Workers Socialist League
Socialist Press1977 1977-02-02Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 3 →
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The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fighting to build a revolutionary leadership in. the working class to lead the mounting opposition to the betrayals of both 'left' and right wing Labour and trade union leaders and the Communist party, as they attempt to enforce wage control, sackings, speed-up and public service As workers take up the struggle against these policies they are forced by the sheer weight of forces opposing them to confront political questions. Only with an understanding of the role of the labour bureaucracy and a programme to unite the broadest sections of The Workers Socialist League is the only movement that sets out to do this, fighting consistently in the working class for transitional demands, which go beyond simply trade union militancy to raise the political questions to workers and prepare the forms of organis ation and the knowledge necessary for the struggle for socialism.
As a result we have been at the forefront of struggles against the cuts, against wage control, for unionisation, and against redundancy. We have done more than any other tendeney to fight the introduction of 'workers' participation' in industry. And we have strongly supp orted the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement, which has set out to show the link between the reactionary policies of toe Social Contract and bureaucratic dictatorship in both the unions sed But our practical struggle for the continuity of the principles ad method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a task com fined to Britain. It requires an attention and involvement in dbe struggles of the working class internationally, and the fight to recoe So there has been a consistent drive within the WSL to deeper and enrich the movement's understanding of the history and de present crisis of the Fourth International as an essential part ai en We urge all readers who agree on the need for retolutioner! lead ership and the demands we put forward to find our more abour du cuts.
workers in struggle can a way forward be found. the Labour Party.
struct the Trotskyist Fourth International.
initiative towards its reconstruction.
WSL and join our fight in the Labour morement.
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PRESS * 'LEFTS' BETRAY JOBS TO "SAVE LABOUR