WSL: we offer a lead
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Whichever way you look at the struggles and problems now facing the working class throughout the world, one thing stands out above all: the necessity for a principled leadership capable of leading the struggle for state. power and the establishment of a socialist society.
The massive revolutionary upheaval that has now toppled the seemingly impregnable might of the Shah of Iran and which is now by its Islamic "leaders" serves as a vivid reminder that socialist But such a revolution requires a conscious Marxist leadership.
And the fight to construct such a leadership is inseparable from the fight in the day to-day struggles of the working class internationally for the principles. method and demands of the Trotskyist Transitional Programme. The Workers Socialist League has time and again proved to be the only movement in Britain that fights patiently and relentlessly on such a perspective.
We alore are the movement that does not even head-on battles with the existing leaders of the _ whether these 'leaders' be open right wingers, Labourites or Stalinists of the Communist Party. Of course this policy has made us no friends in the trade union and Labour bureaucracy, or amongst the opportunists and centrists of the British 'left'. But it has meant that the WSL has consistently offered the most powerful lead to workers in struggle. theory and in practice the necessity of a new revolutionary starting from today's problems and today's consciousness within the working class, lead workers in struggle to grasp the need for This is why the WSL has featured at the forefront of pay struggles in British Leyland and the public sector, in the fight against redundancies and closures, in struggles against the cuts, unionisation fights, and the fight for democracy in the labour This method of approach - rejecting any descent to simple trade union militancy or concession to the labour bureaucracy - is PRESS struggle against of course essentiak not only in Britain but internationally. In taking up international issues in the labour movement the WSL stresses 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 wage control, cuts organising centre of the world party of socialist revolution.
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