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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 betwen 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 In the last week the • SLF claims to have captured Jijiga. Also Ethiopia's only rail link with the sea through Djibouti has been cut for several months.

And in Eritrea the liberation forces control the majority of the country and have for months been at the gates, or even inside the gates of its capital Asmara.

Inside Ethiopia itself the Derg is under attack both from the rightwing Ethiopian Démocratic Union, which represents an alliance of capitalist and deposed feudal interests, and from the popular forces (the working class, peasantry cuts. and students) who are partly organised in parties such as the "Marxist-Leninist" Ethiopian People's Revolutionary Party.

workers in struggle can a way forward be found.

Like the Popular Liberation Front in Eritrea this party adopts a rigid Stalinist two-stage (democratic followed by socialist) concept of the revolution.

Trotskyists must tight everywhere in the labour movement tor principled support to the mass opposition to the Ethiopian Derg's bloody and repressive policies and for material solidarity with the national liberation struggle in the Labour Party.

And the increasing desperation of the threatened Derg shows the urgent need for the building of revolutionary Trotskyist parties in struct the Trotskyist Fourth International. Eritrea, Ethiopia and Somalia which • can give leadership to the struggles and fight against political compromise either with the imper- initiative towards its reconstruction. ialists or with fake "progressive" forces like the Somali junta or the Derg.

WSL and join our fight in the Labour movement.