What Is the Worker! S 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 mobiTransitional Programme, the founding document of the Fourth Inter- lised to win these demands, they begin to form a bridge between the national. The WSL now represents the continuity of the struggle for these present level of political consciousness of workers and the need for the working class to take the power. Yet the WRP refused to take up a fight The formation of the League followed the expulsion of over 200 members from the Workers Revolutionary Party, carried out bureau- For this reason the most important developments in our work have cratically 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, housewives, 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 shows that we continue to fight uncompromisingly to world working class, which has now overthrown imperialism in Vietnam expose all those who attack and revise Marxism - not only the WRP but and Cambodia, began to produce the conditions to build revolutionary also the 'rank and file' policies of the IS group who refuse to defend the Soviet Union as a workers' state, and the IMG who liquidate the revoluAt such a point the importance of a fight for the method and principles tionary movement into unprincipled blocs and liaisons with antiof the Transitional Programme, against both sectarianism and opportunism revolutionary tendencies, as well as against Stalinism and reformism. is paramount in the preparation of revolutionary leadership. After a hard Already it is clear that throughout the world the movement of the period of isolation from the mass movement, Trotskyism now emerges working class poses similar questions for those groups calling themselves as the only tendency with a programme and a history of struggle 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 full 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 intertight for all wage agreements to include a suding scale to compensate Iot nal diconecion nrine in a full foundina confprance a vital nart of which ie to hammer out and adopt perspectives for the building of the Trotskyist all increases in the cost of living as determined by trade union prices 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 struggie to end ooks of industry, and to establish workers control in the fight for principles in the workers' movement.

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OPPOSES MARXIST METHOD Instead of this approach, we have predominating the sectarian conception condemned by Trotsky that "revolutionary events inevit'RESS, W 'anesday eptemb r 17th, 975 Healy leadership has found it impossible to cover the cloven hoof of the sectarian method which since

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