C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders ofthe Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of lhe workers but of the capitalist class.
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• To huild broad-based sluggie renucucito m opposinon to class-conaporanonism in inc labour movement. These should grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.
• To begin to fight for the creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through application united laches. begin lo ne seen as an alternative by thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be hased on the understanding that: • Seeks to unite the fight on The struggle for socialism I workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers ni' society — women, black people. gays struggling for iberation. This socialism can only he achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating necessary means the power of the Our socialism will more democratic 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 CSSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and will otter fuil support fighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism has only created market, has created politics. Thus we fight for working class unity This unity will in the long Salt run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, Africa and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal British troops from letting the irish people determine The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis. Neither the 'Eurocommunist' the wings have any meaningful stralegs for overthron of the capitalist state. Ven revolutionary socialist parties are necessary than Conditions today more farourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties only be built rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as a luxury but as a vital necessit!. This means the right to organise factions and If you agree with these principles and activities by Socialist Challenge supporters in your area, fill in the form below and send it to us.
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IT SEEMS has been set class National Abortion Creater.
Jean Saint, and front of their be all all those Ireland and the Never are more likely that the Select Committee that discuss John anti-abortion Bill may make the time limit 24 weeks ralaci Wan eo weeks as briguany proposca. 10e Campaign is writing to pro-choice MPs who are members of the Select Committee urging them to oppose strongly reductions in the present time limit of 28 weeks.
of the NAC steering a membe committee, told Socialist Challenge why:
'Any reduction in the time limit can only cause suffering to the tiny proportion of women (often young women who are too frightened to deal with the problem quickly) who seek abortion at a late stage. NAC feels that, l4 any situation where a woman is seeking an abortion, the responsibility and therefore the choice should lie with the woman herself. Any restriction on the time limit is a further attack on women's already limited rights.' Dr Gerard Vaughan, the Minister of State at the Department of Health and member of the Select and a told strong odds.
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worth Corrie's And no law on earth modern day Spain the any NAC Public Meeting:
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CELIA PUGH, in the Brent branch of the International Marxist Group Central Committee member Socialist Challenge how week's paper went down on the 5,000 anti-cuts demonstration Lambeth last Wednesday.
Our 1,000 sales target gave us the added incentive we needed Socialist Challenge despite all the The demonstration began torrential rain. Waving soggy copies of the paper was no advert for our At first, many people thought we were selling it for Sp because we were trying to get rid of wet copies!
But when we explained that the cut in price from 20p to 5p was a cut supporting many marchers bought willingly.
demonsistion was the high profile of, A disturbing about the the police who were used as stewards throughout.
Whilst selling outside Central Hall a cop moved me on remarking: "This is about the twentieth time I've had to move you'. This was a bit of an exaggeration as I had only really beer moved on twelve times!
The police were refusing to-allow people to sell on the kerbside as the | 01-8371.
abortions foetuses that are capable of life. Clearly he is not so concerned about the lives of womem forced to choose between unwanted babies or the backstreet doministed We do not We are quite capable of making this decision for ourselves — be it in ancient Egypt or has ever stopped women trying to control their fertility. The question is are women going to be forced to risk their lives in the process. John Corrie says Yes. We say No.
'What a woman's right to choose means'. ULU, Malet St. 20 November at IN France, a leading bourgeois politician has on Giscard-Gaullist pressures to find their own pond.
having driven his wife to drink.
anything in the mass media, by exposés across the capitalist world.
war in Ireland is getting nowhere.
Britain's policy there, I policy than it does about Kennedy. caused considerable ripples in ruling circles by immersing bimself in two feet of brackish water and thereby escaping from a scandal over the purchase of a country house. The problem for the rest of the government is simple: since they all get up to these capers, how do they resist In Britain things might seem a little different. After all, the media of late have been full of disgust for a leading bonreeois poltician who o aved &l unsavoury role in a drowning and who is accused of An exemplary exposé by journalists who put principles first? Not quite. If principles counted for the muck-raking campaign against Teddy Kennedy could be joined of countless crooks in government There is just one reason why the British media loathe Kennedy. He has dared to suggest that unity off the Irish nation is a desirable aim and that the policy of the British government in relation to its Teddy Kennedy is a liar, a crook, and on such issues as abortion an out-and-out reactionary. That he can pose as a progressive on Ireland, in contrast says more about that
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