What Is the Workers Socialist League?

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The Workers Socialist League was formed 1974 to struggle for the continuity of the Trotskyism in Britain and towards the rebuilding This has gone alongside the development in the International Pages of Socialist Press of programme and perspectives on a whole range of international struggles against imperialism, in which again the method and the principles of the Transitional Programme are an essential starting point, and on many of which no other movement puts forward any In the daily struggle to take the demands and principles of Trotsky's Transitional Programme into the trade unions, the WSL has been at the We urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary forefront of the fight for the sliding scale of wages, and work sharing leadership, and the demands we put forward to find out more about the on full pay - demands which at the T&GWU Conference were the only WSL and join our fight in thé labour movement. Simply fill in the alternative to Jones' treacherous £6 pay plan and the wholesale acceptance In the Health Serviee, WSL comrades have led the struggle for the sliding scale of NHS spending and for trade union committees to open the books of the Authorities, along with the fight to end all private practice -policies adopted by ASTMS National Conference. COMPLETE and SEND to: 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 In local disputes also, WSL comrades have tested and developed the demands of the Transitional Programme, putting forward in every case the only real opposition to the Stalinists and the right-wing. Our struggle for the "open the books" demand in the motor industry has won a mass response. The WSL alone among the groups on the left has fought the speed-up proposals of the Ryder Report since its very publication, and we have leafletted almost every major BLMC plant in the only national sialist Press Subscriptions At the same time we have put forward a policy to fight unemploy. ment, calling for unity of employed and anemployed through the fight to moblise the trade union movement, and following this iniative, the first Trades Council sub-committee to fight for these policies has already On every issue facing workers today the WSL is the only movement that fights consistently for transitional demands, going beyond mere trade union militancy to pose the political issues to workers.

While these practical interventions have developed the League's grasp of Trotsky's Programme there has been a consistent drive to deepen and enrich the movement understanding of the history and the present Since then our work in the mass develop into an expanding organisation (especially in the Midlands and the trade union base.

of redundancies by the bureaucracy. campaign against its implementation.

been established in Banbury.

in December principles of of the Fourth movement has seen the League with important new areas of work North West), and an enlarged iniative towards its reconstruction.

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industry continued to fall. 206,000 in 1950, it had fallen to 166,000 by 1973.

10th, hostility to the 'fur coated' brigade that ran official unionism.

On occasions this took him:and