C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions orter solutions inal are in the interests not of the workers hut of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that two vial tasks confronting revolutionary socialists arc:
• To build broad-based class struggle lendencies in opposition to class-collaborationism in the lahour movement. These should non-exclusive grouping together militants holding a wide range of portlical vitas.
• To begin lo fight for the creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can.
application united front tactics, hegin to be seen as alternative hy thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of workers with that of other oppressed layers women, black people, gays struggling for Sheration. This socialism can on s beachieved by creating new organs • power aro delealing *l al necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
Our socialism will
infinitely more democratic • than what exists in Britain today. Tu rients for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models Moralism' in the LSSR and Fastern turope have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers rods out ute We are opposed to them and will offer tuli support to ail lighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of workers and on a norio scale. capitalist nol _created a market. it has created politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an scale, this units will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships sustain in latin America, Africa and Asia.
l immediate pies dramand ni immediate withdrawal British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their uwn future.
The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis. Seither Haroconmunist the pro-Masern wings hase any meaninglul strategy for arerthrow of the capitaliss sale. den resolationars voridisd parties than 1l l HIT I L betore. Tralitions more lavirable Thans preceding three decades. Bad such parties Can built referding sectarianism and seeing ailernaddemocrars nod as a losury but as a sital necessit. This ancans the racht do creamise lackons and I son agree with these principtes and he involveel indisities bes Socialist ( ballenge torms belo and send it do ers.
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