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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 anc method of Trotsky's Transitional Programme is in no way a task cor.fined to Britain. It requires an attention and involvement in tre struggles of the working class internationally, and the fight to recor So there has been a consistent drive withir. ine /St o deeper and enrich the movemen:'s understanding of tra r.stc'y 5-= := Dresent crs.s ciene Fourn Internationa: as am essene carcie.alised" in a series of democratic organisations.

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The first to be established was the trade union movement, bureaucratically resuscitated after 10 years of dormancy.

Irade union committees were elected in all factories and work centres in 1971 and 1972.

The real democratic content of these committees varied from place to place.

But in some factories the trade union escaped the control of the local party and state bureaucracy, established a good deal of power and even had oppressive mapagements dismissed.

But any efforts to impose real elements of workers' management were firmly impeded by the bureaucuts.

workers in struggle can a way forward be found. the Labour Party.

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Page 4 SOCIALIST PRESS, Wednesday 14 September 1977 September Paul Johnson