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Socialist Press1980 1980-01-23Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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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 stan. dards, social services and democratic 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 restoré the profitability of their "own" employing class. i In a period where the contradictions 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 perspecLa leadership needed end me ore details of the Workers arki Socialist Send to: WSL 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR which, in today's struggles fights to advance workers beyond trade union militancy, protast politics and illusions that capitalisnt can be abolished through parliament. sque is & Trotskyist move. ment fighting day in and day out to build such a principled leadership in the working class in Britain Internationally, we are attiliated to the newly-formed Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, which fights for the reconstruction of the Fourth International and the building of revolutionary parties in every country to lead the struggle against imperialism and against the parasitic Stalinist bureaucracies in the deformed and degenerated workers' states.
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.
Monthly paper of the Socialist Youth League New issue out next week Articles on NUSS Week of Action; Antifascist activity in Leicester; Iran; Afghanistan; Review of new Clash album; steel strike.
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• SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 23 January 1980
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