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is a political organisation aiming to build workplace and community democracy through direct action and struggling with all those fighting for change.
We stand for the power of workers and local people against the bosses and politicians in order to bring about radical social change, to build a society based on freedom, democracy and cooperation.
The third national conference of Liberty and Solidarity was held in Glasgow on 26th and 27th September. This conference marked a year since our first national conference in Sepetember 2008. Over the intervening year Liberty and Solidarity members have been involved in organisations and campaigns such as London Coalition Against Poverty, the Save our Blood Service Campaign, the Industrial Workers of the World, the Scottish Tenants Organisation, the National Shop Stewards Network and others. It has been a busy year in which our branches in Reading and London have consolidated and our geographic reach has spread. We now have members in London, Reading, Glasgow, Edinburgh, Newcastle, Cardiff, Bristol, Birmingham and Sheffield.
"Fewer than one in eight tenants of council or housing association properties say they would like to own their house or flat. A decade ago, the proportion was almost one in three. In a further sign of the falling appeal of home ownership, the survey has found that only 8% of people who bought a stake in their homes through shared ownership arrangements have gone on to raise their initial investment."
read the full story here:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2009/sep/21/tenants-right-to-buy-renting
Most comrades are familiar with the benefits of industrial organisation, as opposed to trade or craft based organisation. The theory that the early workers movement arrived at more than 100 years ago, that all workers along a supply chain, in the one industry, should be formed into the one organisation. It has been proven to provide greater leverage and political power for the organised working class, than the splitting up of workers in the one industry into multiple unions. As such then, the idea that socialists should push for all workers to be united and co-ordinated within the one industry, along a supply chain, into one organisation is something that is held to be something of a no-brainer, at least in theory, on the left.
Before heading up to Birmingham I was a bit nervous because there had been no signs of any national call outs from any organisations in regards to this event, so I didn't really know what to expect. But me and some others had decided we'd go have a pop at the EDL so we went anyway.
