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A determined effort by our members and supporters together with a magnificent collection of £320 at the end of the WSL International Summer School means that we are able to announce that the £2,500 target in our Special The total now stands at £2573.60 with a further £200 in pledges still to be paid in. This means that we shall now proceed with the first of our scheduled publications in the next few weeks-a second edition of The Battle for Trotskyism which contains the opposition documents that the founding members of the WSL fought for within the Other publications scheduled for later this year include an account of the fight for Trotskyist leadership in the Leyland factories in Cowley and a new edition of the Meanwhile, readers and supporters are reminded that our monthly fund of f600 which has been raised throughout the period of the Special Fund is now open for contri31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 Oxford tote winners for the last four weeks were 19-ticket 108; 7, 29-ticket 330; 1, 13-ticket 073 Published by Folrose Ltd. for the Workers Socialist League, 31, Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. Fund has been reached on time. WRP prior to their expulsion in 1974.

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Printed by Anvi Printers Socialist Press Monthly Fund course, is the political practice of the Junta.

It was clearly necessary to expropriate Somoza's proertynot least because the masses had already begun to take over his extensive lands.

But existing property relations in -general have been steadfastly defended, and the Commander' of the FSLN southern front has recently announced that land reform will only be of "limited" character.

It is not sufficient to say, as does Socialist Challenge that "the pedigree" of the Junta "indicates that socialist measures are not very likely."

In a country like Nicaragua there is no basis for the establishment of a 'national' bourgeoisie independent of imperialism, capable of wide redistribution of wealth and the introduction of full democratic rights for the masses.

Deflect The bourgeoisie entered the struggle against Somoza to alter the rules of competition and to deflect the enormous spontaneous force of a mass uprising.

Hitherto it has been largely successful in this endeavour.

We do not look to the junta London NW5 evident in the liberated areas of tive measures.

Somocistas, a total break with workers' militias and soviets to Junta leader Ramires Mercado But while workers face plunging living standards and growing dole queues, there are some people who are well pleased with the Tories first two months in office.

The National Westminster bank has increased profits by a staggering 102%: and shareholders in major firms will cream off a f400 million dividends bonanza in the next few weeks as the Tories lift On the carcass of whole areas of the public services and of ruined weaker sections of private industry driven to the wall by the Tories' recessionary policies, the top' bankers and big monopolies know they can feed like vultures, and grow fat at the expense of the entire working class.

Only the most tenacious struggle by workers for strikes and occupations in defence of all jobs, and for a policy of opening the books of the capitalist and public sector employers to reveal the wholesale plunder planned by the Tories can show workers the alternative to: years of recession and unemployment-the struggle for mass action to bring down the Tory government and fight for a socialist, planned economy