Workers News
1987-1997

We are concerned here with the Workers International League which, according to its Wikipedia entry, split from the Torrance-led WRP (Newsline) group in 1987.

The Encyclopedia of Trotskyism Online has a page here on the Leninist-Trotskyist Tendency, of which the WIL was the British affiliate.ltt-fi

We present a near complete run of the WIL’s paper Workers News which ran for 60 issues and was notable for its combination of agitational articles and movement reports with long theoretical, historical and polemical articles which ran over several issues- including Bob Pitt’s monumental series on the rise and fall of Gerry Healy in no fewer than 26 parts!

Additionally, the paper issued at least ten Theoretical Supplements, of which we present 8.

In a future post we will look at the pamphlets issued by the WIL, under its Prinkipo Press imprint, and also the magazine Workers Action which superseded Workers News.

If any reader should have a copy of Workers News 47 or 60 or the theoretical supplements 3 and 4, we invite them to get in touch!

These files were provided by Rob Madsen of the Red Mole Rising Project and the Splits & Fusion blog.

Contents by Issue

No. 1, Apr 1987
No. 2, May 1987
No. 3, Jul 1987
No. 4, Sep 1987
Richard Price The GPU Murder Machine in Spain
No. 5, Nov 1887
No. 6, Dec 1987
No. 7, Feb 1988
No. 8, Apr 1988
No. 9, May-Jun 1988
No. 10, Jul 1988
No. 11, Sep 1988
No. 12, Oct-Nov 1988
No. 13, Dec 1988
No. 14, Feb 1989
No. 15, Apr 1989
No. 16, May 1989
No. 17, Jun-Jul 1989
No. 18, Aug 1989
No. 19, Sep 1989
No. 20, Oct-Nov 1989
No. 21, Dec 1989
No. 22, Feb 1990
No. 23, Mar-Apr 1990
No. 24, May 1990
No. 25, Jul 1990
No. 26, Sep 1990
No. 27, Oct-Nov 1990
No. 28, Dec 1990 – Jan, 1991
No. 29, Feb 1991
No. 30, Apr 1991
No. 31, May-Jun 1991
No. 32, Jul 1991
Theoretical Supplement no1 July 1991
No. 33, Sep 1991
Theoretical Supplement no2 September 1991
No. 34, Oct-Nov 1991
No. 35, Dec 1991 – Jan 1992
No. 36, Feb 1992
Theoretical Supplement no5 February 1992
No. 37, Mar-Apr 1992
No. 38, May-Jun 1992
Theoretical Supplement no6 May June 1992
No. 39, Jul 1992
No. 40, Sep 1992
No. 41, Nov 1992
No. 42, Dec 1992 – Jan, 1993,
Theoretical Supplement no7 December 1992
No. 43, Feb 1993
No. 44, Mar-Apr 1993
Theoretical Supplement no8 March 1994
No. 45, Jun-Jul 1993
No. 46, Aug 1993
No. 48, Dec 1993 – Jan, 1994, 1993
No. 49, Mar-Apr 1994
No. 50, May-Jun 1994
No. 51, Aug-Sep 1994
No. 52, Nov-Dec 1994
Theoretical Supplement no9 November 1994
No. 53, Feb 1995
Theoretical Supplement no10 February 1995
No. 54, Jun-Jul 1995
No. 55, Aug-Sep 1995
No. 56, Mar-Apr 1996
No. 57, May-Jun 1996
No. 58, Oct-Nov 1996
No. 49, Apr-May 1997

Last updated on 14 February 2023