Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trudes unions offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers. but of the Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are: * To build broad-based class struggle tendencies In opposition to class-cellborationiem in the lahour movement, Theseshould be non-exclusive la charntter grouping together militants holding a wide runge * To begin to fight for the creation of a anified and democratic revolutionary socialist organissdon which can, through un application of enited front tactics, hegin to be seem as an alternative by thoesands of workers engaged in strnggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The strugele for socialism seeks to unile Th that of other oppressed ingers of society -мотеа, пяся peopic, gay» Iberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating wils the struggling for their all necessary means the power of the capitalise Tote Than what el he is hiti tote de muc Our socialism will he infinitely more democ full rights for all political parties and currents The Stalinist models of socialism' in the USSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialisen in exes of millions of workers throughout the world. We are opposed to the and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist demorcreated world politics. Thus we fight for working class unily on an international scale. This unity will in the long run be declive in defeating both the and Asia. imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, Africa In Britain it implies demanding the Immediute withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish prople determine their own fulure.
The Communist Parties in Europe ure in crisis. Neither the "Eurocommunist nor the pro-Moscow wings hure any meaningful strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist stude Sew revolutionary sncialist parties ure more secesary than ever before. Conditions today ure more favourable than over the preceding Ibree decades But such parties can only be built be rejecting sectarianism and secing internul demucracy not as • luxury but us a sital necessity. This means the right to urguaise fuctions and tendencies.