What Is the Workers Socialist League ?!

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The Workers Socialist League was formed on December 22nd 1974 as nationalisation under workers' management: all these policies are now part of the fight to carry forward the method and principles of Trotsky's called for in this situation. As they are fought for and workers are mobilised Transitional Programme, the founding document of the Fourth Internat- to win these demands, they begin to form a bridge between the present ional. The WSI now represents the continuity of the struggle for these level of political consciousness of workers and the need for the working elass to take the puwer. Yet the WRP refused to take up a fight for this The formation of the League League followed the expulsion of over 200 members from the Workers Revolutionary Party, carried out bureaucrat- For this reason the most important developments in our work have ically by the WRP leadership in order to prevent discussion of their own centred on a break from WRP sectarianism and propagandism, bringing abandonment of the Programme both in theory and in practice. These important gains in trade union work and opening up completely new areas. mass expulsions showed that there could be no hope of correcting the We are beginning to recruit and train from the new forces thrown into WRP - an independent organisation had to be founded to maintain the struggles in this period - not only trade unionists, but also professional workers, housewiyes, students and youth - in the fight to construct the Such a split came out of particular conditions. The rapid development of the economic crisis of capitalism and the forward movement of the Our record stres ta me sontinue to fight uncompromisingly to world working class, which has now overthrown imperialism in Vietnam expose li bose ato arack and revise Marxism - not only the WRP but and Cambodia, began to produce the conditions to build revolutionar. Lic the rei and fle policies of the IS group who refuse to defend the Soviet Lios as a workers' state, and the IMG, who liquidate the revolutAt such a point the importance of a fight for the method and propie. jonary morement into unprincipled blocs and liaisons with anti-revolutionof the Transitionad Programme, against both sectarianism and opportunism ay tendencies, as well as against Stalinism and reformism.

penoa. oI isolanon irom te mas movemenL IrOLSyE™ Lc» emago working class poses simuar questions ior inose groups calng temserves as the only tendency with a programme and a history of strugzie to lead Trotskyist, particularly sections of the International Committee of the Fourth International, producing similar splits and offering a rich possibility The defence of jobs through the fight for work sharing on ful pay, run of developing a truly international movement based on the Trotskyist by trade union committees; the defence of living standards through the programme. For this reason the WSL is now engaged in a process of interfight for all wage agreements to include a sliding scale to compensate for nal discussion prior to a full founding conference, a vital part of which is to all increases in the cost of living as determined by trade union prices hammer out and adopt perspectives for the building of the Trotskyist committees; the challenging of the "rights" of the employer and the Fourth International, and the development of revolutionary parties based preparation of the struggle for power through the fight to open the on the Trotskyist programme in every country in the struggle to end books of industry, and to establish workers control in the fight for principles in the workers' movement.

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An interview with the Secr Workers Vanguard, a Greek Ti group, by Tony Richardson tary of otskyist Athens.

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Already it is clear that throughout the world the movement of the is paramount in the preparation of revolutionary leadership. After a hard

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