The Workers Socialist League
Socialist Press1976 1976-07-28Read 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 transirionai trogramme into the trade unions, the WSL has been at the forefront of the fight for the sliding scale of wages, and work sharing on full pay - demands which at the 1975 T&GWU Conference were the only alternative to Jones' 16 pay plan and the wholesale acceptance of redundancies by the bureaucracy. In today's fight against the TUC's 4% pay cutting proposals this demand for a sliding scale of wages (rising according to the rising cost of living as assessed by trade union committees) is the essentiai basis of consistent opposition.
In the Health Service WS 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, figliting those like the ASTMS leadership In local disputes also, WL comrades have tested and developed thie 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 In doing this our comrades have been forced also to lead struggles for trade • union democracy against the bureaucratic manipulation of the While these interventions have developed the Leagues's grasp of Trotsky's Transitional 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 Interationa, 8s an essentia part of any We urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary leadership and the demands we put forward to find out more about the WL and Fourth International. who substitute the words for the action.
response.
the fight to mobilise the trade union movement.
the political issues to workers.
Stalinists and right-wing.
serious initiative towards its reconstruction.
join our fight in the labour movement. "reformist' camouflage in order to entice the working class within range. Yet they • are unable to disguise the fact that they cannot allow their reforms to have any real content.
So they hint at permitting the right to strike, knowing that they must fight mercilessiy to prevent its being used.