within the limits of bourgeois rule and bourgeois democracy, but do not hesitate to hand the working class over to the most vile and barbarous forms of dictatorship if they fear that capitalist rule may be threatened by working class resistance to the ruling class.
In Britain we have had eight Labour governments, all of which have supported cuts in living standards, imperialist wars, racism, attacks on women and a wholearray of reactionary policies. The supporters of these Labour leaderships in the trade unions have prevented the Tabour movement carrying out any serious struggle for the needs of the working class and oppressed.
Their entire record and position in society shows that it is a reactionary and utopian illusion to see a transition to socialism achieved by a Labour govemment, or that these leaderships will carry out any serious struggle against capitalIsm. The influence of the bureaucratic leadershin of the labour movement over the masses must be totally defeated if the struggle for socialism be successful. This struggle involves creating political organisation of the working class and building oppositions to the policies and position of the bureaucratic leaders within the trade unions and other mass The Soviet Bureaucracy * While the central obstacle to the victory of socialism in Britain is the national and international capitalist system togetber with the labour bureau. cracy tied to the working class, the The entire experience of Stalinism in the East has provided the most crucial ideological cement in helping canitalism to maintain its rule.
The system established by Stalin in overturning the principles of the Russian Revolution, murdered the Icadership of the Bolshevik Party, and liquidated millions of revolutionaries and workers. It carried out this entire policy in pursuit of its bureaucratic survival and in the framework of the reactionary utopian illusion and policy that socialism can be built in The Soviet bureaucracy today still exercises a complete monopoly of political power and represses all oppositions and moves for workers' democracy in Russia, the oppressed nations within the Soviet Union, and in Eastern Europe. This bureaucracy subordinates to its own interests of classcollaboration with the bourgeoisie all parties throughout the world which follow its line.
The defeat of parties which slavishly follow its line, as well of the "Eurocommunists', who seek to accomodate between the Soviet bureaucracy and the bourgeoisie of their own country, is an indispensible part of the struggle for the overthrow of capitalism.
Mass Working Class Organisations 9 Despite the reformist and counterrevolutionary character of the Socialist and Communist Parties they differ from all Tory, Liberal, and capitalist nationalist' parties in that they together with the trade and other formations → remain organisations of the working class. Furthermore a clear distinction has to be made between the reformist leaders of parties such as the Labour Party in Britain or the Communist Party in Italy and the millions of workers who continue to either support or belong to them.
Despite fundamental disagreements with the policies and leaders of these parties, revolutionaries defend these organisations against ruling class attacks and persistently demand that they break with the interests and organisations of capitalism. Revolutionary socialists fight for united action of all parties and organisations of the working class to defend the interests of the exploited and oppressed.
The struggle for State power 10 The victory of socialism can only be brought about by the working class winning and holding State power. The capitalist economy, racism, the family, and all forms of social oppression are defended and maintained by the capitalist State. All bistorical experience (Vietnam, Chile, South Africa) demonstrates that a threatened ruling class will stop at nothing to stay in power. Capitalist leaders are fully prepared to unleash violenoe and bloody repression against the oppressed.
The military bureaucratic State machine around which every capitalist State is ultimately based cannot be reformed, or transformed in its class character. wished out of existence. It has to be encountered, smashed, and replaced by a new State machine based on the oppressed and exploited. The central goal of revolutionary strategy is to secure the means to achieve this.
The road to victory 11 The victory of socialist revolution in the West can only come about through the creation of a system of workers' democracy which allows the masses to control their lives on every level. A similar system is vital to overthrow the bureaucracies in the USSR and the East.
Such a system of workers' democracy has its first embryos within the organisations of the working class and oppressed. But to confront and destroy ruling ciass power, and create new institutions of socialist democracy after the revolution, proletarian democracy has to be developed beyond the restrictive confines of the parliamentary system.
Only workers councils representing all sections of the oppressed masses can fulfill such a function. Such a system, to adequately express the interests of the working class and oppressed, must guarantee therighrof all political parties which respect the institutions of workers" democracy to function and exist, and must ensure the independence of the trade unions, women's movement, black and other organisations from the A similar system has to be fought for in the USSR and in all countrics under bureaucratic domination. Such asystem is the only one which. with the International extension of the revolu tion, cnables the transition to socialist society to occur:
Consequences of Capilalism 12 The existence of a bureaucratic laver which constitutes the leadership of the labour movement is rooted not in accidental errors of policy, but in the fundamental conditions of imperialist society and in the case of Stalinist parties in the existence of bureaucratised States such as the USSR.
The ability of the labour bureaucracies to mislead the masses is rooted in the fact that under normal conditions, the mechanisms of the capitalist State based on imperialism continue to dominate The sociatorce capable of leading the struggle for the establishment of socialiam is the working class society as a whole. These mechanisms systematically prevent the majority of the working class from having a clear grasp of the nature of capitalism.
It is only in periods of massaction and profound crisis of the bourgeois system that the oppressed masses in their majority gain a clear understanding of the system which confronts them and the tasks necessary to overthrow it. If the masses have not been prepared long in advance to go over to a conscious understanding of a revolutionary programme, cach wave of action will b diverted by the bureaucratic leadership of the workers' movement; will reced like previous waves. and will leave behind the crisis of society unresolved.
Itisthis central struggle for the victory of the working class and the establishment of its political power, involving the FOR AN OPEN DISCUSSION tor a revolutionery socialist organisation.
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fight against theleadership of the labour movement, that requires the building of a revolutionary socialist party. It is this central fight for the creation of working class political power against the policy of the bureaucratic leadership of the labour movement that requires the building of a revolutionary socialist organisation. Such an organisation to maintain its consistent defence of the interests of the working class, and to be based in the real conditions under which it must act — can only be built through full internal democracy, including the right to form opposition tendencies and factions, and full unity in action Given the international character of the class struggle and the revolutionary process itself, such an organisation must seck to build and bocome part of a revolutionary international.
Socialist Challenge submits these posiiions as the basis for the construction of a unified revolutionery organisation. We believe thet, elaborated and improved through discussion, they constitute & principled basis Such an organisation however cannot be crealed overnight, A process of comtadely debile, inlied work, and discussion of ideas and experiences has to be established between dilferent groups and thou sands of individuals who have arrived at or are moving Socialst Challenge alms to play a role in this by opening its columns to all those engaged in struggle against the capitalist class and bureaucracies, by providing space lor debate of different ideas in the struggle for soclalism, and by uniting through its editorial board and common activities those engiged in that sense we see our paper ss an Important next step in the struggle and appeal to our readers to organise themselves in Sociallet Challenge groups. utilise our columns to aid their struggle tight for revolutionary socialist organisations to anify, and help In prepering the conference we will schedule for next
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origin, will be emigrating to Bolivia this year.
This information was originally published in Bolivia by the Movemont of the Revolutionary Left (MIR), dated 12 Fehruary. Despile repression and strict press A hundred and fifty thousand white settlers from Rhodesia, Namibia and South Africa, mainly of German and Dutch Alrica in the near future. Not being in a position to confront the wang social and cooponne pres lems preventing the integration of the settlers in their country orimit. the povertients of We Dutch and German origin, pa ticularly from Namibia, Zimbab and South Africa. Bolivian public ornson, used to hearin different policy statements from Government spokespeople, did not attach much significance to Strauss's statement.
The project went ahead until, on 14 February, the Bollvian Gover mcut received a visit from Senor Leon, in charge of CIME in Latin brasil Socialist Challenge, 6 October 1977. p13 CZECHOSLOVAKIA: Vladimir Lasturka and Ales Macha cek, supporters of the Charter human rights manifesto have been sentenced to three and a half years in jail for sub version'. The Charler demande the implementation of certain clauses of the Constitution. FRANCE: The Goverument has introduced a new scheme for cash-induced repatriation of immigrant workers, Indivi dual letters have been sent to 50,000 immigrants, but only 3,600 have agreed to reparria Bon. The plan, which was de union and left-
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