Workers Socialist League
Socialist Press1977 1977-07-20Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 10 →
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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 as 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 coni red 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 = enrich the movement's understanding of the history and the present crisis of the Fourth International as an essentiat part of our Site urge all readers who agree on the need for revolutionary lead=a c 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.
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In the past Islington has seen massive working class mobilisation, including the Stalinists, against the National Front. Now it must be forced to carry out this enquiry and fight on policies to improve the whele position of blacks.
in this way also unemployed and alienated youth can be brought into class struggle to fight l on a programme of demands which show the way to the socialist solution to their problems.
Much needed donations to, and information from: Islington Defence Committee, 161, Hornsey Road, London N7.