Wilat 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' called for in this situation. As they are fought for and workers are mobilised iransitional Programme, the founding document of the Fourth Internat to win these demands, they begin to form a bridge between the present ional. The WSL 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 & fight for this The formation of the 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, 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 alsa 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 revolutAt such a point the importance of a fight for the method and principles ionary movement into unprincipled blocs and liaisons with anti-revolutionof the Transitional Programme, against both sectarianism and opportunism ary 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 interfight for all wage agreements to include a sliding scale to compensate fo nal discussion prior to a full founding conference, a vital part of which is to principles in the workers' movement.

fight for Trotskyism.

parties internationally.

the working class in the taking of power. method.

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of the South" ordered the disarming of all other organisations. The decree declared: "all those who call the people to arms and above all to struggle against the Allies will be considered as provocateurs and saboteurs"

By (or just before September 12th the Stalinists welcomed General Gracey and the first detachments of British and Indian troops. On the same day (or the 14th, according to some sources) the Stalinists carried out the main police