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Solidarity 750, 27 August 2025. Articles: All out on LU and DLR! Back anti-war revolt inside Israel! How war became Israel’s new normal, and how to change that Palestine Action: lift the ban! An idea, a promise... a cult? “Hotel” panic: solidarity with refugees! Putin, Trump, and World War Two nostalgia Welcome to Europe: the far right in UK Trade unions discuss challenge from EHRC Lessons of the Thistle anti-racist protest The SWP and the Corbyn–Sultana party Sultana-Corbyn: where is the project going? How not to build a new left party: lessons from France Russia's war on Ukraine gets worse What kickback at Labour conference? Trans rights and political polarisation Debate: the Peggie-Upton case and the demonisation of trans people. Workers’ Liberty policy on trans rights Myanmar military targets trade-unionists Maoism: the Stalinism of our epoch Trump’s police clampdown spreads from LA to DC Green parties across the world Tariffs and world-market regime-change How I became a socialist: A choice every day to organise PCS demands Rayner meet with union Birmingham bins dispute must be revitalised Sharifeh Mohammadi faces death sentence in Iran Fine words butter no vegetables Background notes on Animal Farm Win for Nottingham HCSWs Animal Farm on film Sheffield megapicket draws 150 BMA calls new ballot More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-750-27-august-2025

Solidarity 749, 6 August 2025. Articles: One year of Labour in power. Where next for the left? Back the anti-war protests in Israel Why recognising Palestine matters How to fight the far-right protests Who will shape the “new party”? “Mega picket” boost for bin strikers Court review granted on Palestine Action ban Suwayda: violence and autonomy Iran’s Islamists scapegoat Afghan refugees Not so keen after all… ? Lenin in Zurich, 1916-17 and 2025 Book review: A short history of trans misogyny New codes coming without full debate Rachel’s Rules: a cautionary tale Hundreds of millions have long Covid Extreme heat is workplace violence For a NHS where we can all thrive Resident doctors broaden dispute Stalinism vs Trotskyism: not with the pen but with the bullet or bludgeon Turmoil in the Unite union Trump, Epstein, and the crimes of the powerful Against tariffs, unite workers across borders Epping, SUTR, and the police Why I joined Workers' Fight Debate: the Peggie-Upton case Left prepares for Labour conference What we do when the air-con fails Jazz on Film New offer to Nottingham Health Care Support Workers Turbine-base workers vote to strike Jobs fight at University of Nottingham Sultana-Corbyn: what the left groups say More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-749-6-august-2025

Due to a technical error, the audio of Solidarity 748 was compiled and uploaded only as far as page 20. The final missing section is uploaded here. Apologies. Articles: Unite union votes for Ukraine solidarity Letter: Two queries Flurry of Ofsted-induced mania Football and women in Iran Labour: back the bin strikers! Why Rayner won't talk to her union reps Nottingham HCSWs talk of escalation More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-748-16-july-2025

Solidarity 748, 16 July 2025. Articles: Fight to roll back cuts How to tax the rich Support the resident doctor strikes! Rebuild the NHS! Tax top wealth! Gaza: stop the bombs! Push labour movement to campaign for migrant rights Is Murray flying a kite? “Anti-Israel” does not equal “left-wing” War, power, and sexual violence Putin looks to a long war Worker power can keep us cool LGBT+ Labour suspends its AGM New party "not an overnight process" Fund higher education, fee-free! Story of a long Covid battle Eye on the left: Behind the "new party" squabbles The tariff war and Chinese capitalism The Trotskyists at Vorkuta Dangers in the new NHS plan Serbian protests challenge Vučić The SWP and political Islam Anti-Trump protests on 17 July Union slams Trump’s record Bernie Sanders on the BBB and on the media Bureaucrats, bureaucratisation, and how to beat them Letter: The Supreme Court and extrapolations Letter: Trade unions must do more to fight welfare cuts Birmingham mass picket on 25 July Unite union votes for Ukraine solidarity Letter: Two queries Flurry of Ofsted-induced mania Football and women in Iran Labour: back the bin strikers! Why Rayner won't talk to her union reps Nottingham HCSWs talk of escalation More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-748-16-july-2025

Solidarity 747, 2 July 2025. Articles: Pay and funding: Winning strategy required Union-Labour rebels can beat cuts Setbacks at Unison conference Union win in Lambeth Israel out of Gaza and West Bank! Peace! EHRC “update” still in limbo “I am not the accused, I am the accuser” “No vote for Labour”… but does it matter? Zohran Mamdani wins the primary Why do “enemy feminisms” abound? Oppose the Palestine Action ban! Travelling without trashing the world Socialist Party equivocates on Israel-Iran A reply to Michael Chessum Hong Kong left forced into disbanding Marx on breaking the chains We still need to think about Stalinism Debate: USA: the unions can stop Trump Story of a long Covid battle Letter: The Supreme Court did think it through Letter: Reform UK is "Nationalist Authoritarian Right" Scarlett Letters bookshop goes into occupation RMT AGM debates policy Why not a mess room for all? M*A*S*H and Loretta Swit Doctors ballot over pay Nottingham strikers are stronger Sheffield mass picket on 9 July More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-747-2-july-2025

Solidarity 746, 18 June 2025. Articles: Schools: fight for pay and funding! Israel-Iran: Stop the War! Many fronts in Trump’s power grab Iranian left calls for peace Support opposition in Israel and in Iran! Billions in cuts still underway Lambeth set to strike China apologist’s accidental revelations The life and work of Dan Gallin, 1931-2025 Pushing back on EHRC guidance Abortion: end the 1861 law! Sheffield University win on trans rights Still on “local independent” line An underwhelming Labour victory Poor sick pay costs lives Labour after the Spending Review Gaps in Employment Rights Bill Workers’ Liberty at LO fête The legacy of Phyllis and Julius Jacobson Many millions out against Trump Sanders declares new “Fighting Oligarchy” drive How Putin rules in occupied Ukraine Woke but antiworker? Birmingham bin strike could last until December Sheffield injunction against strike Save Ealing’s children’s centres! The NPA-R and Lotta Comunista Breathless (À bout de souffle), 1960 Orgreave inquiry now! Nottm HCSWs are stronger than ever More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-746-18-june-2025

Women's Fightback #34, Summer 2025. 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! https://workersliberty.org/wf The blunt truth is that things aren't getting better. Austerity continues in the UK and women are at the sharp end of it. The Supreme Court ruling on the definition of sex, and more substantively its interpretation in the hands of state and corporate institutions, is a major setback for the ability of trans people to live with dignity. The police have been instructed to seize the phones and search the homes of women who have late-term miscarriages, so that they might be prosecuted under a law from 1861. The manosphere is turning young men into activist misogynists. But the future is yet to be written. In this issue, we bring you news of these developments but we also set out what must be done – and what feminists, socialists, trade unionists, and trans rights activists are already doing – to push back. The battle lines run through our culture as well as our politics. So we also bring you reviews of a new stage play looking at Section 28, recipes from an incarcerated Iranian feminist, and much more. Articles: Pathways to poverty, women and the welfare state Death by a thousand cuts. A short history of getting less and needing more On the slogan 'Welfare not Warfare' Saving our domestic violence services After the Supreme Court: the fight for trans rights Trans rights: the fight in the unions We fight again: a brief history of trans rights in Britain After the Act and the new Section 28 Why we marched Lost Boys Pink-pilled Sex wars: why we stand for sex positive feminism Workers for decrim The weight of words Miscarriage? Still birth? Now the police will search your phone The Evin Prison Bakers' Club Sudanese women and the crisis of indifference The cult of patriarchy (and how to resist it) Women without kids Ella Keidar released from prison

Solidarity 745, 4 June 2025. Articles: Tax the rich to fund social provision "Black flag" means an order you must disobey Academics in Israel oppose the war Anti-war movement in Israel stands firm Unions must move against Trump after 14 June Gaza: ceasefire now! Lambeth libraries vote for strikes Build on union-Labour revolt against benefit cuts! Denouncing Starmer for saying the same Islamists flex their muscles in Bangladesh The jewel in the “local independent” crown? How unions can defend trans people Letter: Everyone is male or female Khan challenges Starmer on cannabis Inflation in 2025? EHRC contradicts “free from harassment” Stormy days for Labour leadership “Not all Bengalis”: Bangladesh’s highlands The revolutionary left 34 years after 1991 PKK to disband, but Kurdish rights doubtful Quiet conference, tense year ahead? PCS leaders fold on pay When it all goes wrong at once Marcel Ophuls (1927-2025) Planning next steps against the closures Nottingham strike steps up 9-13 June Our 31 May day school More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-745-4-june-2025

Solidarity 744, 28 May 2025. Articles: Independent Labour Day in Singapore Care workers strike in Scotland Kneecap: drop the charges! After winter fuel u-turn: stop benefit cuts Birmingham bins need action to break deadlock Lambeth ballot closes 29 May Doctors ballot from 27 May Letter: Wrong on the Supreme Court Ignorant and cowardly: PCS leaders on trans rights Diary of a Tube driver: "£3k a month to look at the depot?" The origins of Militant and of the Socialist Party Great British National Strike: a flop, but a warning The Green Party: a home for socialists? This “anti-Zionism” is antisemitism MPs to debate decriminalising abortion We demand... what change? Condemned… for condemning Hamas Stop the war! Aid to Gaza! Recognise Palestine! Fight in the labour movement for trans rights Editorial: For Ukraine, and for Ukraine’s workers! Mass deportations and 14 June Another imperialist denial of Ukraine 2025 inflation at 8% or more The 1944 coup attempt against Hitler The fall of "orthodox" illusions Mass council house-building needed More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-744-28-may-2025

Solidarity 743, 14 May 2025. Articles: We need care workers, not Starmer's demagogy Trump’s road to economic chaos and autocracy Peace! Two states and equal rights! “Change is needed, and possible” The mask slips on Putin and Ukraine Turkish union’s whole leadership arrested Step up fight on benefit cuts! Iran: against war, against nuclear weapons Unions can push back for trans rights Open borders! Migrant and local workers’ unity Another version of Collective? Finland, the labour movement and women's rights Feminism, capitalism, and alienation The case for open borders International conference on 16-18 May Big vehicle-workers’ strike in China GMB takes Amazon to court Against war over Kashmir The cavalry at Lifford Lane Why is this the court’s problem? Setback in PCS election Disney’s Bambi and the original Letter: Who torched the Reichstag? Stop cuts in NHS! Vindictiveness at University of East Anglia Universities continue cuts More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-743-14-may-2025

Solidarity 742, 7 May 2025. Articles: NASUWT General Secretary: an appointment masquerading as an election Against tariff wars, workers’ unity "Scientifically illiterate ruling", say doctors The benefits of Brexit? Scrap the benefit cuts! Ukraine signs minerals deal with the US Students join university cuts fight Defy the EHRC non-guidance! Unions move to defend trans members Solidarity? No, you’re just a proxy The dogs that didn’t bark Unions are central to eco-policy Schools and the “guidance” documents Trump speeds power-grab Different roads to autocracy May Day in the USA Israel goes for “conquer” and “hold” Reform wins are a warning Workers’ Liberty debates the year ahead How we can learn from history Kneecap and the right to offend Link pay battles across public sector The debates due at PCS conference Do the trial, or lose the money Leni Riefenstahl: Hitler’s filmmaker MHCLG first wave is strong Support the bin workers! Yes, the HCSWs can win Uber drivers strike on 1 May More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-742-7-may-2025

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

Solidarity 741, 23 April 2025. Articles: Their globalisation may be crashing, but ours must not 20,000 protest for trans rights! Israel pushes people to the coast in Gaza NEU conference votes to back Ukraine The Morning Star’s Jewish problem What’s happening with We Demand Change Make Unison act against benefit cuts! Having to travel for abortion Students back Sheffield University strike USA: has the pushback started? “No Kings”, 1775 and 2025 The realities of climate migration “Neither London nor Birmingham, but the bostin’ Black Country!” How workers beat the Kapp putsch Li Dazhao, China’s first communist The Bolsheviks and the syndicalists Vote for a fighting democratic union in PCS MHCLG striking from 22 April Wide support for hospital workers FM strikes pause for reballots G4S striker says: no two-tier system! How can he get away with it? Agnès Varda: a life in images Birmingham bin strikers reject new offer Nationalise steel! A workers' plan for green transition! Lambeth libraries to ballot from 30 April More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/index.php/publications/solidarity/solidarity-741-23-april-2025

Solidarity 740, 9 April 2025. Articles: Use referendum vote as launchpad for a fight for a four-day week on our terms The most drastic shift ever in capitalist world economics Unite to stop the cuts! Starvation and murder in Gaza Hurtling towards authoritarianism Full-spectrum response needed Fight back against university cuts Lambeth Unison against zero-hours The “traitor” and the Stalinist Lever, or “alternative labour movement”? Trump backs UK anti-abortionists Beating the benefit cuts Environment: a triple crisis Wait for a Moses? No, organise! Raid on Youth Demand meeting Germany seeks to deport protesters Decades of national revolt Unite: stop law cases, sort out scandal Ukraine: not a proxy war Poverty kills, austerity kills A week with Standing Together A strike before I was born shaped me "Workers'" candidate attacks Reform from right Hoping his own side will curb Trump The most popular cartoon character you’ve never seen Nottingham HCAs strike for pay Act now on Network Rail pay More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-740-9-april-2025

Solidarity 739, 2 April 2025. Articles: Beating the benefit cuts 5 April action against Trump coup Threat from Reform on 1 May Will Trump become king? Resistance must be built Ceasefire! IDF out of West Bank and Gaza! Don’t let Trump keep us off-kilter A useful idiot for the Morning Star Benefit cuts will hit women worst Discussing Europe-wide Ukraine solidarity Fifteen JSO people still in jail An engine that isn’t driving A gap to fill on Labour left Lively conference, unclear plans French far right is not finished Myanmar: a crisis within a crisis Debate: From Myanmar to Ukraine A “frontlash” from neoliberalism Lenin and Joe Colombo Workers need party politics How Reeves painted Labour into a corner Listening to my friends argue about politics The world inside Facebook FM workers out again from 7 April Sheffield and Cardiff UCU vote for strikes Capita out again to 22 April Solidarity means learning fast When the Post exposed Nixon Strike vote in Rayner’s department Birmingham bins on indefinite strike Lambeth Unison sets red lines More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-739-2-april-2025

Solidarity 738, 26 March 2025. Articles: Coup in the USA Tax top wealth, stop the cuts! A movement not a moment Restore ceasefire! Peace! Dumbing down America for dictatorship The Maga takeover in microcosm Defending Duterte... and Chinese “democracy” Israel has had enough of Netanyahu Women’s TUC backs decriminalisation Free Mahrang Baloch! Free Balochistan! Draft constitution will not subdue fears in Syria Beyond EVs to eco-aware transport Street protests defy Turkey’s clampdown Like People’s Assembly, but not quite Fear and loathing in the Trump regime Scrap 50% rule now The cruelty of shrivelled souls Debate: Against cuts and against trashing Ukraine Lambeth ballots for anti-cuts strike Sheffield students vote to back UCU strikes Three schools reprieved in Isle of Wight When “agitation” contradicted propaganda Drop charges against the Drax 15! What resonated was socialist feminism Matt Wrack goes for Nasuwt job Unison: vote TFRC and build the grassroots! A Swedish classic: Wild Strawberries FM workers out again 7-13 April Teachers’ pay: vote for strikes! GSTT cleaners can win RMT activists launch new network More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-738-26-march-2025

Solidarity 737, 19 March 2025. Articles: Resistance is urgent Force Netanyahu to back down Stop the cuts! Stop cuts, tax top wealth Bulldozing from the rostrum Why to support increased defence spending Backlashes, then and now How to travel with fewer emissions Release Mahmoud Khalil! Stop the deportations “Scrap fiscal rules” is no quick fix Will the Morning Star row back? Bangladesh students launch new “centre” party Workers central in Belarus Justice for Ukraine, not a Trump-Putin deal How hidden doctrine swayed politics in the crisis Union action made socialism real Scrap 50% turnout rule now! Concede? Not before a fight The greatest detective of all time Solidarity with hard-pressed Ukraine! Isle of Wight schools ballot for strikes Facilities Management: be ready for re-ballots More online: https://workersliberty.org/index.php/publications/solidarity/solidarity-737-19-march-2025

Solidarity 736, 12 March 2025. Articles: Trump and Netanyahu push to restart war Block the cuts! Tax the rich! Against Putin-Trump! Ceasefire-protection troops in Ukraine? Stop Trump’s oligarchy! Permanent ceasefire! Rebuild Gaza! No increase in military spending! Unhealthy enthusiasm for Wagenknecht Belarus: Time for solidarity against Putin Climate change feeds child marriages Sanctions on Syria increase poverty The evolution of Extinction Rebellion Sheffield holds anti-cuts referendum Film shows Israeli-Palestinian “co-resistance” How McSweeney made his coup Minerals deal? Stand with Ukrainian workers Former Polish political prisoners denounce Trump What was “militancy” in Northern Ireland in 1968-69? After Reform UK, the RCP’s turn next? Gaining a real right to strike A new threat from H5N1 bird flu This “four day week” is no good PCS ballots in Rayner’s department The best Australian film ever? FM strikes may restart NEU strike against victimisation A lot more online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-736-12-march-2025

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

Solidarity 735, 26 February 2025. Articles: Against the Trump-Putin carve up of Ukraine! Save and complete the ceasefire Stop Trump’s coup in USA Day of action, but fightback needs more Israel out of the West Bank! Having a laugh about Ukraine “Only peace will bring security” Chemicals that pollute forever Trump, Queensland, and apathy Marx and Engels on the German elections The resurgence of “Blue Labour” An “existential threat” from Trump “Contracted-out” campaigns will not beat Reform Far-right and left gains in German poll Ukraine’s unions need our support Make Ukraine pay for “left” posturing? Debating Ukraine and Israel-Palestine Privatised water is an organised rip-off More on Bob Dylan Fund transport by taxing the wealthy A compromise on refresher training Letter: Dimensions of the gender gaps The Scopes trial: issues then and now Stop the cuts, use reserves Lambeth Unison moves against cuts Capita strike from 26 February More: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-735-26-february-2025