[The Workers Socialist League was formed in December…]
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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 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 f6 pay plan and the wholesale acceptIn the. Health Service, 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.
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 At the same time we have put forward a policy to fight unemployment, 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 leaderresponse.
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robbery by the banks. It would be enough to arrest them for a few weeks to expose their frauds and show all exploited people "who needs the war" . Upon exposing the frauds of the baking barons, we could release them, placing the