The Workers Socialist League
Socialist Press1976 1976-06-16Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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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 foretront of the fight for the sliding scale of wages, and work sharing on full pay - demands which at the 1975 I&GWU Conference were the only alternative to Jones' £6 pay plan and the wholesale acceptance of redundancies by the bureaucracy. In today's fight against the TUC's 412% pay cutting proposals this derand for a sliding scale of wages (rising according to the rising cost of living as assessed by trade union committees) is the essential basis of consistent opposition.
In the Health Service WL comrades have led the struggle for a sliding scale of NHS spending, for the start of workers' control of the service (beginning with opening the books of the Health Authorities), along with the fight to end all private practice. Perhaps more important we have led the growing call for strike action to defend the NHS against the cuts and to implement these policies, fighting those like the ASTMS leadership In local disputes also, Su 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 WSL is the only movement that fights consistently for transitional demands, going beyond mere trade union militancy to pose I doing his our somrades have been forced also to lead struggles for 2=07 zais the bureaucratic manipulation of the Trotsity: Inside Prize be do see a consident IT C Present Fire lease is i spenda pee:= Fourth International. who substitute the words for the action.
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SEE 7E:03 Wade serenes clean-up before the election, and that the black sheep' must be identified and dealt with.
The only information about the scandal which has surfaced in the Japanese press is that which was made public in the US during the Lockheed hearings.
Official investigators also rely on Us information. No arrests have been made, but the role of leading politicians is widely recognised.
Top of the list of 'highly placed' persons is the militarist Mr. Kodama,. leader of the extreme right-wing in Japan.
His part in the distribution ol orbes is well known, yet so tar he has escaped arrest because of 'health reasons'.
Whichever way the struggle over Miki's proposals to bring the Lockheed scandal into the open goes, the right wing party's election prospects must be severely damaged.
THE BATTLE FOR TROTSKYISM Two documents of the WRP opposition plus an account of the expulsion:
prepared by the Executive Committee of the Honkers Socialist League Arzitabde from A SL. 31.
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ITAIN sueS. issues issues rejected him because of the doubts of important sections of the armed Azevedo declared his candidacy anyway, in order "to prevent a one-man contest" , but does not have the support of any party.
His political line does not differ seriously from that of Eanes, except that Azevedo is a bit more open in his support for American imperialism, saying that the Communist Party will be kept out of the government "as long as the United States wants it that way"
Eanes has returned Soares' favours, intimating that he would support the minority Socialist Party government that Soares intends to form.
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NO ANSWER None of the candidates provide any answer to the central questio of an independent working clas leadership based on the organs o workers' power.
The demand must be for th Socialist Party and Communis Party, which together commande a majority in the parliamentar lections, to break from the Armer Forces Movement and form . workers government based on th workers' committees.
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