Current Work
Its student work has involved winning elected positions in the National Union of Students on the basis of campaigning for free education and other issues. Numerous supporters have won seats in the structures of the NUS. Kat Fletcher, President of the NUS from 2004 to 2006 was formerly a member of the AWL and the Campaign for Free Education. It has played leading roles in the NUS Women's and LGBT Campaigns, championing its policies on liberation and international solidarity within them, securing their representation within the NUS and working with groups such as OutRage! and Al-Fatiha.
The AWL has published the newspaper Solidarity since 1995. It also published Workers' Liberty as a roughly quarterly magazine between 1985 and 2001. In 2001 and 2002, a second series of the magazine was published in a journal format. A third series of WL started in February 2006, taking the form of thematic collections issued as inserts within Solidarity.
In 2006, the AWL reproduced the Muhammad cartoons that were originally published in Jyllands-Posten on their website, describing it as an issue of free speech. While it opposed the Iraq war, the group was critical of calls for the immediate withdrawal of US and UK forces, a position opposed by a large minority within the organisation. These and other positions have led to other far-left groups characterising the AWL as "imperialist" and "Zionist".
The AWL is active in campaigns such as No Sweat, Education Not for Sale, Feminist Fightback, Workers' Climate Action and the National Campaign Against Fees and Cuts.
The group has international links with the Solidarity Tendency, who are members of the Scottish Socialist Party, Workers' Liberty Australia and supporters within the Revolutionary Left Current in Poland and Solidarity in the United States. Its website also carries links to a number of organisations with whom it says it has "friendly relations", among them the Débat Militant/Democratie Revolutionnaire tendency in the Ligue Communiste Revolutionnaire, Liaisons, Convergences Révolutionnaires and mondialisme.org in France, the Worker-Communist Party of Iraq and Workers' Left Unity Iran.
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