Workers Socialist League

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Socialist Press no. 130, 20 December 1978 · scan p. 10 · about 532 words

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Please sand me more information about ti Quite frankly, we're unique!

We're the only movement that fights patiently and relentlessly for the building of a Trotskyist party capable of mobilising the working class in the struggle for state power and the establishment of a socialist society.

In doing so, the WSL alone does not shrink. from head-on battles with the existing leaders of the working class - whether these be left' talking Labourites union bureaucrats, or Stalinists of the Communist Party.

In these battles we set out to prove to workers both in theory and in practice the necessity for a new leadership and for a programme of transitional damands which, starting from today's problems and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers in struggle to grasp the need for socialist revolution.

For this reason, though we are smaller than some self-styled revolutionary' groups, the WSL has featured in the forefront of pay struggles in British Leyland, Socialist Loague.

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This method of approachrejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, and any form of concession to the counter-revolutionary reformist or Stalinist bureaucracy - is of course essential for the working class not only in Britain but internationally.

In taking up international issues the WSL points out not only the obligation of British workers to support: the Irish liberation struggle and revolutionary struggles such as those in Iran and Southern Africa, but also the necessity for the reconstruction . of the Trotskyist Fourth International as the org anising centre of the world party of socialist revolution.

The WSL is not the biggest movement on the left in Britain nor is it the easiest to be a member of. But in its approach to both theory and practice it is Sand 1o: WSL, 31, Dartmouth Park Hil London NW5 1HR Send to! S Dartmouth London N' the only really serious utionary movement.

When you look at the struggles now under way and the problems faced by the working class, the necessity for a principled leadership is unmis. takeable.

WHY NOT JOIN US? Fill in the form below for more details, or approach your local branch, who will gladly supply more information about our programme, policies, and, perspectives.

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Instead it was a series of liberal demands starting with an uncritical quotation from the UN Declaration of Human Rights, and ending with a call to support Amnesty International.

The SWSO, on the other hand, at least offered a class analysis of the nature of repression under capitalism -pointing out that repression of democratic rights is an integral and necessary part of capitalism.

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