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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 44m

Pat McFadden has scrapped a draft White Paper "reforming" (cutting) welfare benefits but plans to pursue the agenda one cut at a time.

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Government backs off, for now, on disability cuts

The Disability News Service has reported that the government’s plans to “reform” (ie. cut) welfare benefits for disabled people lie ‘in tatters’.

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 3h

Israeli socialist Asaf Yakir and British-Palestinian activist Jasr Kawkby discuss building solidarity with all struggles for democracy, equality, and workers’ power in the Middle East.
On Sunday at 1pm, at IFF25. 22-23 Nov, London.
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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 3h

We stand with those working to build a new majority within Israeli society for a genuine peace based on equal rights for Israeli Jews and Palestinian Arabs, including equal rights to self-determination and statehood.

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Far from peace in Gaza

“With the so-called ‘Yellow Line,’ Israel has divided the Strip in two: West Gaza, encompassing 42 percent, where Hamas remains in control and over two million people are crammed in; and East Gaza,…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 6h

New issue of Solidarity out now! Link: bit.ly/sol-755

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 2d

Antisemitism — the belief in a malign, socially-manipulative, world-shaping power that is coded as Jewish or “Zionist” — is not the sole property of the far right argues Daniel Randall at 2.40pm Sunday, at IFF25. 22-23 Nov, London.
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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 4d

A tenant’s rights activist looks at the 1938 rent strike in Stepney to introduce a discussion on the contemporary housing crisis & how socialists can organise around the issues —
at 11.45am on Saturday — at IFF25. (22-23 Nov), London.
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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 5d

In the 20th century states that called themselves “communist” were a major force in world politics. But what did they truly represent? Workers’ Liberty debates Socialismo o Barbarie @SocialismooBar1 at IFF25.
22-23 Nov.
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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 5d

📅Ideas for Freedom takes place on 22-23 November in Islington.
🤔 + debate on 'A New Party' on Friday 21 November, 7pm at Indian YMCA, Fitzroy Square, London W1 6AQ.
🎟️ More + wkd/day/half-day tickets: www.workersliberty.org/iff25
🥐Free creche, cheap food and crash accommodation.

Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 8d

The PCS civil service union has re-entered negotionations with the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) over their long running dispute.

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MHCLG dispute wins talks

Members of the PCS civil service union in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) have entered a potentially critical stage in their long running dispute over: • Office…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 8d

Workers at the National Coal Mining Museum for England, members of Unison, have been on strike for nine weeks.

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Museum workers out for nine weeks

Workers at the National Coal Mining Museum for England have been on strike for nine weeks. Around 45 members of Unison, including mine guides, horsekeepers, and cleaners, are striking in a dispute…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 9d

Sheffield students in the Anti-Cuts coalition are preparing for the coming UCU strike; meanwhile more cuts hit unis everywhere.

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Sheffield University prepares for strikes

Students have been back on campus in most parts of the UK only for a few weeks, but the rotten stench of cuts and underfunding has been lingering around since the last academic year, brewing over the…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 9d

Jean-Jacques Annaud’s film The Name of the Rose (1986), adapted from the novel by Umberto Eco.

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A film centred on a library

Eric Lee’s recent article on libraries re-kindled some happy memories of various libraries I have visited over the years. However, I can only think of one film (there must be more) which is centred…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 9d

The election scheduled for late 2025 in Myanmar is widely viewed as a fraudulent spectacle rather than a genuine democratic exercise by the population inside Myanmar and the resistance groups.

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Myanmar's 2025 sham election: a turning point?

Since the 2021 military coup that overthrew democracy in Myanmar, various forms of resistance have emerged against the military dictatorship. These efforts, grouped together as the Spring Revolution,…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 9d

Diary of a Railworker: Stuck, waiting for "further instructions".

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How not to deal with signal failure

“Go and wait on the platform”. The instructions from the Trains Manager don’t really make a lot of sense. “So there will be a train I can take back west?” “Go to the westbound and you will get…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 9d

Birmingham’s Labour council has settled its outstanding equal pay claims — time to settle the dispute with refuse workers.

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New push to restore Birmingham bins deal

Birmingham’s Labour council, under the command of commissioners sent by central government after it went into “Section 114”, has settled its outstanding equal pay claims. According to the Unite…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 10d

Janine Booth will speak about her new book, ‘Railworkers 200’, (£5 from www.workersliberty.org/rail200) — two hundred years of railway workers and their struggles, at Ideas for Freedom on Sunday 23 Nov.
⏰ IFF25, 22-23 Nov, Islington.
ℹ More + tickets: www.workersliberty.org/iff25

Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 10d

An opportunity has been missed to link the pay fight more effectively across all companies involved in the Greater Manchester bus drivers' strike.

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Buses: time to level up!

The bus strikes in Greater Manchester are off again for now, following improved pay won by drivers’ strike action through their union Unite. Drivers at First Bus in Rochdale settled first, then…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 10d

Letter: The populist and Bonapartist model promoted by Mélenchon since 2017 with the foundation of “France Insoumise” is not to be confused with the question of NFP – Nouveau Front Populaire.

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Letter: France Insoumise is one thing, NFP another

The populist and Bonapartist model promoted by Melenchon since 2017 with the foundation of “France Insoumise” is not to be confused with the question of NFP – Nouveau Front Populaire.

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 10d

London Underground has made a new offer for 2025-6 pay and conditions.

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Tube pay: bosses budge, but we can win more

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 10d

NHS workers employed by Grosvenor Facilities Management in Newham await the latest offer to settle their long-running strike.

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GFM workers wait on new offer

Outsourced domestics, porters, kitchen, maintenance and reception staff at Newham Centre for Mental Health spent 12 October, the last day of their 26 day strike, protesting outside the London offices…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 10d

Book review: "I've read a lot of good books recently, but How to Defeat the Far Right by Nick Lowles isn’t one of them."

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Defeat the far right? Theory matters

I've read a lot of good books recently, but How to Defeat the Far Right by Nick Lowles isn’t one of them. The book is only a history of Hope not Hate. And dull. Consider my reading (most of) this…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 11d

Railworkers 200: Two centuries of rail workers and their struggles

by Janine Booth

Buy at:
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Railworkers 200

We have no big money backers. We rely on sales and donations to keep us going.

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 11d

Ideas for Freedom 2025 starts on Friday 21 November, 7pm at the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ. The weekend sessions, from 11am Saturday 22 November to 4:30pm Sunday 23 November, will be in Islington, North London.

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Ideas for Freedom sets its agenda

The Workers' Liberty weekend school Ideas for Freedom 2025 starts on Friday 21 November, 7pm at the Indian YMCA, 41 Fitzroy Square, London W1T 6AQ. The weekend sessions, from 11am Saturday 22…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 11d

"The Trumpites will not meekly surrender power to the Democrats.... the big question [now] is whether the labour movement, as the labour movement, will come to the fore against Trump. It must!"

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Debate: Seven million on the street, but Trump still holds power

Donald Trump loses all the polls, but President Trump has all the federal executive power. That is central. The build-up of support for the anti-Trump demonstrations is impressive. One estimate is…

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Workers' Liberty @workersliberty.bsky.social · 11d

Everybody's talking about it, but what will it really mean for jobs, economy, our lives?

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What AI can do, and what it can’t

A very effective marketing term. The phrase “artificial intelligence” has been used in computing since at least the 1950s. “AI” is now used as shorthand for “machine learning” and Large Language…

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