Workers Socialist League

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

Trotskyism Today

The League's theoretical publication: first a four-page pull-out supplement to Socialist Press (13 issues, November 1975 to February 1977), then a magazine (4 issues, July 1977 to January 1979).

The supplement, 1975–1977

No. 1
12 November 1975
Fourth International: Problems and Tasks (Part One)
No. 2
26 November 1975
Fourth International: Problems and Tasks (Part Two)
No. 3
10 December 1975
Fourth International: Problems and Tasks (Part Three)
No. 4
14 January 1976
James P. Cannon 1890-1974: In Defence of a Great Revolutionary (Part One) — Tim Wohlforth
No. 5
11 February 1976
James P. Cannon 1890-1974: In Defence of a Great Revolutionary (Part Two) — Tim Wohlforth
No. 6
10 March 1976
The Post-War Reconstruction of Capitalism
No. 7
21 April 1976
Special May Day edition. On the 50th anniversary: The General Strike and Today
No. 8
11 August 1976
The Significance of the Transitional Programme — John Lister
No. 9
3 November 1976
Political Revolution 1956 — Adam Westoby
An Old Bolshevik resigns (open letter of Arnošt Kolman)
No. 10
5 January 1977
The Fight for Revolutionary Leadership (Parts One and Two)
No. 11
19 January 1977
The Fight for Revolutionary Leadership (Part Two continued, Three and Four)
No. 12
2 February 1977
The Fight for Revolutionary Leadership (Parts Five, Six and Seven)
No. 13
16 February 1977
Perspectives for Work among Women

The magazine, 1977–1979

No. 1
July 1977
Regain and Defend Living Standards (WSL National Committee statement) p.3
What Are the Lessons of Cuba? p.5
Organisation and Politics (in reply to the IMG 'Faction and Party' series) p.9
Leyland: Passport to International Repression p.14
Propagandism and the Fight for Women's Rights p.16
Left in the Limelight p.25
No. 2
March 1978
Revolution, Counter-Revolution and Stalinism in Bulgaria p.4
Aspects of the History of the Fourth International (edited transcript of a lecture to the WSL Summer School, July 1977) p.7
Review: Socialist Feminism versus Marxism p.23
Review: Political Lessons from Unionisation Fights p.25
British Trotskyists and the Class Struggle in World War 2 p.27
Left in the Limelight: Moves for a Labor Party p.31
Spectators from Afar p.32
Dead End for Centrist 'Internationals' p.33
No Answer to Their Own Question p.35
Fighting the New McCarthyism p.35
No. 3
July 1978
Editorial: Sack Callaghan p.1
In Defence of Working Class Political Independence (British Perspectives resolution, WSL Second Annual Conference) p.4
The Poisoned Well (document for the USFI XIth World Congress discussion, adopted by the WSL Second Annual Conference) p.20
The Spartacist School of Invention p.30
Turkey: The Background to Today's Crisis (report endorsed by the WSL Second Annual Conference) p.36
Left in the Limelight: State Caps Expose Spartacist Chauvinism p.40
WRP Turns to Women's Liberation - in Iraq! p.43
Spanish Groups Call for General Strike p.44
No. 4
January 1979
The Significance of the Transitional Programme (reprinted from no. 8 of the supplement) — John Lister
Iran: Book Review p.8
Mandel's Dance with Stalinism p.11
Forty Years On: A Look at the Practice of the US SWP p.22
Left in the Limelight p.29
Iran Workers Call for Communism p.29
Together Down the Dead-End Road to 'Unity' p.30