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Socialist Challenge No. 107, 2 August 1979 · p. 2 of the scan · 366 words

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Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitalist class.

Socialist Challenge believes thai the two vital lasks confronting • To build broad-based class struggle lendencies in opposition class-colleborationism in the labour movement. These should non-exclusive grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views. cation begin to unitied and creation democralic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through application of united front racers begin bossan an alternative thousands workers engaged in struggles.

Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for seeks lo unile the tieht ol workers with that of other oppressed layers of society — women, black people. gays struggling liberation. This socialism can only he achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with necessary means the power of the capilalist sale will infinitely mure democratic than 400E axis in brain Lucas d political parties and currents that arms against the 0 car socialist state. The stalinist models the LiSk and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eses of millions of workers throughout we are popus to hel offer tell support to all thost ligirting for socialist democrasy.

The intertits of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism has market. created politics. Thus we light 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 sustain in Latin America, and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediale Willema British troops from Ireland and fetting the Irish people determine their own future the lommans parties n -Europe are in crisis.

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page 2 Socialist Challenge 2 August 1979 warning against British military inyolvement

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