Workers Socialist League

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Socialist Press no. 194, 16 April 1980 · scan p. 12 · about 271 words

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A record collection of just ‚over £500 in cash to aid the development of our international work was taken at the recent WSL Conference. Together with the successful completion of the first half of our £3,000 fund the same weekend, and the raising, month by month of our regular Socialist Press Fund, this represents an enormous achieveBut now, more than ever, we cannot afford to our laurels. The more successful we are in taking fight to reconstruct the Fourth International, the So an immediate fight must be taken up to ri second half of our £3,000 Special Fund which v have completed by the TILC Summer School at

Militant

The steelworkers on the other hand have emerged still militant, but effectively leaderless, and facing an unprecedenattack on their jobs and working conditions.

Nothing is resolved. But the most urgent question of all is the construction in the steel unions and throughout the workers movement of a leadership that starts not from the search for "reforms" within the system, not from conceding the employers' "right" to extract profits but from the necessity to defend the independent interests of the working classthrough mass action to defeat the Tories and their Labour and TUC lackeys, and establish a workers government to create a planned, socialist economy.

The Workers Socialist League is fighting to construct precisely such a revolutionary ment for a movement of our size.

our financial commitments become.

of July. The current total is £1539.85.

All donations should be sent to:

Socialist Press Special Fund rest on up the heavier Raise the ve must the end Box 5277, London WC1V 6XX

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 194, 16 April 1980