Wsl Rally Greets New Weekly Paper
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League members and Socialist Press supporters gathered in London on Sunday to celebrate the 60th Anniversary of the Russian Revolution and to launch the first edition of the weekly paper.
Alan Thornett, outlining the momentous events leading up to October 1917 described it as "the greatest single achievement of the working class internationally".
"The only way that exploitation can be ended is by the ending of capitalism and the establishment of socialism, the establishment of the dictatorship of the proletariat".
John Lister, editor of 'Socialist Press' said it would have been difficult to choose a more important moment to go weekly with action by power workers, and the coming battles by miners and firemen and other major sections of workers.
He said that the role of the paper was part of the struggle to build a Trotskyist leadership in the working class.
"It is not enough to repeat 'magnificent miners out there on their picket line. It is the task of the paper to draw the lessons for the working class and to draw the best elements : in the struggle forward."