Workers Socialist League

Socialist Press, Trotskyism Today and the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee, 1975–1984

The Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

The international tendency the Workers Socialist League founded at the end of 1979 with co-thinkers in Italy, Denmark, the USA and Turkey. Below are its resolutions and statements as the League published them. Each links to the page of the paper it was printed on, or to a transcription.

Before the founding, 1979

From the League's international summer school of July 1979, before the Committee was formed: a joint appeal of the WSL and groups that went on to found it, and a resolution of the school.

29 July 1979Campaign: Don't let Turkey become another Chile!
Socialist Press no. 161 (8 Aug 1979), p. 9
29 July 1979Iran: free socialist prisoners!
Socialist Press no. 161 (8 Aug 1979), p. 9

In Socialist Press, 1979–1981

Read on the scans. Links go to the issue, at the page.

31 December 1979Declaration of Intent
Socialist Press no. 182 (16 Jan 1980), p. 6
31 December 1979Fighting for a workers' government: The Workers' Government demand
Socialist Press no. 183 (23 Jan 1980), p. 8; reprinted in Socialist Press no. 207 (16 Jul 1980), p. 7
February 1980Afghanistan and the Fourth International
Socialist Press no. 186 (13 Feb 1980), p. 9
8 April 1980TILC Resolution on Parity Commission
Socialist Press no. 194 (16 Apr 1980), p. 3
July 1980Defeat Turkish state repression!
Socialist Press no. 208 (30 Jul 1980), p. 3
October 1980Turkey's Sept. 12 Junta: a bonapartist stopgap
Socialist Press no. 219 (15 Oct 1980), p. 2
Issued by the Turkish organisation in sympathy with the Committee, not by the Committee itself.
27 October 1980Defend Bolivian masses!
Socialist Press no. 222 (12 Nov 1980), p. 8
December 1980Solidarity with Polish workers!
Socialist Press no. 229 (7 Jan 1981), p. 2
December 1980Save these victims of apartheid terror!
Socialist Press no. 229 (7 Jan 1981), p. 3
29 March 1981El Salvador: Break from capitalist politicians!
Socialist Press no. 242 (9 Apr 1981), p. 6–7

In Workers Socialist Review, 1981–1982

Printed in the fused League's magazine, no. 2 (September 1982). The scans are not online; the links go to the transcriptions at the Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line.

December 1981The struggle in Central America
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
December 1981Martial law in Poland
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
December 1981South Africa: workers against apartheid
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
December 1981Mitterrand and the bourgeoisie
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
12 April 1982TILC Resolutions April 1982 [Falklands/Malvinas]
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
2 August 1982[Malvinas war: resolution proposed by RWL]
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
2 August 1982[Malvinas war: resolution proposed by TAF]
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)
2 August 1982Lebanon: with the PLO against Israel
Workers Socialist Review no. 2 (Sept 1982) · transcription at ETOL (not checked against a scan)