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The Workers Socialist League was formed in December 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 Trotsky's Iransitional Programme into the trade unions, the WSI has been at the forefront of the light 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, WSt comrades have led the struggle lot 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.

In local disputes also, WSI comtades 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 movement that fights consistently for transitional demands, going beyond mere trade union militancy to pose the polWhile 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 forwara to lind out more about the WSL response. I would League. Name.. Address COMPLET THE Fourth International.

ance of redundancies by the bureaucracy. to mobilise the trade union movement.

itical issues to workers.

initiative towards its reconstruction.

and join our fight in the labour movement.

MORE INFORMATION more information on the 31 Nort Socialist don NWS 1HR powerful section of the Spanish bourgeoisie (including sections of the present regime) and is part of the strategy of the EEC and the United States' In other words, the Spanish Communist Party defines the tasks of the working class by reference to what is aimed at and permitted by the bourgeoisie! are to be found the monarchist Carlist Party, several Social Democratic groups; several right wing nationalist groups such as the Basque Nationalist Party, the centrist group, the Revolutionary Workers' Organisation (the ORT, with complex origins partly among left Catholics) and the General Workers Union (UGT) which working class united front tr prepare coordinated action to fora the downfall of the regime and th establishment of a workers' gover ment.

By a Special Correspondent in Spain.