C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers hut of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition to class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These shond be non-exclusive in grouping together mililants holding a wide range of political views.
• In begin in fight for the unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, application of united lactics, hegin to be seen as an alternative 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 guainst the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of societ! — women, black penple.
struggling liberation. This socialism can only be achiever by creating new organs of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the Our socialism will infinitel! more democrand I than what exists in Britain today. full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of 'socialism' in the USSR and Fastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and will offer tull support all lighning for socialist democracs.
› The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism has not only created a market. if has created world politics. i hus we fight for working class units on an scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West character.
through of be all go *owny: experienced death before in a human being. Now I am seeing it in a — John McFadyen, Convenor, Singer Shop-Stewards Committee SOME commentators likened the conference at Blackpool to a National Front rally. William Whitelaw urged a taste of harsh military discipline for 'youne yobbos'. Julian Amery accused Thatcher and Lord Carrington of selling our their beloved kith and kin in Rhodesia, Michael received rapturous "social revolution' of handing over council houses and public land to private enterprise. And Thatcher capped it all by claiming that 'millions of workers in fear of union power' - and received a statulug ovalon No one can be in any doubt about the Tories strategy for defeating the movement. But how should we respond? It is not enough to huff and puff as the Labour leaders do about this government bringing its own downfall at the next general election.
There will be no defeat for the Tories in the nex election if there is no resistance to Tory policie now. Five years is a long time to wait for leadership when faced with mass unemployment and attacks on democratic rights. We cannot wait for the Tories to fall → they have to be pushed Nor is it enough just to push on the 'rally round the unions' angle. attempts to delay giving black people the power in Zimbabwe. We have to fight for without loss of pay to ensure the unemployed find jobs. We have to fight for a choose whether to have a child. We have to build a movement that can get Britain out of Ireland. We have to fight the Tories on every front.
Tory Party applause for his trade union We have to fight the Tory work-sharing woman's right to