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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 toppied 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 if the apparatus of capitalist repression and exploitation is to be destroyed once and PRESS struggle against 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 LIlE working class internationally for the principles. method and demands of the Trotskyist Transitional Pro- wage control, cuts gramme. The Workers Socialist League has time and again proved to he 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 work- SPECIAL OFFER ing 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 WL 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.

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