Make 1972 a year of struggle against Tories

THE GREAT task facing the British working class in 1972 is to mobilize its full organized strength to make the Tory government resign and return a Labour government pledged to socialist policies.

The Central Committee of the Socialist Labour League will support to the tull -through the Workers Press and in every other way-all those workers thrown into struggle against this hated Tory government.

Millions of working-class families have had their living standards reduced by runaway price increases, and SLL CENTRAL COMMI SAMN the unemployed figure is now passing the million mark.

When the miners begin their strike next week and the engineers, power workers and railmen take their next steps for wage increases, they will be fighting the Tory government on behalf of every one of these workers' families.

Because it is a political question of defeating the government, the question of fighting to build an alternative leadership is raised most urgently.

The SLL Central Committee particularly welcomes he initiative of the Young Socialists' National Committee in organizing their 'Right-to-Work' i marches on London, beginning from Glasgow on February 5. We will give this campaign every support and we call on every section of the working-class movement to do likewise, because the unity of employed and unemployed is the most vital consideraThe Central Committee also welcomes enthusiastically the decision of the 1971 All Trades Unions Alliance Conference to issue the political manifesto aimed at the setting up of a revolutionary party in 1972.

We call on all readers and supporters to participate in discussion and amendment of this manifesto, in order to implement the resolution of 4,500 people at the February 14 Alexandra Palace rally last year, to transform the SLL into a revolutionary On the eve of going over to a 12-page tabloid Workers Press, the Central Committee extends its warmest thanks to all those supporters who have made this possible.

We know that many people inside and outside the ranks of the SLL, the All Trades Unions Alliance and the Young. Socialists have put in many hours of work and made great sacrifices to carry forward the Workers Press, and we will certainly be working might and main to justify this confidence.

We know that behind this success stand important changes in the working class itselt, and we are convinced that it is a decisive milestone towards realizing the task of transforming the SLL into a revolutionary party during 1972.

January 1, 1972