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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 reconWe urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary leadership and the demands we put forward to find out more about the Left wing movements have too often dismissed the important and painstaking task of building working class organisations, and have been particularly scornful of what they term economistic' demands.

LIP SERVICE

And while paying lip service to the importance of organising the peasantry, left wing parties have done little in this sphere and failed totally to link the demands of the poor peasants and landless with those of the urban masses.

The result has been that the rural poor lie dormant as the urban movement is left leaderless and isolated.

FOOTNOTE.

Bhutto has been forced to make concessions to the right wing demands of the PNA leadership.

He has introduced various sections of the traditional Islamic Law, outlawing alcohol and gambling. And he has started to hand nationalised property back to its old owners.

He has, of course, done nothing for the working class which is why he is losing more support every day.

He has now firmly rejected the PNA demand for his resignation followed by new elections; and they have rejected his offer of a referendum on whether or not he should resign.

The crisis shows no signs of abating. Huge anti-Bhútto demonstrations are continuing and on May 20 a further 6 demonstrators were chot dead hu camuritu forrac cuts.

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ge :ESS, Wednesday 25 May, 1977