the cohesion of these organisations, in preparing for the disbandment of the Socist revolution or Ine stanciag army, capitalist police, and other repressive forces; self-defence of workers and the oppressed against capitalist violence. * The struggle for workers demo cracy; the clection with an automatic right of recall of all officials in the working class movement; no labour movement official to be paid more than the average wage of a skilled worker; mass democratic organisation of all struggles; therepeal of all political bans and proscriptions and the right to form opposition tendencies in the trade unions and labour movement 5 The struggle for socialism is international. The only reliable ally the working class and oppressed of one country have is the struggle of the exploited and oppressed other BABOOS The great victories against imperialism won by China, Cuba, and Vietnam have internationally weakened capitalism and its supporters. The struggleof workers and other oppressed people in Eastern Europe and other bureaucratically dominated States weakens the bureaucracy of the USSR and the international Stalinist system.
The victory of socialist revolution in an imperialist country would have immense repercussions on a global scale. Following a successful revolution any the construction of socialism could not be completed in a single country, but only as part of the international extension of the revolution. The working class of Britain and every otber country can be victorious only through linking themselves indissolubly to the international class struggle.
In Britain our necessary internationalist tasks include the fight for:
• Immediate and unconditional British military and political withdrawal from Ireland and the right of its people to self-determination; the release of all Irish political prisoners and the repeal of the 'Prevention of Terrorism' Act; the creation of a mass solidarity movement to help those fighting against British imperialism to achieve these aims.
• Immediate withdrawal of all British forces from abroad; independence for all remaining colonies; unilateral nuc lear Bricain and withdrawal from NATO and all imperialist alliances; breaking of all links with the racist white-settier regimes of Southern Africa; support of all struggles for national liberation; support for all exploited countries in struggles against imperialism; defence of any States which successfully overtbros CaDEts 35m * The right of the people of Scotland and Wales to determine what their relationship to the British State should be, including the right to their own independence if they so wish.
* Support and defence of all struggles for buman, social, and democratic rights in the USSR and other bureacratically dominated States: support for the revolutionary struggle to overthrow the Stalinist burcaucracies.
*Support of all international workers' struggles; total opposition and defeatist in imperialist war. Against stralegic alliances w Capilal 6. The struggle for the needs of t oppressed and exploited is in irreconc able contradiction with the interest capitalism and its supporters. The fig for even the most basic human nigh involves an increasing clash with ti structures of capitalist society. It is th reality which determines our actions revolutionary socialists. The struggle of the working class and oth oppressed people independently of t capitalist class is the only road success. Neither in the imperinl countries nor in the colonial world there any fundamentally progressi section of the capitalist class with whi the working class can ally to solve t problems facing society.
While the working class will engage temporary practical action with a Ada/net racism, tree abortion on deman force prepared to wage a serious strug to achieve the goals of the oppressed, strategies wen Sock to a tac bus with sections of the ruling class - wi controls, coalition governments w parties of the bourgeoisie, limiting t goals of struggles in colonial countr to capitalist ones — serveonly to weak and finally defeat the struggle It is solely the independent fight their own goals by their own means t the working class and its allies colonial countries above all in alliar with the peasantry — which can bri victory.
The Labour Lieutenants of Capita 7 The chief organised force within workers" movement in Britain hold back the struggle against the capita class is the bureaucratic leadership
the labour movement. These labour lieutenants of capital attempt at all costs to contain the struggle of the workers greatest international aid received by capitalism comes from the burcaucracy of the Soviet Union and similar States. HEARNE Socialist Challenge, 6 October 2977, p11