall for RMT NEC

Good results so far in NHS

Nurses: the mood is shifting

Diary of an engineer: “Even I’m going on strike”

Jean-Luc Godard, 1930-2022

PCS ballots go out soon

Royal Mail: a stand against bullying

Truss: foolish but dangerous

Energy: make Labour demand public ownership

Speak out against the monarchy!

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-646-21-september-2022

Solidarity 645, 7 September 2022. Articles:

Spread the strikes!

Strikes and strike ballots: what's coming up in September and beyond

Inflation and how to counter it

Why we back Ukraine's offensive

Sanctions are not effective solidarity

The Morning Star's trouble with Gorbachev

The case for space

Towards a general strike in Sudan?

Women's Fightback: Women killed for being "witches"

Analysing Labour's poll results

Pakistan: a disaster made by capitalism

Myanmar: the need for mass strikes

Action on Covid-19

Chile: setback for the left

Far-right threat to EuroPride in Serbia

A public health new deal

Putin and the opposition

Time to lose faith in markets

North-East Ulster

Unison HE branches to strike

Big anti-abortion march in London

BT: needing a strategy from below

Scottish local government: strikes can win more!

RMT election: vote Daniel Randall!

Pages from a militant life: Richer and more predatory

Diary of an NHS worker: Tragedy, shame and anger

Kino Eye: Native Americans onscreen

TUC Congress, the strikes and the Truss regime

Preparing for Truss' attacks (John Moloney's column)

Royal Mail: now is the time to strike to win

RMT and Aslef to strike together

London Underground dispute: we must strike again!

Wage spiral to beat bills spiral

More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-645-7-september-2022

Solidarity 644, 31 August 2022. Articles:

Unite, accelerate, spread the strikes!

The threat from Truss and Sunak

"Enough is Enough": now build democratic organisation on the ground

Why do unions back the Morning Star?

Haunted by Andrey Vyshinsky’s ghost

Women's Fightback: Feminist revolt in China

Price curbs no substitute for wage rises

Letter: Grey area or no difference?

Free Our Unions steps up

Expropriate the energy industry!

Exploitation rises in Myanmar

The Trump Show season two

Action on Covid-19

This drought was avoidable

Gay rights in Singapore: one step forward, two steps back

Organising for worker power

The British Marxists, Ireland and Ulster

The other £100 billion

Scottish council workers force improvements

UCU’s new ballot starts 7 September

Unison to strike in some universities

Diary of a trackworker: But it's not in the KPIs

NHS: create strike committees

Kino Eye: Wolfgang Petersen, 1941-2022

Preparing for 26 September (John Moloney's column)

Barristers strike indefinitely from 5 September

BT workers strike 30-31 August

Postal workers upbeat after first strike

Where next in the national rail dispute?

Ukraine fights to drive back Putin

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-644-31-august-2022

Solidarity 643, 17 August 2022, 24 pages. Articles include:

The threat of new anti-strike laws

Make clear demands!

Unite, accelerate and spread the strikes

Orbán: best just to say nothing?

Starmer, Biden and the picket line

Don’t ban Russians from tourist visas

Women's Fightback: Using hate to become a TikTok star

Focus on energy efficiency

Action on Covid-19

Monkeypox: a history of neglect

Kids' storytime fends off far-right attack

Strikes can change the mood at Labour conference

Trans healthcare: expansion or alibi for cuts?

Bangladesh tea-producing workers strike

Against Putin, back Ukraine

Self-determination for the people of Taiwan!

Support Sri Lanka protesters against repression

Linking social and democratic struggles in Israel - interview with Uri Weltmann

Knowledge from the workplaces

Diary of a steel worker

Partition, Irish Protestants and James Connolly

BICO and Stalino-Unionism

“Enough is Enough” and workers’ struggles

Letter: Schematism and the CPB

Letter: Not in a single jump

Connolly on the dynamic and durable

Lousy night in Georgia

UCU to ballot in the new term

Goldsmiths UCU settles but the fight continues

Postal workers set to strike: "The shop floor is buzzing"

Local government £1,925 flat “pay rise” is a real-wage cut

Diary of a construction worker: The dreams are different

NHS workers vote over next months

Kino Eye: Tory slime-drama at its best

Part of a wider movement (John Moloney's column)

Transport workers discuss co-ordination

Connolly, unions and politics

Beat the winter catastrophe

Why we defend Salman Rushdie

More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-643-17-august-2022

Audio of the pamphlet: https://workersliberty.org/sak-pamphlet

Shapurji Saklatvala, revolutionary socialist, Indian nationalist and Labour's first BAME MP, was elected in 1922. Representing radical local and international workers' and anti-colonial struggles, he suffered ostracism, surveillance, imprisonment and exile from India to fight against capitalism, racism and imperialism: for working-class self-liberation.

Activists from socialist organisation Sotsianiy Rukh in Ukraine and from the anti-war movement in Russia spoke at our Ideas for Freedom event this year, at a session on workers' solidarity with Ukraine. Comrades from Workers' Liberty who were part of an international labour movement and left solidarity delegation to Ukraine also reported back on their experience.

Audio version of the pamphlet. More here: https://workersliberty.org/laird-occupation

In 1984 workers at the Cammell Laird shipyard in Birkenhead occupied their workplace in defence of jobs. The occupation and the strike which preceded it lasted just over three months, and then on 3 October the occupiers were arrested.

37 of them were found guilty of contempt of court and jailed. There is a campaign to lift the convictions.

Workers’ Liberty has published this pamphlet so that we can remember those who took risks to fight to save not just their jobs but the jobs of future generations.