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"Liberty & Solidarity therefore encourages all members to join the IWW, and where possible to involve themselves in initiatives such as NSSN, which cut across sectional trade union boundaries, and focus on a unionism of the base." | "Liberty & Solidarity therefore encourages all members to join the IWW, and where possible to involve themselves in initiatives such as NSSN, which cut across sectional trade union boundaries, and focus on a unionism of the base." | ||
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Liberty and Solidarity is a British class struggle political organisation, established in 2008, which aims to build workplace and community democracy through direct action. It has produced various public strategies, detailing it's planned involvement in Industrial and Community struggles. Two major focuses of these strategies are it's participation and support for the National Shop Stewards Network (NSSN) and the Industrial Workers of the World(IWW) as well as local community residents and tenants associations, which it hopes to see grow in membership and militancy. They have also recently formed an international strategy.
Politics
Despite not referring to any political ideology on either it's website or in any of it's various articles or strategies; it has at various times contributed to the Anarkismo website, and has also signed up to the Anarkismo statement, which requires it's participants to adhere to the Platformist Anarchist tradition. In Anarchist circles, Liberty and Solidarity is generally considered a Platformist or Neo-Platformist organisation. It takes many traditional Anarchist positions including opposition to Capitalism and the state; "If we want to decide our own future, we must organise with our fellow workers both against our bosses and against the state which seeks to protect them. We must build our own forms of organisation, to govern our movement and to replace the existing order. We oppose all forms of discrimination that divide us from our fellow workers."[1]
Unlike many other Anarchist Organisations, it supports participation in mainstream unions, in their Industrial Strategy, they explain;
"Liberty & Solidarity therefore encourages all members to join the IWW, and where possible to involve themselves in initiatives such as NSSN, which cut across sectional trade union boundaries, and focus on a unionism of the base."
To date they are the only UK Anarchist organisation that has nationally binding strategy documents, though the Anarchist Federation and Solidarity Federation have since produced similar documents.
Membership
Liberty and Solidarity has active Membership in England, Scotland, and Wales.