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Socialist Press1980 1980-03-12Read 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 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 contra. 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 Please send me more details of the Workers Socialist League.
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Addres Sena to: WSL,. i21 to advance workers. beyond trade union militancy, protest politics and illusions that capitalism can be abolished through parliament.
The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist movement fighting day in and day out to build such a principled leadership in the working class in Britain.
Internationally. we are affiliated 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.
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