[The Workers Socialist League is a Trotskyist organisation…]

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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 organisation 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 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 WSL to deepen and enrich the movement's understanding of the history and the present crisis of the 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 lysed the country and almos brought down the government i November 1976 have won wag increases of 124 Crowns (£12) pe week, whereas other workers in th same union only got between twi and eight Crowns (20p-80p) pe week more.

The conflict at the Berlingsk newspaper concern continues.

The management is receivin help from the Employers Associ tion and from the Labour Cour which has fined the union twic and the strikers once because the refuse to start work with an agret ment they haven't accepted.

Solidarity and financial suppor is pouring in, and the striker are publishing their own alternativ paper in an edition of 200,00 copies to inform workers about th struggle against "pirate-setting" b advertising agencies, and othe attempts to undermine the typo graphic and lithographic trades An international boycott has si far stopped the Berlingske concen getting their magazines and paper printed in other countries.

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SOCIALIST PRESS. Wednesday 30 March 1977 Anderson hospital had been achieved by fighting for an under-