Workers Socialist League

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

Corkers Socialist League

Socialist Press no. 54, 2 March 1977 · scan pp. 3–4 · about 343 words

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The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation fightin to build a revolutionary leadership in. the working class to lead th attempt to enforce wage control, sackings, speed-up and public servic As workers take up the struggle against these policies they ar forced by the sheer weight of forces opposing them to confron political questions. Only with an understanding of the role of th labour bureaucracy and a programme to unite the broadest sections o The Workers Socialist League is the only movement that sets ou to do this, fighting consistently in the working class for transitiona demands, which go beyond simply trade union militancy to rais 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 hare been at the forefront of struggles against thr cals. against rape control, for unionisation, and against redundancy we hare done more toza any other tendency to fight the introduction of 'Torkas participation' in industry. And we have strongly supr orted the Cempaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement, whid has set out to show the link between the reactionary policies of the Social Contract and bureaucratic dictatorship in both the unions and But our practical struggle for the continuity of the principles sad method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a teak con fined to Britain. It requires an attention and inroirement • to struggles of the working class internationally, and the fięhs to recon So there has been a consistent drive within the WSL to deeper and enrich the movement's understanding of the history zad th present crisis of thr Fowth International as an essential part of on We urge all readers who agree on the need for remolutionar? lead ership and the demands we put forward to find out more about th 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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← Contents of Socialist Press no. 54, 2 March 1977