Workers Socialist League

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Socialist Press no. 121, 18 October 1978 · scan pp. 10–11 · about 547 words

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Please send me more information abou Few movements can ever have trodden on so many toes in so short a time as the Workers Socialist League.

Our movement has been at the forefront of agitation for action to break Labour's wage controls - brushing aside the posturing speeches of the TUC bureaucracy to reveal their real collaboration with Phases 1,2 and 3.

We have fought tenaciously against the sale of jobs at Speke, in steel and elsewhere by the TUC bureaucracy, and highlighted their fraudulent talk of 'fighting unemployment'.

Our members have time and again deflated fiery speeches by 'left' windbags who talk of opposition to the cuts but make no call for strikes or occupations; a8 & result we have been in the front rank of support for. every major cuts We have championed every major unionisation struggle from Grunwick to Garners and Sandersons, highlighting each step of bureaucratic betrayal and sabotage.

And the Workers Socialist League has been at the forefront of the fight in British Leyland and throughout industry to oppose the erosion of the independent shop stewards' movement through class collaboration in workers participation' bodies.

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In each of these struggles and in our international work the WSL has fought to reveal and to explain the counter-revolutionary role played by the Stalinists of the Communist Parties -whether these be 'Eurocommunist' parties or those adhering to Moscow.

Our principled stand on these issues has also vividly exposed the opportunism and confusion of the various other left groups who claim to offer workers a 'revolutionary' alternative.

And such struggles have earned our members continued witch-hunting and victimisation at the hands.of employers and union officials alike.

The lessons of these fights, together with an up-to-date assessment of the developing struggles of the working class internationally, have been reflected in our paper, Socialist Press.

Now, as struggles break out on a growing scale against Phase 4 of wage controls, and public sector workers increasingly rebel at low wages and the impact of savage Labour spending cuts the need to carry this fight Socialist League.

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WSL, 31, London i revolutionary leadership new sections of workers greater than ever.

Weapon The fighting perspective of the Trotskyist programme offers every militant a weapon in the dual fight against the employers and against the treachery of Labour and TUC bureaucrats.

We call on Socialist Press readers and supporters to consider the coming struggles, the problems they face, and the necessity of a principled lead in each day-to-day fight.

Why not join us, and help us trample on even more bureaucratic tor in the months and 'ears ahead?

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