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Socialist Press1979 1979-04-21Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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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 already coming into conflict with the restrictions placed upon it by its Islamic "leaders" serves as a vivid reminder that socialist revolution is not only possible, but essential it the apparatus of capitalist repression and exploitation is to be destroyed once and 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 alone are the movement that does not shrink from even head-on battles with the existing leaders of the working class - whether these 'leaders' be open right wingers, 'left' talking Labourites or Stalinists of the Communist 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 The strength of our movement 'lies precisely in rejection of any attempt to find "short cuts" around necessary fight to construct a Marxist leadership in In each struggle we set out to prove to workers both in theory and in practice the necessity of a new, revolutionary leadership and for a programme of transitional demands which, starting from today's problems and today's consciousness within the working class, lead for all. powerful lead to workers in struggle.
working class. the the inforr Name Address to Hill, Lond More details tion League, 31, Dartmouth on NW5 1HR ience of struggles London and Oxford.
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