Workers Socialist League

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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 consisiently 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 knowledg: 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' parti upation' in industry. And we have strongly supported the Camr gn for Democracy in the Labour Movement, which has set out tr now the link between the reactionary policies of tha Social Contr .: and bureaucratic dictatorship in both the unions=-c But our practical struggle for the continuity of the principles a-c method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a task corfined to Britain. It requires an attention and involvement in the struggles of the working class internationally, and the fight to recor So there has been a consistent drive within the WL to deedsand enrich the movement's understanding of the history and :: present crisis of the Fourth International as an essentia par: s* - • We urge all readers who agree on the need for reid u: ership and the demands we put forvard to find out moteed to Soviet citizens.

But every one of them is undercut by other articles which enjoin the Soviet "citizen" to "strictly observe labour and production discipline" (Article 60-significantly no right to strike is granted); to "be intolerant of anti-social behaviour" ', and "to contribute in every way to the maintenance of public order." (No. 65).

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Indeed, Article 39 specifically states that "Exercise by citizens of rights and freedoms must not injure the interests of society and the state... "-a rider designed to allow the bureaucracy to take whatever action it wants against those who may protest their decisions. 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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