Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

Out Now!

Socialist Press no. 35, 2 June 1976 · scan pp. 5–6 · about 166 words

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course make "negotiations" meaningless since it would give management the whip hand and sacrifice the strength of the strike. At the same time the proposal is to take a secret ballot on whether the workers want to join the union or not - as if the strike is not sufficient evidence!

The reactionary role of the union bureaucracy cmerges with great clarity on these basic issues of organisation and equal pay where victory is so clearly possible - and impeded only by the officials' preference to get along with the employers than defend the working class.

OPPRESSED

These strikes and struggles show clearly that women are not simply busy and concerned with "family affairs" as the bureaucratic union leaders would like to make out.

THE BATTLE FOR TROTSKYISM Two documents of the WRP opposition plus an iccount of the expulsions prepared by the Executive Committee of the Workers Socialist League.

Available from WSL, 31 Dartmouth Park Hill, London NW5 1HR. Price £1.20 (incl. P&P).

← Contents of Socialist Press no. 35, 2 June 1976