Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

Documents

Documents and pamphlets the League published, beyond its periodicals. Most are transcribed at the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line; this list links to them there.

1976The Battle for Trotskyism
Documents of the opposition expelled from the WRP in 1974, published by the WSL · transcription at ETOL
April 1976Leon Trotsky, The Transitional Programme: WSL edition, with an introduction by Alan Thornett
Folrose, for the Workers Socialist League · scan
1976Behind the Smokescreen
An analysis of the politics of the Workers Revolutionary Party · transcription at ETOL
May 1978Tim Wohlforth, The Theory of Structural Assimilation, with Adam Westoby, "On Wohlforth's Theory of Structural Assimilation"
Folrose, for the Workers Socialist League; preface by John Lister · full text
1978The Poisoned Well
Document for the discussion before the XIth World Congress of the USFI, adopted by the WSL Second Annual Conference; printed in Trotskyism Today no. 3 (magazine) · transcription at ETOL
1980Car Industry Crisis: A Policy for BL Workers
Reprinted from Socialist Press · transcription at ETOL
1981Fusion Platform of the WSL and the I-CL
Draft platform for the fusion conference of the Workers Socialist League and the International-Communist League · transcription at ETOL
1981–1984Workers Socialist Review (four issues)
Magazine of the fused Workers Socialist League · transcriptions at ETOL
1985Cuba: Radical Face of Stalinism (John Lister)
Written largely in 1983 while Lister was in the WSL; published by the Socialist Group · transcription at ETOL