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Solidarity 708, 8 May 2024. Articles: Why we call for peace Restore and extend free movement Stop Rafah assault! Let Gaza live! Solidarity and links, not boycott New Putin offensive looms in Ukraine After 2 May: shape what’s next Protests in Israel demand ceasefire now Hamas, two states, and the way to equal rights A “slight bit of truth” and Odesa Georgia at a crossroads Petro-dollars versus equality and rights US campuses defy police repression Protest camps spread across Britain Climate adaptation: lessons from Covid Assailing workers' rights rather than sickness Rochdale result: a Galloway flop Humza Yousaf resigns as Scottish First Minister A tale of three RCPs The Carnation Revolution remembered From revolution to “stabilising” coup The road to Bolshevism: Adding agitation to education CWU: dragging back what was lost Upbeat after our conference Emancipation: why the working class? Mick Cash: another place-holder Barnet Unison Kino Eye: The Gulag on film Stop the Tories’ Rwanda clampdown! University unions edge towards action Doctors to strike in Northern Ireland More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-708-8-may-2024

Solidarity 707, 24 April 2024. Articles include: To green economic life: democracy! Israel-Iran: against war! Trump’s trial and a UAW victory Reverse the Brexit fiasco! Nottingham plans anti-cuts May Day Iranian left: “This is not our war” Ceasefire, peace, two states! Terror in West Bank Galloway and “unnecessary culture wars” Free speech even for the odious! Germany: push against 1871 abortion law Scottish Labour passive as SNP declines Third Period, First Republic, and symbols The climate and Memorial Day Stop the Rwanda scheme! National Union of Students conference: an undemocratic shambles The what, who, and why of socialism Wandsworth Prison campaign launched Against cuts! Fight for free education! Russia’s revolutionaries in the 1890s Action at Goldsmiths Bob Crow: differences and limits Amazon workers win ballot go-ahead Kino Eye: Adaptations of 1984 Vote for strikes and new PCS leaders Court win on right to strike Unison NEC backs Ukraine solidarity Glasgow: what sort of "anti-Zionism"? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-707-24-april-2024

Solidarity 706, 17 April 2024. Articles: Kino Eye: The Miners’ Hymns The loot of the billionaires No to Iran-Israel war Ukraine in a corner: arm Ukraine! Galloway’s reactionary "grand alliance" The working class and the overpaid Solidarity with peace activists in Israel Keep pressing for ceasefire and peace Watching the real world From Madrid to Kyiv Inequalities in fertility care Red Sea and Yemen’s people under Houthi attack Fare Free London wins union support Debate: Boris Savinkov: a counter-revolutionary Cass final report: a major setback Starmer gives "total" pledge to arms industry Young Labour shifts to right The road to Bolshevism: Study, explain, agitate: how socialists organise The Chartist non-revolution of 1848 Unite steelworkers vote to strike Unison health conference ducks pay issue General secretaries I have known Wirral CSWs win their battle Slouching towards the election? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-706-17-april-2024

Solidarity 705, 10 April 2024. Articles may include: For a “party of protest” Peace and equal rights Vote for new leaders in PCS! How to win elections Trump and the billionaires Back anti-war movement in Israel A new left party jettisoning socialism “Planetary boundaries” don’t say it all Anti-abortionists step up backlash Monkey Man, Modi, and Netflix Boris Savinkov: forgotten revolutionary Debate: Why the Starmer-Biden poll difference? Hong Kong passes new “security law” The road to Bolshevism: how a new start came from exile Talking about Israel in Germany Debate: Different views on Trump Worker demands for green conversion Debate: views on the Labour Party Succession planning in unions Letter: Fatal flaw in Irish polemic Letter: Seeing “parallels” between Algeria and Ireland The zigzags of technology Kino Eye: Comradeship across borders NEU fails to vote on Ukraine Junior doctors vote 97% for more action on pay restoration Goldsmiths starts action against cuts More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-705-10-april-2024

Solidarity 704, 3 April 2024. Articles may include: Transform the labour movement! Ceasefire, peace, two states! Owen Jones: From campaigner to social media "brand" Protests increase in Israel Cuts campaign grows in Nottingham Putin goes for more repression and war Cuts at UK universities Domestic violence rooted in poverty and cuts Economy, life, and caring Khan report: missing the Tories’ blame Gaza and the left, USA and UK Push in schools union to back Ukraine Begging banned in Europe’s wealthiest capital The Dmitriev Affair and Putin's Russia Haiti in social meltdown Letter: Discuss climate change seriously Letter: Refer to earlier discussions Conspiracy theory on Moscow bombing serves Putin From ultra-patience to ultra-impatience Public ownership of water and utilities! Glasgow East Women's Aid closed Kino Eye: Black and white unite and fight RMT members: vote yes to renew mandate on jobs, pensions, agreements Back "Trains Modernisation" strikes Amazon seeks to scupper union bid More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-704-3-april-2024

Solidarity 703, 20 March 2024. Articles include: Our demands and a workers' government End the war! Peace! Two states! “Standing Together” acts on aid for Gaza Sheriff of Nottingham votes against cuts Tory demagogues turn on dissent Textile workers strike in Egypt Young men drifting to the right Singer with a tin ear Vote Steve for NUS VPHE Unrest rises in Iran SRM: research now, but more only under socialism Portugal: fading memories of fascism? The road to Bolshevism: Plekhanov as “the father of Russian Marxism? What is Standing Together? New shifts on far right Transnistria, Moldova, and Putin Momentum convention: a mixed bag Food couriers pause action Amazon: more strikes Bombastic, “dogmatic instead of critical” Defend right to bad posters A strange sort of Big Bang Leeds pledges no “work notices” A 1940 film about the miners’ battles Stop cuts at Goldsmiths Tata: nationalise, don’t subsidise Pay: time to fight to win More online: https://www.workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-703-20-march-2024

Solidarity 702, 6 March 2024. Articles include: Fight for a workers' government Food couriers can win a living wage! Let Gaza live! Peace! Two states! Refusing in the name of hope Israelis push against the "occupation occupying Israel" Ceasefire, end siege, free hostages, reconstruct Gaza Morning Star lurches further "Red-Brown" New far-right group sets election plans "Pro-life" and the Manchester protests Alan Bates is wrong about Amazon Reinstate Lambeth councillors! We may be near tipping points Research ban will not make us safer Alan Woods and his "born again" RCP Antisemitism and Israel Two years later, anguish, anger, acceptance The fight for free unions in Belarus The road to Bolshevism: the triumph and defeat of Narodnaya Volya Repeal all the anti-protest laws! At the court of King Donald Trade unionists against Galloway Goldsmiths UCU ballots against cuts Free public transport? Why not? Grady scrapes back in The greatest French film ever? More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-702-6-march-2024

Solidarity 701, 28 February 2024. Articles include: The cuts and the rich Netanyahu out! End the war! Plans set for Drax 8-13 August Couriers to strike every Friday It's the rich who make "no-go areas" Stopping the cuts in Nottingham Ceasefire, peace, two states Labour and Gaza: now back Standing Together Playing parliamentary games on Gaza Rediscovering Dorothy Arzner Work and menopause Being anti-Labour doesn't put Galloway on the left Trump: the plutocrat as monarch Polish farmers block Ukrainian grain Students organise against cuts Russia turns Ukraine's occupied areas into an armed camp The road to Bolshevism: The Northern Union of Workers Iran: steel workers fight back Making reality of a moderate "utopia" Exposés of antisemitism Junior doctors remain strong Cohorts on the railway Steel unions call ballots for action PCS: undermining a fightback Jewish identity in Britain today Bristol Palestine Alliance and antisemitism More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-701-28-february-2024

Solidarity 700, 21 February 2024. Articles include: Gaza: End the war! Rebuild life! Labour: fit to oust the Tories? “Post-materialism”: 1796, 1840s, 1970s, and today Murray gets his way on Galloway Who is George Galloway? Backlash after unions’ trans-rights vote Solidarity with Ukraine! After Putin murders Navalny How to beat antisemitism AWL conference 2024 Prices are flat, but... David Miller’s world Pakistan in turmoil after poll "Putin has murdered Navalny” 2014: how Russia seized Crimea The Zapatistas after 30 years When the workers awakened in Moscow and Petersburg Axelrod the pioneer Civil service pay down 15 to 38% Belarus's 25 February election is rigged Don’t extradite Assange! Coming to see how to fight for a future Ridley Scott’s Napoleon Trust rules out "work notices": make others do the same Join junior doctors’ pickets! Northumbria university cuts Couriers out again on 23 February Word4Word: Mau-mauing Word4Word: Bog standard Removing Can Atalay from parliament is an attack on the working class Paramaz and his comrades in Beyazıt Square Letter: Not a response to others' slogans About Lula's statements on Gaza More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-700-21-february-2024

Solidarity 699, 14 February 2024. Articles include: Make unions commit Labour to green and renewable energy! Why do “fiscal rules” squeeze so tight? Stop massacre in Rafah Ukraine on the back foot Northern Ireland: new strikes set for 27-29 February Full ceasefire, peace, two states Social provision and market rules “Someday this war’s gonna end” Union sets plan on sexual harassment “Free Fares London” campaign launches A hero? Better a democratic leader No run for mayor A half-story of the miners’ strike Gramsci’s laboratory: “subaltern social groups” The road to Bolshevism: the Narodnik labour movement Starmer to blame for Rochdale fiasco Jewish students protest at Miller Letter: “Massacre” too weak a term? David Miller’s world: “Zionist spies” operate everywhere “Minimum” is 100%? Days of Heaven Food couriers strike 14 February Amazon strikes again at BHX4 Junior doctors strike 24-28 February More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-699-14-february-2024

Solidarity 698, 7 February 2024. Articles include: Labour: tax rich to repair NHS! Stop starvation in Gaza! Gaza: build solidarity on the ground Sinn Féin wins First Minister Teetering on the brink of wider war Farmers’ protests sweep Europe Morning Star confused on Labour Stalin and the Angels Gender bias in Indian courts Academic freedom battle remains “Efforts to silence us serve Israel’s leaders” Boycott calls are a diversion from solidarity Drax camp planned for 8-13 August Quetta rally hits Baloch repression The road to Bolshevism: Narodniks and workers LGBT+ conference is largest-ever Roy Battersby (1936-2024) Oust Grady, vote for democracy The longest strike in NHS history Turkey sacks a left MP Tube: Bumped Up Pay Offer Received Debate: Genocide charge not so easily dismissed More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-698-7-february-2024

Solidarity 697, 31 January 2024. Articles may include: Minimum Service: we need open defiance Let Gaza live! Socialism is not about “good old days” Build alliances for ceasefire and peace Solidarity, not boycotts More action in Northern Ireland pay fight Stormont close to recall Steel jobs: a workers’ plan needed Wagenknecht’s link with far-right organiser What the “Rustin” film leaves out Unions should follow Royal College Catastrophe in Gaza, says Sanders Yes, the day will come From the Sahara to algal blooms Boycott Germany is a nonesense The road to Bolshevism USA: a blueprint for dictatorship Letter: Too weak against US-UK bombings Still rejoicing at the pogrom? Suburbs, sprawl, and organising Letter: La Follette: no glory and no analogy Training in hit-and-miss mode Amazon faces more strikes after Sutton Coldfield action The Seven Samurai Joint slate agreed in PCS TOCs drivers' strikes: LNER shows escalation can work Tube: Fight now on next year’s pay Debate: Genocide charge not so easily dismissed Four books on antisemitism More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-697-31-january-2024

Women's Fightback 30, Spring 2024. 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. Articles include: We believe in joint struggle, an interview with Rula Daood A tribute to Vivian Women and the miners' strike 1984-5 Gays and miners: the enemy within Lessons from Mexico Free the HK47! Exile and the fight for democracy Women in revolt! Dee Dickens: Medusa A note on brothel-keeping On reading Annie Ernaux Champion of outcasts: Lisetta Carmi The Roma struggle for health Unwell women Abolition revolution The fight for justice More online and buy: https://workersliberty.org/wf

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.

Women's Fightback 29, Autumn 2023. Articles include: Sheffield's First Radical Pride 25,000 March for Trans Pride An achievable average, being a woman of colour around the world The liberating power of monstrosity Larisa Reisner a Bolshevik, revolutionary life Caste, class and rape Only Yes Means Yes Jina Mahsa Amini, one year on In defence of pregnant people Lessons from the Women's Liberation Movement The Fight Against Section 219a Our policy: abortion as early as possible, as late as necessary Bodies Under Siege Abortion: our demands Notes from Berlin: what we can learn from the hospital movement More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/womens-fightback/womens-fightback-29-autumn-2023

Solidarity 696, 17 January 2024. Articles may include: Halt the war. Peace. Two states We look to solidarity with the movement in Israel, not the ICJ Push back the Tories! Yemen: Oppose Houthi attacks! No support for US-UK bombing! Inequality keeps spiralling Support Ukraine, criticise Belgorod bombing Millions in Russia disagree with war and Putin John Pilger: once an inspiring truth-teller 1924: when they all came together Firefighters win on maternity pay Capitalist markets block social foresight Sudan: RSF slaughter escalates Amazon drought signals wider dangers Paul Burkett, 1956-2024 Economic strife in Iran Defeat Rwanda scheme, win asylum rights Peace with a Palestinian state Stop and make peace A joint struggle for peace and liberty Will the Covid inquiry deliver political accountability? Was 7 October an act of “decolonisation”? Big socialist debates before 1914 Letter: risks from invasive species 1914-18 in Ireland: different sorts of anti-war Helping fellow workers? Or not? Amazon strikes spread to new site Kino Eye: Abel Gance's Napoleon Rail strike challenges Minimum Service Law PCS impasse on pay Antonio Negri, 1933-2023 The Houthis and Yemen Solidarity with the Baloch protests! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-696-17-january-2024

Solidarity 695, 10 January 2024. Articles include: Full ceasefire, peace, two states! Popes, presidents, and markets Yes, an early election; but fight to block Tories now Minimum Service Law: win “no work notice” pledges! Using Gaza to undermine Ukraine Ukraine in danger Run water, post, and other utilities as public services Reject new schools "guidance"! Free Joe Outlaw! End IPP sentences! Free the HK 47! Free Jimmy Lai! Neglect hits women's health Nikolai Yuriev gets 18 years Trans people in Russia "scared for their lives" Nativism, species, and ecology Hamas's record in power in Gaza Building an alternative in Israel Israel: getting a hearing for peace Myanmar: a challenge for unions JSO people in jail, Elbit protesters on trial 5 December protest for Sarah Jane Baker Letter: A reply to critics Letter: socialism on Mars Foster: soiling his own nest Christmas on the tracks Threat of strikes wins concessions: name more dates to keep the pressure on! Kino Eye. Oppenheimer: a complex film Unity can break LU control Junior doctors need solidarity More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-695-10-january-2024

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

Solidarity 693, 6 December 2023. Articles include: Ceasefire, peace, two states PCS vote closes on 14 December “The conditions were catastrophic” To curb emissions, curb the rich Fight council cuts, not just section 114 Kissinger: war criminal but wise? The name of the new world we aim for The Palestinians in Israel The populist path to authoritarian rule Behind the prisoner-hostage deal Busting myths about migration The persistent weight wage gap for women For researching a "brutally ugly" climate fix For analysis, not wordplay! Making “non-compliance” a reality Another look at Gaza demonstration slogans A book about contradictions Building Nottingham Friends of Standing Together Union pushes plan for steel A day’s work and nothing happening Free the JSO prisoners! Junior doctors to strike again Flame and Citron TOCs workers accept deal More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-693-6-december-2023

Apologies for the months-long delay on the audio of this issue. Solidarity 685, 4 October 2023. Articles: Turning things round in Labour Populist right threatens Ukraine support Wind back Brexit! Russell Brand’s friends on the (supposed) left "A human being trying my best" Gove sends in Commissioners to raid Birmingham Ukraine’s labour movement defiant Labour, democracy, and Rosebank US auto workers' strike spreads Sunak: profit before environment UAW: a fight for the working class How to raise £30 billion for the NHS Asylum: Starmer panders to Tories War moves wipe out Armenian enclave Take the wealth from the billionaires Revolution: the “Finnish road” vs "the Russian" Labour’s NPF, certainty, and class Biden, Trump, Starmer, and strikes Veolia workers strike for pay. Plus: debate on Veolia and boycotting Russia How to help Myanmar A critical eye on Nancy Fraser Letter: Missing element on TUC Letter: Opposing “no platform” Regrouping on council pay Black soldiers in the Civil War Trackwork in winter and summer Camden traffic wardens win Doctors need expanded support UCU re-ballots amidst ferment Cancelled stations strikes: maintaining and escalating action could’ve won more On the retirement of Megan Rapinoe Merseyside firefighters resist attacks on conditions Word4Word: Emancipation Unison schools strike in Scotland 26-28 September Support Lloyd and Moloney in PCS! More online: https://workersliberty.org/publications/solidarity/solidarity-685-4-october-2023