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Workers Socialist Review (1981 – 1984)

Magazine of the Workers Socialist League



WSR 1

Workers Socialist Review
No. 1, December 1981

Magazine of the Workers Socialist League

[Formed by the fusion of the International-Communist League
and the old Workers Socialist League on July 26th, 1981].

Capitalist crisis and socialist alternative

Workers’ Socialist Review
Capitalist crisis and socialist alternative – Bob Sutcliffe




WSR 2

Workers Socialist Review
No. 2, September 1982

Magazine of the Workers Socialist League
Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

Falklands – Whose War?

EDITORIAL
The arithmetic of class struggle
Lebanon: with the PLO against IsraelResolution of the TILC
The struggle in Central AmericaResolution of the TILC

FALKLANDS / MALVINAS: WHOSE WAR?
Editorial
A war where workers could win nothing
Trotsky on war and revolutionary politics
Introduction: Learn to ThinkJackie Cleary
Learn to Think: a friendly suggestion to certain ultra-leftists
On the Sino-Japanese war: a letter to Diego Rivera
Polemic
The texts and the methodJackie Cleary
Background
Argentina and the world economyBob Sutcliffe
Polemic
Against neutrality, defend ArgentinaWSL minority tendency
TILC resolutions on Falklands / Malvinas

DOCUMENTS OF THE TILC
Martial law in Poland
South Africa: workers against apartheid
Mitterrand and the bourgeoisie




WSR 3

Workers Socialist Review
No. 3, April / May 1983

Published by the Workers Socialist League
Affiliated to the Trotskyist International Liaison Committee

Which way forward in the unions?

Unions central to Labour Party struggles
What happened to the steward’s movement?
Public sector under the auctioneers’ hammer
NHS: Lessons of ’82 key to coming struggles
We must organise the rank and file resistance! – an open letter to Socialist Workers’ Party supporters
When is a union not a union? The British labour movement and the Stalinist state ‘unions’
Workers’ politics and national liberation
From the arsenal of Marxism: Leon Trotsky on boom, crisis, and working class struggle
Communists go for ‘bishops and brickies’




WSR 4

Workers Socialist Review
No. 4, Autumn 1984

Published by the Workers Socialist League

Back the Miners! General Strike!

The failure of a fusion:
Documents on the expulsion of the Thornett group from the WSL


EDITORIAL
Back the Miners! General Strike!

The expulsion of the Thornett Group from the WSL: A selection of documents
Introduction: Failure of a Fusion
The National Committee’s ultimatum
The Thornett group’s response
The faction ‘dissolves’
The belated cry for unity
The expulsion resolution
‘Worker leadership’ or Marxist politics
The political differences summed up
Dispute on the TUC
The Thornett group’s case
Leninism and sectarianism

For a democratic solution to the communal conflict in Ireland
Afghanistan: USSR Troops Out!
Britain, Argentina: The Enemy at Home

Appendix: The Thornett Group’s Debut


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