[The Workers Socialist League was formed in Decembe…]
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The Workers Socialist League was formed in Decembe 1974 to struggle for the continuity of the principles of 'Trotskyism in Britain and towards the rebuilding of the In the daily struggle to take the demands and principles of Trotaky's transitional Programme into the trade unions, the SL has been at the forefront of the fight for the sliding scale of wages, and work sharing on full pay - demands which at the T&GWU Conference were the only alternative to Jones' treacherous £6 pay plan and the wholesale acceptIn the Health Service, WL comrades have led the struggle for the sliding scale of NHS spending and for trade union committees to open the books of the Authrrities, along with the fight to end all private practice - policies adopted by ASTMS National Conference.
In local disputes also, WL 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 At the same time we have put forward a policy to fight unemploy, ment, calling for unity of employed and unemployed through the fight The WSL is the 'only morement that fights consistently for transitional demands, going beyond mere trade union militancy to pose the pol 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's understanding of the history and the present crisis of the Fourth International, as an essential part of any serious We urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary leadership and the demands we put forward to find out more about the WSL response. I would League. Name. .
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ance of redundancies by the bureaucracy. to mobilise the trade union movement.
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Pose 1 at which they received long prison sentences, there were no protests by workers who a year earlier would have struck solidly at some arbitrary police • station. The anniversary of the 1905 march of workers to the Winter Palace went almost unnoticed.
The chaos of war strengthens the state power, which seems the only