Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests of the workers hut of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital lasks contronine revolntionary socialasts are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition in class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.
• To begin to fight for the unified democratic revolutionary socialist "ganisation which can.
application of tactics. begin in he thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for secks in unite the fight of workers against the with that of other oppressed layers women, black people, gays struggling for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs ot power and defeating with ail necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
Our socialism infinitely more democratic than what exists in Britain indas. with full rights for political parties and currents that do not lake up arms against the sncialist state. The Stalinist models of "socialism' in the USSR and Fastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of We are opposed to them and will workers throughout the after fuli support to all those lighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has created a market, it has created politics. Thus we fight for working class unify scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating both she imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, and Asia. * immediate pies drawling immediate withdrawal British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own tuture.
The Communist parties in Kurope are in crisis. Neither ' Eurocommunist' the pro-Moscon wings have any meaninglul strategy verthron of the capitalist stale.
New revolutionars socialist parties are more HELL A T hetors. Conditions more lavourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties tall only be rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as a luxury hut as a vital necessity. This means the right lo organise factions and tendencies.
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