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that does not shrink from even head-on batties with the existing leaders of the working class - whether these be open right wingers, 'left' talking Labourites or Stalinists of the Communist 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 prove to workers both in. theory 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 pgainst the cuts, in unionisation struggles, and in the fight against bureaucratic dictatorship within the unions.

? his 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 Britain but Name . i Address Trade Un ion, 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 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 the only really, serious revolutionary movement.

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This produced a two to one majority against strike action.

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