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Trotskyism Containing 'The Poisoned Well' - the WSL document which dissects the rotten bloc of factions which has now come together to form the majority leadership of the 'United' Secretariat of the Fourth International.

The Spartacist School of Invention Turkey: the background to today's Trotskyism Today No 3, 60p plus 20p p& from WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, The Workers Socialist League is not a movement for the faint hearted. We do not offer any peaceful backwater of abstract discussion and armchair The fight we • carry through each day in the workers' movement has often been shown to have a major impact in inflicting setbacks on the labour But it does so only because our members are prepared to fight tenaciously-sometimes against heavy odds-and in the teeth of bitter hostility from union officials, Labour takers, Stalinists and al manner of "left-wing"" opportunists.

But in arguing and fighting in practice for the building • of a Trotskyist leadership capable of mobilising the working class for the struggle for state power and the establishment of a socialist society, we are carrying through a that is essential for the working class.

Unless workers are shown the necessity to break from their present leaders, they go unarmed into the fight for their independent interests.

Understanding this, our movement has from the start, stood at the forefront of agitation to break Labour's wage controls, and for action to prevent the sale of jobs at Speke, in the steel industry, and elsewhere, by TUC bureaucrats in cahoots with management.

Time and again WSL members have deflated fiery speeches by left' windbags who talk of opposition to the social spending cuts but lift not a finger to mobilise strikes or occupations.

And our members have played a key role in every major cuts struggle.

We have championed every major unionisation For a PRESS struggle against lead in the wage control, cuts and redundancies fight, from Grunwick to Garners and Sandersons, highlighting and fighting 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.

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 Partieswhether 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 the practical experToday WSL British Perspectives prevents our work having still greater impact on the class struggle. You can play a role in changing that!

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