This bulletin contains documents from two disputes in the Workers' Socialist League in 1983, in the period leading up to the final break between a group round Alan Thornett and the WSL majority whose political continuation today is the AWL.
There is also briefer information about some other disputes in that period.
The two disputes documented in more detail are:
1. About the shooting-down of a Korean Airlines commercial passenger jet by the USSR airforce in September 1983. The argument was about whether to condemn this unequivocally (while also opposing the use of the incident to build up chauvinism and militarism); or to place stress on the unsubstantiated possibility that the Korean Airlines plane was a US spy plane in commercial disguise.
2. About the witch-hunt in which a number of socialists were sacked from the Cowley car factory in August 1983. The dispute was about whether this could be accurately seen as central to a general "massive witch-hunt against socialists in industry".
One page of the original bulletin (the end of the introduction) seems to be missing.
