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revolutionary socialists are: Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trades union. offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalist Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting * To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive in character grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views. * To begin to fight for the creation of a unified and democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front tactics. begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands of workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed lavers of society black people, gays — struggling for their liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all isarv means tne power or ine capuaust stare opposition to GrOw wiuSes Or a onCa Darues noelTenEs Ce do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of "socialism' in the UISSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eves of the munons oi workers inrougnoul the woro. we are opposcd te them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democracs The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market, it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an international scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dietatorships they sustain in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist Parties in Europe are in crisis.
Euro-communist" nor the pro-Moscow wings have any meaningful strateoy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionsr E socialist parties are more necessary than ever before. Conditions todas are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties can ons he huat hy retectine secarianism ano seeme meraar ocmocraca nobas: luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and
Labour's betrayals:
"Liberal Alton sheds the candidate David building, crocodile tears Street, an- 10.30am. nounced at Plessey, at least 800 *Over people, but it is no more than a rights: vote catching exercise given the beatleted decide!', begins at Cine KaiTe Upper Liverpool school students' Two schools WeTC Thursday right to participate in politics."
*Over Britain's presence in David Alton, the Liberal candidate, has backed a call for withdrawal Alan Evans