he Alliance for Workers' Liberty (AWL), also known as Workers' Liberty is a small Trotskyist group based in the United Kingdom. The group has had a tempestuous history, but through its many organisational and policy changes they have remained strongly identified with their leader, Sean Matgamna. The AWL publish the newspaper Solidarity. The group retains links with British expats organised into Workers' Liberty Australia and Sarastus in Finland.In 2003 they abandoned links with sympthisers in the Ukraine who turned out be be fraudsters who had extracted several hundred pounds from the group for the translation of writings by Sean Matgamna and other AWLers into Ukranian.

The AWL traces its origins to the document What we are and what we must become, written by their leader Sean Matgamna in 1966. Publication of this document led to his expulsion from the Revolutionary Socialist League, and with a handful of supporters, he formed the Workers' Fight group. Espousing left unity, they accepted an offer in 1969 to form a faction within the International Socialists (IS, later renamed the Socialist Workers Party), and named themselves the Trotskyist Tendency.

The Trotskyist Tendency (TT) clashed with the leadership of the IS over many issues, for instance arguing against voting no to the Common Market, and for a "Troops Out" slogan regarding Northern Ireland. This was a particularly controversial issue at the time, the IS leadership arguing that an immediate withdrawal of troops would harm the nationalist cause given the attacks by some loyalists on nationalist areas.

In 1971, the leadership of the International Socialists called a special conference. They claimed the purpose of the conference as a "defusion" of the two groups, while the TT claimed that they were expelled, given that they did not wish to leave.

Outside the IS, the TT, much increased in size, again became known as Workers' Fight, until they united with Workers Power in 1975 to form the International-Communist League. This group published Workers Action, but a section of Workers Power left in 1976 to continue a separate existence. Workers Action increased its activity within the Labour Party, and in 1978 set up the Socialist Campaign for a Labour Victory. This campaign proved popular, and enabled the group to start the weekly Socialist Organiser paper.

In 1981 the I-CL fused with Alan Thornett's Workers Socialist League which had now also joined the Labour Party. The organisation mostly worked through the Socialist Organiser Alliance. In 1984, the groups split again, mostly over questions of internal democracy and different over the national question.

This project becan in 1979 as the broad left Socialist Camparign for a Labour Victory. However by 1983 the paper had been taken over by the Matgamna group (now called the Workers Socialst League) and was clearly identified with that faction. The decline of influence in the Labour Party led the group to turn to work amongst students - they had some success in winning elections in the National Union of Students, and have continued to prioritise work amongst students.

In 1985, the group dumped its previously strong anti-zionist polity and adopted a two state position on Israel-Palestine, and in 1988. The group moved away from its original position that the Stalinist states were "degenerated workers states" in favour of a bureaucratic collectivist analysis, with a minority around Martin Thomas holding a state capitalist analysis. Similarly, the group adopted a number of other positions associated with Third Camp socialism.

Socialist Organiser was not allowed to 'register'with the Labour Party 1990 - the register was an attempt to regulate entryists, but this measure was aimed at the Militant Tendency and had little effect on SO. In [[1993] Socialist Organiser re-launched its organisation as the Alliance for Workers' Liberty and the group been more ambivilant about their involvement with the Labour Party recently - zince its launch AWL members have both stood for Labour and against Labour Party candidates in general elections. In 1998, the AWL helped to set up the Socialist Alliance. Their Scottish members form the Solidarity Platform in the Scottish Socialist Party.

The AWL participated in the launch of the left newspaper 'Action for Solidarity'. They subsequently took over complete control of the journal and shortened its name to Solidarity. They publish the glossy magazine Workers' Liberty from time to time, and produce a local supplement of Solidarity for readers in Hackney which is published without charge on the internet.