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Wing leaders of the working class Such a policy has made us no friends in the trade union and Labour bureaucracy, but has consistently offered the most powerful lead to workers in struggle.
indeed. the strength of our movement lies precisely in our rejection of any attempt to find "short cuts" around the necessary fight to construct a Marxist leadership in the working class.
In these battles we set out to 1lall@Antl 2011 uruva lu nrnia tn wnrhare hath in thanri, and in practice the necessity for a new leadership and for a programme of transitional demands 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, in the fight against the sale of jobs by TUC leaders, in the struggle against the cuts, in unionisation struggles, and in the fight against bureaucratic dictatorship within the unions.
This method of approach -rejecting 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 gritain but More details Name .
Address Trade U internationally In takina 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 organising, centre of the worla 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 the only really, serious revolutionary movement.
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 por. spectives.
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