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Send me more details of the Workers Socialisı WSL Whichever way you look at the struaales and broblems now facing the working class world-wide, one thing stands out above all- the need for a principled leadership capable of leading the struggle for state power and the establishment of a socialist society.
• The Workers Socialist League is the only movement in •Britain that fights patiently and relentlessly to build such a party, on the basis of the Trotskyist Transitional Programme.
We alone are that does not shrink from even head-on battles with the existing leaders of the working crass - 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 NURNIKS inar 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 struggie 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 struggies, and in the fight against bureaucratic dictatorship within the unions.
Inis method of approach -rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy, and any form of concession to the counter-revolucionary reformist or Stalinist bureaucracy - is of course essential for the working class not only in Britain but : 19 Name Address Union/occupation: internationally In takina up international issues the WSL points out not only the obligation of British workers to support the Irish liberation struggle and revolut ionary 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 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 revor. utionary movement.
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