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With workers by the thousand taking to the streets to oppose Tory policies there. is plainly no lack of militancy in the organised working class.
Yet the existing trade union bureaucrats and Labour leaders -whether right or 'left'-have no perspective to offer those workers prepared to fight in defence of jobs, living standards, social services and demo. cratic rights.
These can only be defended through policies which start from the independent interests of the working class, which, as an international class, has nothing to gain and everything to lose from attempts to restore the profitability of their "own" employing class.
In a period where the contraPlease send me more details of the Workers Socialist League.
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Address Send to: WSL 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR dictions of the anarchic capitalist system force the wholesale closure and destruction of the productive forces of society, only a socialist planned economy on a world scale offers a way forward.
To achieve such a perspective a leadership is needed which, in today's struggles fights to advance workers beyond trade union militancy, protest politics and illusions that capit. alism can be abolished through parliament.
The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist move. ment fighting day in and day out to build such a principled leadership in the working class in Britain and internationally.
We invite all readers of Socialist Press to seek more details of the WSL and its work and to join us in the struggle for socialism.
STILL AVAILABLE WSL MANIFESTO A basic statement of the policies of the League. Price 15p including postage fron WSL, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR