Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labnur Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitalist class.
Socialist Chailenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition class-collaborationism in labour movement. These should be non-exclusive grouping together militants holdine a wide range of political views.
• In begin to fight for the creation of unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can. an application of untied begin to be seen as an alternative thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle seeks to unite the fight of I workers with that of other oppressed layers of society -- women, black people, beration. This socialism can only struggling be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with necessary means ine power of le capitalist state. P infinites more democratic Our socialism • than what exists in Britain today, with full rights for political parties and currents that do not lake 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 throughout the We are opposed to them and will offer full support to lentine for socialist bemocraty• The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism only created market. has created politics. Thus we light for working class unity scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating 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 Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis, Neither 'Eurocommunist' the pro-Moscow wings have any meaningful strategy overthrow of the capitalist state.
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