The Workers Socialist League

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The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation wing Labour and trade union leaders and the Communist In the daily struggle to take the demands and principles of Trotsky's Transitional Programme into the trade unions, the WSI has been at the forefront of the fight for the sliding scaie of wages, and work sharing on full pay - demands which at the 1975 T&GWU Conference were the pay cutting deal with Henley this demand for a sliding scale of wares (rising according to the raing cort of living as arsersed by trade union committeer) is the ossential basis of consistent opposition.

. In the Health Sorvice WL comrades have led the strugsle for a aliding 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 prectice. Perhaps inore important we have led the growing call for itrike action to defend the NHS against the cuts and to implement these policies, fighting those ike the ASTHS and NUPB lendership who substitute the words for the action, In London this poicy has already won a big response with the one-day action against the closure of the Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Hospital - when 2,000 hospital workers in the area struck and 400 marched to In local disputes also, WL comrades have tested and developed the demands of the Transitional Programme, putting forward in overy case forma of "workers' participation" have won mass responses.

At the same time we have. put forward a policy to fight une night to mobill the trade union molmed and unemployed through WSL is the only movement that fignte consistently transitional demands, going beyond mere trade union mintancy to pose In doing this our comrades have been forced also to lead struggles for trade union democracy against the bureaucratic manipulation of the But our struggle for the continuity of the principles of Trotskyism is in no way a task confined to Brital. It requires an attention and involvement in the international struggles of the working class and moves to So while many interventions in Britain have developed the League'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 Trotskyist Fourth internationa, as an essentiai part of any serious initiative towards its reconstruction.

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 lobby MPs against the cuts. the political issues to workers.

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OCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 17th A

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fighting to build a revolutionary leadership in the working class in opposition to the betrayals of both "left" and right