Workers Socialist League
Socialist Press1977 1977-03-16Read 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.
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We have done more than any other tendency to fight the introduction of 'workers" participation' in industry. And we have strongly supported the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement, which 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 and method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a task confined to Britain. It requires an attention and involvement in the struggles of the working class internationally, and the fight to reconSo there has been a consistent drive within the WS to deepen and enrich the movement's understanding of the history and the present crisis of thr Fourth International as an essential part of our We urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary leadership and the demands we put forward to find out more about the cuts.
workers in struggle can a way forward be found. the Labour Party.
struct the Trotskyist Fourth International.
initiative towards its reconstruction.
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age 4 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 16th March 1977 It is one thing to demand wages be brought up to the level of the The toolroom workers should take their lesson of trade union