C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in he tres. not ol the workers but of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary settallslo art.
• To huild broad-based class struggle lendencies in opposition class collaboranomsm u ut labour movement. These should non-exclusive in character. grouping together militants hold. ing a wide range of political views.
• To begin to fight for the creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through application of united front tactics, begin thousands an thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for seeks to unile the fight of workers with that of other oppressed layers of society — women, black people, faeration. This socialism can only struggling be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
• Our socialism wil! infinitely more democratic loday, with full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models USSR and Fastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the world. He are opposed to them and will offer full support to fighting for socialist democracy.
& 5n4 word cate. Capitalian, The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism has not only created a market, itmas created politics. Thus we fight for working class unity scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate British troops from letting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis. Neither the 'Kurocommunist' the pro-Moscow wings have any meaningtul strategy overthrow of the capitalist state.
renditions necessary than today more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties can only rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as a luxury hut as a vital necessity. the right to organise factions and tendencies.
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