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The Civil War in France; Marx, 1871 — Reference points #10 Audiobook of “The Civil War in France” by Karl Marx, on the Paris Commune and the lead up to it, delivered as speeches by Marx in 1870-71. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1871/civil-war-france/ which also links to a timeline, glossary, and other references and background. Article on it to be published in Solidarity 774: https://workersliberty.org/solidarity Chapters/timestamps: 00:00 Publication info 02:13 Engels’ 1891 intro The First Address, July 23, 1870 21:23 The Beginning of the Franco-Prussian War — Chapter 1 The Second Address: September 9, 1870 33:06 Prussian Occupation of France — Chapter 2 The Third Address: May, 1871 52:06 France Capitulates & the Government of Thiers — Chapter 3 01:18:39 Paris Workers’ Revolution & Thiers’ Reactionary Massacres — Chapter 4 01:39:05 The Paris Commune — Chapter 5 02:19:20 The Fall of Paris — Chapter 6 02:51:56 Engels 1891 Postscript #10 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Audiobook recording with thanks to “Adrestia's Revolt” and “Dakki Reads”. Music public domain. Photo of a barricade in the Paris Commune, March 18, 1871

Solidarity 773, 26 August 2026. Articles: Reform is on the back foot but not beaten Trump lashes out: oppose sanctions on Iran Left unites against far-right attack on socialist stall Resisting Reform in Wakefield Andy Burnham and council housing Israeli right plans to bisect West Bank Eulogising Castro… and re-writing Cuban history Crackdown sharpens in Russia Support Ukraine; oppose targeting civilians Trump scrabbles to avoid mid-terms setback Afghan women suffer from both Taliban and Trump More money for prisons is no answer Free Lee, Chow and all HK political prisoners! Self-determination for Western Sahara Burnham is still “Labour right”. How will the left respond? How British Trotskyism began How close are the “tipping points”? Capital, chapters six and seven Apologetics ride out Making a new "philosophical movement" A wealth tax? A Zucman tax Musk and feral Trumpism Public service broadcasting and us Poor choice for Scottish Labour leader Sharon Graham re-elected in Unite Rebuilding union strength in local government Raising £15,000 by November All down to service control Arday: from questions to vilification Béla Lugosi, 1882-1956, trade union organiser Students get ready for the term Rayner agrees to meet MHCLG PCS RNLI strikers increase pressure on bosses Iran: against war, against sanctions Stop Rosebank and Jackdaw The "Right Side of History"? Strike for heatwave protection Fight this bid to ban union trans-inclusivity! Unite and the "catalogue of deficiencies" More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-773-26-august-2026

Ninth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: VIII: Primitive Accumulation. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/Timestamps: Part VIII: Primitive Accumulation 00:00 Chapter 26: The Secret of Primitive Accumulation 07:50 Chapter 27: Expropriation of the Agricultural Population from the Land 33:35 Chapter 28: Bloody Legislation against the Expropriated, from the End of the 15th Century. Forcing down of Wages by Acts of Parliament 49:35 Chapter 29: Genesis of the Capitalist Farmer 52:40 Chapter 30: Reaction of the Agricultural Revolution on Industry. Creation of the Home-Market for Industrial Capital 01:00:25 Chapter 31: Genesis of the Industrial Capitalist 01:23:10 Chapter 32: Historical Tendency of Capitalist Accumulation 01:29:45 Chapter 33: The Modern Theory of Colonisation Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Ninth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain

Eighth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Contents/Timestamps (see below for tables): Part VII: The Accumulation of Capital 00:00 Intro to Part VII 03:18 Chapter 23: Simple Reproduction 27:37 Chapter 24: Conversion of Surplus-Value into Capital Section 1: Capitalist Production on a Progressively Increasing Scale. Transition of the Laws of Property that Characterise Production of Commodities into Laws of Capitalist Appropriation Section 2: Erroneous Conception, by Political Economy, of Reproduction on a Progressively Increasing Scale Section 3: Separation of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue. The Abstinence Theory Section 4: Circumstances that, Independently of the Proportional Division of Surplus-Value into Capital and Revenue, Determine the Amount of Accumulation. Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power. Productivity of Labour. Growing Difference in Amount Between Capital Employed and Capital Consumed. Magnitude of Capital Advanced Section 5: The So-Called Labour Fund 01:29:55 Chapter 25: The General Law of Capitalist Accumulation Section 1: The Increased Demand for labour power that Accompanies Accumulation, the Composition of Capital Remaining the same Section 2: Relative Diminution of the Variable Part of Capital Simultaneously with the Progress of Accumulation and of the Concentration that Accompanies it Section 3: Progressive Production of a Relative surplus population or Industrial Reserve Army Section 4: Different Forms of the Relative surplus population. The General Law of Capitalistic Accumulation Section 5: Illustrations of the General Law of Capitalist Accumulation The mentioned table of the distribution of certain incomes in 1864-5 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5 or summarised below: 1864 Total £95.8m | 308.4k people Of those £57.0m | 23.3k Of those £36.4m | 3.6k Of those £22.8m | 832 Of those £8.7m | 91 1865 Total £105.4m | 332.4k people Of those £64.6m | 24.3k Of those £42.5m | 4.0k Of those £27.6m | 973 Of those £11.1m | 107 The tables on Ireland at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch25.htm#S5f the second summarised (table B/C): CHANGE IN AREA UNDER CROPS/GRASS IN IRELAND CEREAL CROPS 1861 ↓ 16k 1862 ↓ 73k 1863 ↓ 145k 1864 ↓ 122k 1865 ↓ 72k TOTAL ↓ 428k GREEN CROPS 1861 ↓ 37k 1862 ↓ 75k 1863 ↓ 19k 1864 ↓ 2.3k 1865 ↑ 25k TOTAL ↓ 108k GRASS & CLOVER 1861 ↓ 48k 1862 ↑ 6.6k 1863 ↑ 7.7k 1864 ↑ 47k 1865 ↑ 69k TOTAL ↑ 83k FLAX 1861 ↑ 19k 1862 ↑ 2.1k 1863 ↑ 64k 1864 ↑ 88k 1865 ↓ 50k TOTAL ↑ 123k TOTAL CULTIVATED LAND 1861 ↓ 81k 1862 ↓ 139k 1863 ↓ 92k 1864 ↑ 10k 1865 ↓ 28k TOTAL ↓ 330k ↓ decrease ↑ increase k = thousand acres Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Eighth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain

Seventh part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part V: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value and Part VI: Wages. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part V: Production of Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value 00:00 Chapter 16: Absolute and Relative Surplus-Value 20:53 Chapter 17: Changes of Magnitude in the Price of Labour-Power and in Surplus-Value Section 1: Length of the Working day and Intensity of Labour Constant. Productiveness of Labour Variable Section 2: Working day Constant. Productiveness of Labour Constant. Intensity of Labour Variable Section 3: Productiveness and Intensity of Labour Constant. Length of the Working day Variable Section 4: Simultaneous Variations in the Duration, Productiveness, and Intensity of Labour 45:08 Chapter 18: Various Formula for the Rate of Surplus-Value Part VI: Wages 51:38 Chapter 19: The Transformation of the Value (and Respective Price) of Labour-Power into Wages 01:06:04 Chapter 20: Time-Wages 01:18:40 Chapter 21: Piece Wages 01:31:17 Chapter 22: National Differences of Wages Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Seventh part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain

Sixth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value — chapter 15 (i.e. the rest of part IV). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Figures mentioned can be found within the following sections: §5 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S5 Summarised below, the UK-wide result of mechanical improvements in the cotton industry due to the USA civil war. 1857 | 1861 | 1868 Factories: 2,210 | 2,887 | 2,549 Power looms: 298,847 | 399,992 | 379,329 Spindles: 28.01m | 30.39m | 32.00m Employed: 379,213 | 451,569 | 401,064 §7 https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S7 Summarised, grain etc. UK imports/exports: Years: 1831–35 | 1836–40 | 1841–45 | 1846–50 | 1851–55 | 1856–60 | 1861–65 | 1866 Import: 1.10mn | 2.39mn | 2.84mn | 8.78mn | 8.35mn | 10.91mn | 15.01mn | 16.46mn Export: 0.23mn | 0.25mn | 0.14mn | 0.16mn | 0.31mn | 0.34mn | 0.30mn | 0.22mn Excess: 0.87mn | 2.14mn | 2.70mn | 8.62mn | 8.04mn | 10.57mn | 14.71mn | 16.24mn Population: 24.62mn | 25.93mn | 27.26mn | 27.80mn | 27.57mn | 28.39mn | 29.38mn | 29.94mn Corn/head: 0.036 | 0.082 | 0.099 | 0.310 | 0.291 | 0.372 | 0.501 | 0.543 §8C https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ch15.htm#S8c Chief medical officer gave evidence of impacts of industries on health: Industry & # employed | Deaths/100,000 by age: 25–35 | 35–45 | 45–55 Agriculture (E&W), 958,265 employed | 743 | 805 | 1,145 London tailors, 22,301 men + 12,379 women | 958 | 1,262 | 2,093 London printers, 13,803 employed | 894 | 1,747 | 2,367 Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value Chapter 15: Machinery and Modern Industry Section 1 : The Development of Machinery Section 2: The Value Transferred by Machinery to the Product Section 3: The Proximate Effects of Machinery on the Workman Section 4: The Factory Section 5: The Strife Between Workman and Machine Section 6: The Theory of Compensation as Regards the Workpeople Displaced by Machinery Section 7: Repulsion and Attraction of Workpeople by the Factory System. Crises in the Cotton Trade Section 8: Revolution Effected in Manufacture, Handicrafts, and Domestic Industry by Modern Industry Section 9: The Factory Acts. Sanitary and Educational Clauses of the same. Their General Extension in England Section 10: Modern Industry and Agriculture Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Sixth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain

Fifth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value — chapters 12 to 14. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part IV: Production of Relative Surplus-Value 00:00 Chapter 12: The Concept of Relative Surplus-Value 19:11 Chapter 13: Co-operation 45:04 Chapter 14: Division of Labour and Manufacture Section 1: Two-Fold Origin of Manufacture Section 2: The Detail Labourer and his Implements Section 3: The Two Fundamental Forms of Manufacture: Heterogeneous Manufacture, Serial Manufacture Section 4: Division of Labour in Manufacture, and Division of Labour in Society Section 5: The Capitalistic Character of Manufacture Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Fifth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (Andrew S. Rightenburg) public domain

Fourth part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: the rest of Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value — chapters 8 to 11. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value 00:00 Chapter 8: Constant Capital and Variable Capital Chapter 9: The Rate of Surplus-Value 35:31 Section 1: The Degree of Exploitation of Labour-Power 01:01:04 Section 2: The Representation of the Components of the Value of the Product by Corresponding Proportional Parts of the Product Itself 01:10:06 Section 3: Senior’s “Last Hour” 01:27:59 Section 4: Surplus-Produce Chapter 10: The Working Day 01:30:23 Section 1: The Limits of the Working Day 01:43:38 Section 2: The Greed for Surplus-Labour. Manufacturer and Boyard 02:09:23 Section 3: Branches of English Industry Without Legal Limits to Exploitation 02:49:58 Section 4: Day and Night Work. The Relay System 03:15:48 Section 5: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Compulsory Laws for the Extension of the Working Day from the Middle of the 14th to the End of the 17th Century 03:59:51 Section 6: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Compulsory Limitation by Law of the Working-Time. English Factory Acts, 1833 to 1864 05:00:48 Section 7: The Struggle for a Normal Working Day. Reaction of the English Factory Acts on Other Countries 05:17:53 Chapter 11: Rate and Mass of Surplus-Value Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Fourth part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain

Third part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: chapter 6 from part II and chapter 7 from part III. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Article on it, particularly chapters six and seven as in this audio https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven . If you are only going to listen to one Capital audio for now while you follow the reference points reading list, listen to this one. Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Contents/timestamps: 00:00 Chapter 6: The Buying and Selling of Labour-Power (from Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital) Part III: The Production of Absolute Surplus-Value Chapter VII: The Labour-Process and the Process of Producing Surplus-Value 30:22 Section 1: The Labour-Process or the Production of use-values 01:02:53 Section 2: The Production of Surplus-Value Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Third part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain. Image Paris 1968 poster.

Second part of the audiobook of Capital Volume 1 by Karl Marx. This section: chapters 4 and 5 from Part II. Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Article on it (particularly chapters six and seven, released as a later audio upload) https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven Contents/timestamps: Part II: The Transformation of Money into Capital 00:00 Chapter 4: The General Formula for Capital 36:42 Chapter 5: Contradictions in the General Formula of Capital Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement Second part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain. Image Paris 1968 poster.

First part of the audiobook of "Capital: a critical analysis of capitalist production, Volume 1 (The Process of Production of Capital)" by Karl Marx, published in 1867. This section: editor's and authors prefaces plus Part I: Commodities and Money (Chapters 1-3). Read online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1867-c1/ (not necessarily the same translation, and not all prefaces etc. included). Study notes at https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2021-09-03/marxs-capital-volume-1-12-week-course Article on it (particularly chapters six and seven, released as a later audio upload) https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-08-18/capital-chapters-six-and-seven Chapters and timestamps: 00:00 Editor's preface to the first English edition; Engels 1886 10:55 Preface to the first German edition; Marx 1867 22:22 Afterward to the second edition; Marx, 1873 Part 1: Commodities and Money Chapter 1: Commodities 44:27 Section 1: The Two Factors of a Commodity: Use-Value and Value (The Substance of Value and the Magnitude of Value) 01:04:03 Section 2: The Two-fold Character of the Labour Embodied in Commodities 01:22:44 Section 3: The Form of Value or Exchange-Value. • Introduction • A: Elementary or Accidental Form of Value 02:07:33 • B: Total or Expanded Form of Value 02:15:06 • C: The General Form of Value • D: The Money Form 02:31:48 Section 4: The Fetishism of Commodities and the Secret Thereof 03:14:25 Chapter 2: Exchange Chapter 3: Money, Or the Circulation of Commodities 03:52:47 Section 1: The Measure of Values Section 2: The Medium of Circulation 04:22:17 • A: The Metamorphosis of Commodities 04:55:04 • B: The Currency of Money 05:31:10 • C: Coin and symbols of value 05:50:53 Section 3: Money • Introduction • A: Hoarding 06:05:35 • B: Means of Payment 06:27:49 • C: Universal Money Otto Rühle's abridged version at https://workersliberty.org/capital-abridgement First part of #9 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Music and audiobook (librivox) public domain. Image Paris 1968 poster.

Solidarity 772, 12 August 2026. Contents: Mass council-house building now Councils defy EHRC Code of Practice Labour conference 2026 Ebola, democracy, and mining profits Arriva North buses strike over heat Burnham challenged to lift PA ban Iran: stop the war. Arrogant Trump messes up Good riddance Steve Reed. Look to Finland "Lock them up" is reactionary demagogy Left must say more about how to unify Ireland Support the binational left in Israel Clacton, Farage and “buon senso” Your Party: from inactivity to crisis East London health workers fight cuts Trump's threats to November vote The lies of capitalist fish-farming When will the 50% threshold go? How to cool your workplace Halfway to solidarity with sex workers New network launched against uni cuts A new network against university cuts Police clampdown in Bristol Schools in Belgium: how strikes change people How to win strikes, even some difficult ones Our reference points: Wages, Price, and Profit In Retrospect: "Proximity denial" - ethnic minorities in the far right Farage's outrider on the further right Wakefield's Reform council, flags, and landlords Tax the rich, says China The first 24 days of Andy Burnham Scottish Labour: a critical vote for Monica Lennon A European convoy to keep Ukraine from disappearing For Ukraine, against Russian imperialism. Against Ukraine’s attacks on civilian infrastructure Diary of a Tubeworker: Planning without enough workers Kino Eye: Billy Liar re-released PCS NEC aims to change the union Glasgow Caledonian on strike RNLI workers strike for increased redundancy payments Theatre assistants strike in Leeds Anas Sarwar: so long, suckers! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-772-12-august-2026

Audiobook of "Wages, Price, and Profit" (also known as "Value, Price and Profit") by Karl Marx, published 1865. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/value-price-profit.pdf Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-07-21/our-reference-points-wages-price-and-profit?language_content_entity=en Chapters and rough timestamps: 00:00 Preliminary 01:29 I. Production and Wages 06:56 II. Production, Wages, Profits 29:16 III. Wages and Currency 39:55 IV. Supply and Demand 44:44 V. Wages and Prices 50:50 VI. Value and Labour 01:11:28 VII. Labour Power 01:17:54 VIII. Production of Surplus Value 01:23:28 IX. Value of Labour 01:27:05 X. Profit is Made by Selling a Commodity at Its Value 01:29:50 XI. The Different Parts into which Surplus Value is Decomposed 01:37:30 XII. General Relation of Profits, Wages, and Prices 01:42:33 XIII. Main Cases of Attempts at Raising Wages or Resisting their Fall 01:57:55 XIV. The Struggle Between Capital and Labour and its Results #8 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Audiobook recording with thanks to: “Radical Reads”. Music public domain. Photo of Marx in London, 1861.

Solidarity 771, 15 July 2026. Articles include most of the following: PCS "lock-out" ends. For now RMT: shaping renationalised rail? Debate on the Unite general secretary election: another view Third volume of Estonian epic What kind of communism is Trump afraid of? A new phase in Iran and the Middle East Burnham: squeeze him, not cajole! More than “tax the rich” Can Ukraine defeat Russia? Workers’ voice missing on Irish unity Global and Catholic dimensions to anti-migrant far right Resisting moves to “bury” any Palestinian state Iran: Stop the war! Judicial review sought of EHRC code Climate change: adapt, and brake! Trump steps up mass deportations Palestinian families displaced in East Jerusalem A tale of two anniversaries Housing: will Andy Burnham walk the walk? SWP regroups at its “Marxism” festival Net zero not to blame on jobs Farage's "sand in your eyes" resignation Benefits: fix the system, tax the rich! Lambeth Council to stop helping immigration enforcement Turkey clamps down as Israel manoeuvres Sperm, health, and manliness Iranian monarchists attack freedom protest China: the crisis behind the hukou changes Marx on the “18th Brumaire” The Spanish revolution of 1936 Leon Trotsky on Spain What Farage wants to turn back the clock to A fight for accountability and resources Scrap the Palestine Action ban! Sudan: support the Emergency Response Rooms Letter: government by enlightened littérateurs? NHS Trusts are still cutting jobs Seeing Israel as representing male supremacy? Cover match-fixing Is “that black stuff” really safe? Students to meet 31 July-1 August Farmers, land, and developers on film PCS steps up where-to-work dispute Consultants ballot on pay and more Scottish Labour review: missing the big questions Le Pen will stand for president despite being convicted More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-771-15-july-2026

Women's Fightback 37, Summer 2026. For centuries medicine had viewed women’s bodies as inferior, unstable, weak and dangerous. This legacy still haunts us. As Women’s Fightback 37, a Health Special went to press, a damning three-year long review of the biggest childbirth scandal in NHS history concludes revealing brutal treatment of those receiving maternity care. Our editorial charts the history of how women’s health has been understood, the role the National Health Service has played in improving women’s health and the challenges we face today through inequality, privatisation and distrust in health systems. We have reports of campaigns of workers improving trans healthcare fighting HIV stigma, saving care services and to support sex worker decriminalisation. Our country profile covers women’s struggles in Hungary, and we have class struggle feminists reports from Latvia, the US and Nigeria. Articles: Editorial: Women's Health, Inequality and the Future of the NHS Trans Segregation, a New Era of Misogyny: the EHRC Code of Practice Sheffield Trans Healthcare Practice Learning Initiative Fight the EHRC Not Reps! Strike Saves Central Hill Dementia Centre Unionising Against HIV Stigma Challenge to Women's Rights in Latvia Against the Cult of Personality: César Chávez and the UFW Who Cares? UK Fostering System in Crisis Everlasting Bread exposes Nigerian Authorities' Lack of Care for Public Health The Many Lives of Tracey Emin 'Inside the Manosphere' barely scratches the surface Featured Poet: Elly Gault Unions Move to Support Sex Work Decriminalisation Our Family History: a Review of Two Books Obituary: Marjane Satrapi (1969-2026) When Workers Occupied Their Hospital Women’s Struggles in Hungary Far right beaten back in Brighton More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-37-summer-2026 Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist magazine by Workers' Liberty. We stand for trans-inclusive, sex-positive, class struggle feminism. We organise in our workplaces and trade unions, and in the student movement and Labour Party for socialist feminist politics. Get your copy now!

Audiobook of "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte" by Karl Marx, published 1852. Read it online https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1852/18th-brumaire/ Article on it: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2026-07-14/marx-18th-brumaire On December 2 1851, followers of President Louis Bonaparte (Napoleon's nephew) broke up the Legislative Assembly and established a dictatorship. A year later, Louis Bonaparte proclaimed himself Emperor Napoleon III. Marx wrote The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Napoleon between December 1851 and March 1852. The "Eighteenth Brumaire" refers to November 9, 1799 in the French Revolutionary Calendar — the day the first Napoleon Bonaparte had made himself dictator by a coup d'etat. Chapters and timestamps: 00:00 Preface: Marx 1869 04:24 Preface: Engels 1885 09:38 Chapter I (Feb. 1848 to Dec. 1851) 39:03 Chapter II (Downfall of the Republicans) 01:15:05 Chapter III (Defeat of Petty-bourgeois democracy) 01:58:56 Chapter IV (Rise of Louis Bonaparte) 02:28:27 Chapter V (National Assembly vs. Bonaparte) 03:21:34 Chapter VI (Victory of Bonaparte) 04:19:09 Chapter VII (Summary) #7 of Marxist points of reference reading list: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-01-28/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list at https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Audiobook recording with thanks to: “Socialism4All” (prefaces); Marxist Internet Archive (chapters 1-5); Dakki Reads (chapters 6-7). Music public domain. Depiction of Napoleon and conspirators: https://bit.ly/4gygAFe

Solidarity 770, 1 July 2026. Articles include most of the following: A new low in TSSA Trains dispute: a pause will benefit the bosses The International Socialists in the USA: an interview with Andrew Stone Higgins Hope for change from the top of Labour? No, push for change from the base Timeline of ISC/IS and forerunners The far right is still a huge danger Israel out of Lebanon! Back Iran's working class Win protection for heatwaves to come Ten years of "actually existing Brexit" Bus drivers refuse overheating Go beyond short-term fixes! Make union leaders do more! Schools should be safe, pleasant places The riots and the UDA bosses GCU strikes against job cuts The SWP and its "crisis of leadership" Au revoir Les Enfants Resident doctors end dispute Drop the Minnesota charges! The vicissitudes of the heterodox Who owns land? Open the books Pushing for "our work, our way" Code is riddled with ambiguities Has Net Zero been the cause of job losses in offshore oil and gas? New far-right president in Colombia met with protests Gaza: the daily struggle to survive Debate on the Unite union general secretary election New binational left party launched in Israel India's women workers and the heat Isolated "content consumption" vs deep reading and discussing Labour still slumping in Scotland Unison 2026: "far from out of the woods" Resist coup in PCS! Ukraine asserts itself against Belarus SD Platform: fighting for a progressive alternative in Ukraine Electronic balloting to go ahead Political independence of the working class 40 years of questioning on mental health Teachers' wildcat strikes push back government Clashes at Prospect conference Mozgovoy, the “Ghost” Brigade, and Donbas More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-770-1-july-2026

Solidarity 769, 10 June 2026. Articles: Doctors strike 15-19 June Push back the racists! For democratic controls on the police Iran war: for peace with equal rights! Expand jobs, not cut benefits! University strikes spread Strike saves daycare centre Keeping it safe when it’s hot Letter: Who's the "behaviour", and who's the "management" Letter: Literacy and edtech Letter: A false polarisation Letter: A case against the under-16 ban Overturn and subvert the Code of Practice Print is not just another medium School support staff need new union deal Well short of what’s needed The Communist Manifesto of 1848 Rosa Luxemburg on renewing Marxism To open up Labour, win Makerfield Use legal rights against workplace heat! Ebola, capitalism, and Trump’s aid cuts Young men in USA turn religious What we saw in Lviv and Kyiv The TUC’s ERA toolkit: check the small print No land without an owner? The CPB’s rotten curate’s egg Laying waste to southern Lebanon DUP blocks Northern Ireland’s “ERA” Socialist Worker’s mess on Makerfield Things likely to get worse Neither Washington nor Tehran, but workers’ liberty Why I rejected the University of Bath pay offer How the General Strike was lost What we can learn from SNP scandal Unruly schools on film Letter: Learn from Chayanov Milei attacks the working class and its unions Eco-socialism must have more politics, not less! Antimilitarism which forgets those who have been attacked is no antimilitarism In retrospect: Marx, Thatcher, and Sunday shopping Another successful strike. Now escalate! Free Yaser Ahmadinejad! Aerospace workers strike for pay Seize the loot of the rich! Conference and Andrea Egan’s first 139 days Green councils, reversing cuts, and the Lib-Dems More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-769-10-june-2026

Audio recording of a draft/transcript of "The March Address" AKA “Address of the Central Committee to the Communist League”, a speech given and circulated by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels in March 1850, as reproduced here https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/communist-league/1850-ad1.htm Article on this https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-06-21/political-independence-working-class #6 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list here https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Audiobook recording from audio by “Socialism4All”, with thanks; music public domain; image a depiction of young Marx (over a decade prior). Subscribe to our podcast “Solidarity & more” by “Workers' Liberty” wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio

Audiobook of "The Manifesto of the Communist Party" by Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, published 1848. Read online at https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/communist-manifesto/ (audio has prefaces as per https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61 ) Study notes: https://workersliberty.org/cm Article on it: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-06-09/communist-manifesto-1848 Contents and rough timestamps: 00:00 Preamble 01:40 Section 1: Bourgeois and Proletarians 39:25 Section 2: Proletarians and Communists 1:06:15 Section 3: Socialist and Communist Literature 1:31:48 Section 4: Position of the Communists in Relation to the Various Existing Opposition Parties #5 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list here https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Audiobook public domain from librivox; music public domain; image is cover from the original edition. Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio

Audio of "Wage Labour and Capital", by Karl Marx, first delivered as a speech in 1847, but edited and published in 1891. The 1891 version, reproduced here, is better. Read this online at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/wage-labour/ or as a PDF https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/download/pdf/wage-labour-capital.pdf See the article on it here: https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-05-26/internationalism-capital-social-relation And discussion points: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2017-07-26/discussion-points-educationals-wage-labour-and-capital Chapter contents and rough timestamps: 00:00 Introduction 22:17 Chapter 1 — Preliminary 26:27 Chapter 2 — What are wages? 36:25 Chapter 3 — By what is the price of a commodity determined? 47:27 Chapter 4 — By what are wages determined? 50:57 Chapter 5 — The nature and growth of capital 57:54 Chapter 6 — Relation of wage-labour to capital 1:09:00 Chapter 7 — The general law that determines the rise and fall of wages and profit 1:15:32 Chapter 8 — The interests of capital and wage-labour are diametrically opposed 1:24:27 Chapter 9 — Effect of capitalist competition on the capitalist class, middle class and working class #4 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list here https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Audiobook (and image) public domain from librivox; music public domain. Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio

Audio recording of “On the Question of Free Trade”, from the draft/transcript of a speech by Karl Marx in 1848, with an introduction by Frederick Engels from 1888. Read online at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1848/free-trade/index.htm See the article on it https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-05-26/internationalism-capital-social-relation Discussion points see week 1 at https://bit.ly/m-imp Approximate time stamps: 00:00 Intro by Engels 51:50 Speech by Marx #3 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list here https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Audiobook recorded by Workers’ Liberty; music public domain. Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio

Audio of "The Poverty of Philosophy" by Karl Marx, published in 1847. Read online at: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1847/poverty-philosophy/ (including pdf and docx). Recording based on https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Poverty_of_Philosophy See the article on it here https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-05-05/our-reference-points-1-debunking-religion-class-struggle And study notes: https://www.workersliberty.org/story/2019-04-11/poverty-philosophy-notes-study-sessions Contents and (approximate) timestamps: 00:00 Translator's foreword; Preface by Engels from 1884; Author's Preface Chapter 1 — A Scientific Discovery: 43:05 Ch. 1 Section 1 — Opposition of Utility Value to Exchange Value 1:09:04 Ch. 1 Section 2 — Constituted or Synthetic Value 2:03:10 Ch. 1 Section 3 — Application of the Law of the Proportion of Value: (a) Money, (b) Surplus Labour Chapter 2 — The Metaphysics of Political Economy: 2:54:39 Ch. 2 Section 1 — The Method 3:42:35 Ch. 2 Section 2 — The Division of Labor and Machinery 4:19:37 Ch. 2 Section 3 — Competition and Monopoly 4:37:58 Ch. 2 Section 4 — Property and Rent 5:02:48 Ch. 2 Section 5 — Strikes and the Combination of Workmen Appendices: 5:20:17 Appendix 1 — Proudhon Judged by Marx 5:39:14 Appendix 2 — John Gray and his Theory of Labor Notes 5:47:50 Appendix 3 — Free Trade #2 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list Playlist of recordings from that list here https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Audiobook public domain from librivox; music public domain. Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio Image: Proudhon depicted addressing the French assembly

Audio of "Theses on Feuerbach" by Karl Marx, written around 1845 (published later, with slight edits by Engels.) Read online: https://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1845/theses/theses.htm See the article on it here https://workersliberty.org/story/2026-05-05/our-reference-points-1-debunking-religion-class-struggle And study notes: https://www.workersliberty.org/study-courses#himat #1 from Marxist points of reference: a reading list https://workersliberty.org/marxist-points-reference-reading-list . Audio playlist https://soundcloud.com/workers-liberty/sets/marxist-points-of-reference-a Speech audio public domain from librivox audiobooks; music public domain. Image: stamp picturing Feuerbach Subscribe to the podcast "Solidarity & more" by "Workers' Liberty" wherever you listen to podcasts. More info: https://workersliberty.org/audio

Solidarity 768, 27 May 2026. Articles: Prepare for Heat Strike! One-euro meals for all students PCS conference sets a new course Dementia care workers can win Two films from the past, for today How can so many be racists? Chernobyl: the botched emergency response Musicians against the far right Only replacing profit will do it To curb social media, boost real life Why we focus as we do Why did you miss these? Internationalism. Capital as a social relation Debate on Ukraine, Israel-Palestine, China Unruly schools, part four The conceit of the “safe seat” Organise the left for reversing Brexit Putin blunders on “Fiscal rules” row is a sidetrack The RCP: what about the unions? Abolish the Duchy of Lancaster! Make unions go beyond “expressing concern” Standing Together helps Palestinian defence Workers’ Liberty at LO fete Ireland: who will win from decline of FF and FG? Trump and Iran: the workers and poor pay Back Iran's workers and feminist activists, not CODIR The Putin-Galloway international? How the labour movement can change agriculture 16 May: TUFF puts down a marker Open up Labour democracy More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-768-27-may-2026

Solidarity 767, 13 May 2026. Articles: Make unions fight the far right! US-Israel bomb, Iran’s clerics clamp down A barrel full of rotten apples Defend the right to protest Take the antisemitic threat seriously Workers come out against Trump Answering Reform on immigration Israel-Palestine: for two states and equal rights! Defence on “Jerusalem Day” The Morning Star, the Greens... and Lib-Dems The “unfinished revolution”: land and the Crown Disaffiliation leads away from, not towards, new politics An alternative to multi-systems theories A war between thieves Anas Sarwar should resign, too A working-class "Covid inquiry" Labour after Starmer: reopen Labour democracy! When “left” and far-right join to delete workers and women Our reference points 1: From debunking religion to class struggle Unruly schools, part 3 Can we get rid of crap jobs? On the doorstep with Lambeth Greens “Your Party” slumps on 7 May Letter: The forms of anti-Jewish hate Letter: Focus on text is misplaced Letter: social media and regulation Letter: "One solution, revolution?" Ireland: the new communalism and racism Oddball left group tries to disrupt May Day PCS: election victory sets scene Don’t let commissioners block bins deal Staff-student unity emerging Don’t fall ill on the Tube Victory at mining museum Feynman and the Challenger disaster Lambeth dementia care workers strike MHCLG in action from 1 May Students at Goldsmiths lead the way Chernobyl: a bureaucratic disaster More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-767-13-may-2026?

Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist magazine by Workers' Liberty. We stand for trans-inclusive, sex-positive, class struggle feminism. We organise in our workplaces and trade unions, and in the student movement and Labour Party for socialist feminist politics. Get your copy now! As we have entered 2026, we have seen crises on multiple fronts intensify across the globe. In the US, there have been eight ICE-related deaths since 1 January, Trump abducted Venezuela's leader, and continued his nationalistic programme to carve the world into rival blocs. The Epstein files have caused shockwaves across the world, but brought little justice to victims. In the UK, Reform and the far right remain on the march, and Labour hold no answers to oppose them. In this issue, we delve into these crises and stake our claim that the the workers' movement holds the power for solutions. We look at the Epstein files and the institutional betrayal which allowed wealthy men the world over to carry out, and cover up, heinous abuses. We continue to explore women's role in the far right and the institutional violence of immigration controls. We look to Iran and the fight for women's freedom renewed in recent struggles against the regime. We look at the harms caused by anti-trans rhetoric and last year's Supreme Court decision. Articles: Editorial: The world in crisis Not in the Epstein files: an institutional betryal Support Iranian women's fight for freedom ICE and its structural violence: a gendered analysis On anti-trans rhetoric: whose safety matters? Free Google ads for anti-abortion groups "Mrs Barbour's army": the 1915 Glasgow women's rent strike AI and the erasure of consent: Laura Bates' essential new book The Supreme Court ruling: one year on LOUD WOMEN: in conversation with Cassie Fox Power and control in women's boxing From red-pilled to pink-pilled Radical intimacy: the personal is political Uniting our struggles: bodily autonomy, disability and feminism Women in Mexico 1600s-2025 Coercion: lessons from the USA Unison: Andrea Egan election win — the fight starts now More online: https://workersliberty.org/wf

Solidarity 766, 22 April 2026. Articles: LUL raises the stakes: strike next week, then escalate! St Cuthbert's strikes to save jobs! End the war! No to US-Israeli bombing! Stop Reform on 7 May No work, no school, no shopping Rally the left against Starmer The Greens in Lambeth The sands shift on Brexit A union mobilisation for 16 May Workers and the fuel protests Violence "insane and cannot continue" Orban: a strangely delayed reaction Land ownership and reform in Scotland Will new guidance allow inclusive spaces A drift to "BDS" as the universal answer A drastic tipping point may be close Reform's two strands of misogyny The Pope is not the anti-Trump A draft charter for Labour democracy The roots of Syria's civil war, 2012-2024 The modes of capitalism A crisis of unruly schools part two Debate: How to limit social media harm Before Ukraine there was Finland Health conference ducks pay fight TUC region backs police boost Lessons from a new account of French Trotskyism Samuel Beckett: 120 years and still waiting Letter: Why bother with the Greens? Union needs to explain to its members 26 April 1986: Chernobyl MHCLG now needs solid action Save this daycare centre! NEU needs clear demands NCMM: workers still optimistic Birmingham Bins update More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-766-22-april-2026

Solidarity 765, 15 April 2026. Articles: Cleaners win sick pay Longer work day: move to action! Oppose US-Israeli bombing • Israel out of Lebanon • For a secular republic and workers’ power in Iran Iran-Israel-USA: This is not our war! Talking with the far right in Sheffield Why Netanyahu wants more war The local vote mystery End the forever war! Where just 421 people own 40% of rural land Party declares not "yours" for organised socialists A radical-feminist take on motherhood The left after the fall of Orban Organise a union fightback Making antisemitism virtuous Antisemitism picture is more complex Reform UK is a lie-factory A crisis of unruly schools? Don’t demonise working-class youth How cuts are structured into Stormont Something, but too little, too late Why is a leading union faction promoting Galloway's party? “Post-literacy”: the beam in our own eyes Q&A: The Greens, Labour, and us Pushback at NEU conference The NEU Left after conference Hope after eight months April is National Poetry Month “If you break your arm, come into work” Challenges in where-to-work dispute Universities strike over pay Doctors still demand restoration Give the unpaid carers a break! May Day, Trump, and Avignon PA ban arrests now total 3,300 More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-765-15-april-2026

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When first uploaded, pages 17-21 of this week's paper were missing, and were accidentally replaced by a similar set of pages from the previous paper. We have now rectified that. Sorry. Solidarity 764, 1 April 2026. Articles: End the bombing! Israel out of Lebanon! Workers against war Prepare for price rises and crisis Make unions take lead against far right! Prisoners inside Iran at risk Don’t put an “abolish Israel” dress-up on anti-racism Workers’ united fronts? Or just fronts? Fascists set up fight clubs The Morning Star has learned something Antisemitic attacks have doubled Anti-war protesters defy the police Job losses are not down to “net zero” The fourth worst among 38 OECD countries Ugly farce at spring conference Stop censorship in school libraries The third force: workers, women, and more Commemoration for Yanar Mohammed In memory of Yanar Mohammed Can we “reset” local Labour Parties? Russia's "spring offensive" falters Mr Nobody Against Putin Workers Control - The Best Possible Management We need social provision, not the market Proletariat, philosophy, manifesto New report gives the facts One battle after another Cuba: a reply to Martyn Ahmet Don’t forget the long-term background Easy victory eludes Trump We promised to be sisters to all PCS Left Unity and "Workers Party" France: after the second round Socialism and the Post-Literate Society 28 March is still the beginning After local elections, school workers strike Students mobilise against the “death spirals” Rally backs Northumbria UCU Are the bosses stringing us along? Who are these people? Movement in Birmingham bins dispute Working class culture and World War 1 Labour should not copy Danish Social Democrats (except on wealth tax) Hope in museum strike Police restart arrests on anti-ban protests Support the doctors US left pushing for strike on May Day More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-764-1-april-2026

Solidarity 763, 18 March 2026. Articles include: “100% academisation” - Johnson and Zahawi walk again in the form of Bridget Phillipson, but what is the NEU saying? End the US-Israeli bombing! For a secular republic in Iran, for workers’ power! Far-right threat still large in France Tube drivers to strike for controls over work hours Bans on protests at best double-edged Sanders denounces Iran war Building a third choice Neither bombs nor authoritarian rule! The death of Ali Khamenei Back anti-war people in Israel Unite should campaign, not cut affiliation Netanyahu hits Lebanon, West Bank, Gaza Labour Women United Co-resistance can create hope Spy scares displace the real horror We must resist this war The lessons and the erosion of “Red Vienna” Coup at first YP CEC meeting Changing terrain in council cuts fight Lords push against decriminalisation of abortion Anthropocene and Capitalocene Workers’ protests emerge in Venezuela New guidance is poor but gives space Reform’s poisonous false answers Young Labour elections re-run Active united fronts against far right A victory on the visa rules The stranger's case Make unions fight for migrant rights The forgotten General Strike when workers won Capitalism is not an "Epstein conspiracy" Organise the unorganised! Against TUC expulsion! How to wreck a Labour Party Letter: Be sharper against Trump and Israel 28 March as a step for 1 May? Letter: Still need to fight in the labour movement Living amidst constant war Obituary: Country Joe McDonald (1942 – 7 March 2026) “All The Rage” in Manchester A preview of the Greens’ conference Vote for Graham slate, but critically Noon to noon strikes should work better Kino Eye: Bertolucci's Novecento Non-striker sacked after pro-strike protest Huge cuts at Hallam New strikes at Northumbria First round of France's municipal elections More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-763-18-march-2026

Solidarity 762, 4 March 2026. Articles: Iran: Against US-Israeli bombing. For a secular republic and a workers’ government Rest In Power, Yanar Mohammed Iran: responses from the left and labour movement Netanyahu goes for “endless war” Plan together, resist together What to do after Gorton and Denton On the ground in Gorton and Denton Tactical voting for… anyone but Labour? “The Many” claims a false mandate A staging post on a bigger shift Divestment edges forward, but to where? Inclusive words, but ineffective actions Making the “others” count Private landownership comes from conquest Now an anti-fascist united front for Manchester, 18 April Letter: Racism on the rise Trump tries to hold MAGA together Silence from museum bosses Stories from the doorstep Northumbria strikes again from 2 March University cuts battles: Leicester, Sheffield, Hallam Put free education back on agenda NEU votes to organise support staff These iPads aren’t real help NEU ballots from 28 February “It is the time of monsters”: films about Gramsci Background notes on Gramsci For a real shorter work week! After setback, rebuild density! It’s not really rowdy students Hundreds out against Newham cuts Free Yaser Ahmadinejad More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-762-4-march-2026

Solidarity 761, 18 February 2026. Articles: Support the Northfields fleet strike! Back Ukraine against Putin Four years of Russia’s war Restore Labour democracy, mobilise, unite in action Ban on Palestine Action ruled unlawful Fascists attack left benefit gig Stop demolitions in Silwan! Our bodies, our choices Corbyn faction ups stakes in YP What made the 1945 government different? To win democracy, organise Vote Labour in Gorton and Denton, fight Starmer's policies One cheer for Starmer in Beijing 50% turnout threshold to stay until August or later Against the forever war! Sinn Fein’s austerity in Northern Ireland Little progress for green hydrogen Reform surges, Labour flounders in Scotland "Plans" without social housing won't work Trump steps up threats to November polls Loopholes on "fire and rehire" For a free Ukraine! “Epstein files”shows us how the rich rule Against far right, for a workers’ united front The great council house giveaway High Court mostly backs EHRC The alternatives in Cuba: a different view How Iran became a despotism Beating Reform and beating racism How the Islamists crushed the workers Turn for the worse since July Revolution in Bangladesh Strong pickets at Northumbria “Good for them!” And now coordination? A landmark documentary on housing MHCLG to re-ballot from 2 March Battles over university cuts and student loans Strike against zero pay offer Mining museum bosses still stubborn More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-761-18-february-2026

Solidarity 760, 4 February 2026. Articles: Against Starmer, for socialism! All out 28 March! For a workers' united front! Minneapolis general strike against Trump Follow Spain’s example Throw Mandelson’s project out with him Reform’s promises shown empty Kurdish forces defeated by Syria's government Trump keeps a grip on Venezuela Israel is still bombing Gaza Palestinian strike against social neglect For national rights, against nationalism Trump? “No problem”? Or fascist? Open letter to Corbyn from an Iranian leftist Trump’s spite turns sourer Councils need better funding Spring conference and a by-election Greens should steer away from antisemitism Time for “Time For Real Change” to change “Saving” the USA from immigrants? “Biscuit of socialism” has crumbled A socialist plan without taking the banks? North-West Labour votes for asylum rights For a workers’ alternative to Khamenei, not Trump’s A united Europe? 1929 and now "More revolutionary, not susceptible to bourgeois bribery" In Retrospect: Racism, Housing and Winifred Atwell Waiting for politics? Vote Ruth Cashman for CEC, transfer to GL Unite the Union: Back to... union democracy Book review. Prequel: An American Fight Against Fascism Uptick planned at Birmingham bins Leicester scales up its cuts Sheffield University gives ultimatum Northumbria university strikes from 12 February Left groups agree PCS slate Blow Up and the Sixties A poor sort of 4-day week Egan pledges help to NCMM strike Tetrosyl dispute needs workers’ control More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-760-4-february-2026

Women's Fightback 35, Autumn 2025. This summer has seen the return of far-right marches through our streets and town centres. Under the false pretence of protecting women, far-right mobs have targeted hotels housing asylum seekers and mosques. Their racist nationalism is increasingly normalised by a Labour government that stretches further to the right to accommodate the demands of Reform. In this issue, we expose where the roots of women's oppression really lie: the system of capitalism. We explore what we mean by class struggle feminism; cover the fight for bodily autonomy – from trans rights to abortion access at home, abroad and across time; the relationship between women and the far right, and how socialists, feminists and trade unionists are fighting back. We cover revolutionary art from poetry to surrealism, and discuss how the way we talk about films, wellness and health sometimes echo broader trends towards social conservatism. Articles: A hot autumn in HE? Students and workers - unite and fight No complacency on access to abortion Class struggle feminism Conscientious objection and the fight for abortion access in Italy How the EHRC is failing trans people Jean 'Binta' Breeze: close to the heart Materialists - separating the feminists from the classists The Online Safety Act Pink-pilled: reflections from summer camp Reproductive rights through class and race: Margaret Sanger and Marie Stopes Massive far right mobilisation: sound the alarm Our perspective on Stand Up to Racism The myth of the black rapist revisted Unison GS election: elect Andrea Egan, fight for union democracy! Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore: surrealism in rebellion The fight for 52 Israel out of Gaza and the West Bank! More online: https://workersliberty.org/wf Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist magazine by Workers' Liberty. We stand for trans-inclusive, sex-positive, class struggle feminism. We organise in our workplaces and trade unions, and in the student movement and Labour Party for socialist feminist politics. Get your copy now!

Workers’ Fight newspaper ran during a time of great class battles in Britain, dramatic events internationally, and intense and fluid debate within the left. It was a time which made for vivid and weighty memories. Workers' Liberty volume 3, issue #77 looks back at it. https://workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/workers

Women's Fightback 33, Winter/Spring 2025. With Trump back in office, and the far right ascendant across large partsof the world, the challenges facing socialists and feminists are starker than ever. In this issue we hear about the fight for democracy in Putin's Russia, from a military refuser in Israel building the opposition to the occupation of Palestine, and about socialists in the US trying to reorient and rebuild. We explore the 'manosphere' and the alt-right pipeline radicalising young men in the UK, the impact that pornography is having on our sexual horizons, and much more besides – with our usual mix of history, culture, and poetry. Enjoy! Articles: Trump's New World Order Gregg Wallace Building an independent socialist left Organise with us for abortion rights Israel's "fucked generation" takes on the occupation Poland's war on women Trying to make power out of hatred and destruction Dispatches from Ukraine The Manosphere Exposing the realities of pornography Un Violador en tu Camino (A rapist in your path) Trans Strike Back! All Fours The labour of care Organising barmaids and acrobats Acts of creation Hotel Lux More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/wf

Day-by-day, how the state broke down in Northern Ireland, 1969: Workers' Liberty 3/76. By Sean Matgamna. More online: https://workersliberty.org/day-day-how-state-broke-down-northern-ireland-1969-workers-liberty-376

Workers’ Liberty is a socialist organisation. Our members are active in workplaces, Uni campuses, trade unions, the Labour Party, and left politics. We think it is possible to replace capitalism with a better society — socialism. We think that the people who can do this are the working class. This pamphlet sets out what we think, what we do, and what makes us different from other political groups and NGOs. It tells you what is involved with being a member. Order, see contents, and download PDF online: https://workersliberty.org/wsfwl

This short pamphlet explains why trade unions should not be giving political and financial support to a newspaper which is not the "daily paper of the left" but the mouthpiece of the Communist Party of Britain (CPB). More online and buy: https://workersliberty.org/morningstar The Morning Star is not an effective way for unions to gain support for their disputes and campaign. And the political cost of backing the Morning Sar is immense: in effect, presenting a vision of “socialism” in which the totalitarian police state of China is held up as desirable, military coups (as in Niger) are hailed as legitimate means of achieving progressive change, and nationalist illusions of “socialism in one country” are promoted as the way forward for Britain. And it’s not even true that the paper allows genuine debate on issues where there are differences on the left.

The Easter Rising and Irish history: The two souls of Irish nationalism? An attempt at a Marxist account. An inspiration across the world? Or an eclipse of working-class socialism by narrow nationalism? Both were in the Easter Rising. Workers' Liberty vol. 3 issue 75, Solidarity 694, is a special on this topic. More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/workers-liberty-magazine/latest-issue/workers-liberty-volume-3-september-2005/easter

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

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

Women's Fightback is a socialist feminist mag by Workers' Liberty. Issue 27 includes articles on women and the cost-of-living crisis, war-time feminist activism in Ukraine, the US abortion rights battle, women workers' struggles in South Asia, feminist cities, social reproduction and trans rights, and much more... https://workersliberty.org/wf27

James Connolly in World War One — Running with the Hare and Riding with the Hounds. Workers' Liberty vol. 3 no. 71, February 2023.

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.

Aiming to replace capitalism with socialism, James Connolly’s organising and ideas evolved considerably. One idea he clung to from the turn of the century to his death in 1916 was industrial unionism, workers’ solidarity across grades and trades and sympathetic strikes. That is how he saw his work with Larkin on the Irish Transport Union: a union for an industry and the members watching the moment until they could take over running the industry. His articles on that theme have never previously been collected compactly, and many appear in this short book — here in audioformat — for the first time in full since original publication. Buy a copy and more online: https://workersliberty.org/connolly-unions Introduction by Liam McNulty and Sean Matgamna