capitalist and non-capitalist states.
policy with a 'new look.
NO EVASIONS in thia way.
more domocratic than what exists todav.
rights in the USSR, China and Eastern Europe.
OUR DEMOCRACY any meaningful socialist democracySocialists have to unequivocally argue tor:
up arms against the now state. to publish their newspapers, books.
b) The separation of the must be independent organs of delegates over to their views.
Any workers' state closer to being realised.
attempt to get our own house in order.
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men, Mack people, gay trupeline or 1rtr aberalion. This sucialism con poly he ischlated by creating new organs of poser wed delatint with PREPARATIONS ARE in full swing for the second conference of heads of governments from the major It Is obvious that the main item on the agenda will be the question of human rights". Already given an airing at Helsinki, the issue has become the comerstone of Carter's attempte to provide American foreign Thre response of socialists to these gatherings has to be thought out with some care. if is no longer sufficient simply to point out the character of the regimes sustained by American capital in Asia, Africa and Latin America and to list the goverments which torture and maim their opponents with the aid of US Nor is it enough to list the growing encroachments on civil liberties taking place in Britain, West Germany and France., These are Important and have to be denounced, but the cantral question cannot be evaded Socialists have to say where they stand on a number a fundamental issues concernino democracy. We nave to argue that the socialism we are fighting for will be and our veryday political practice has to reflect this assertion.
of demonstrating our contempt for the hypocriales of the imperialist leaders and our solidarity with all those fighting for democratic Even the Communist Parties who have moved the farthest andy from the USSR have still not come out for the right of other political parties to axiat in the Eastern countries. They accept the monopoly of one party. We challenge this assertion as being totally opposed to a) The right of all political parties to exist under the dictatorship of the proletariat provided they do not take This Includes the right nel pampunets, weir The right of access to radio and television. majority party and its apparatus from that of the state. This means that there BONES where all parties have the right to be represented and where opposition parties can exist and fight to win c) The right of workers to strike, This means the existence of independent trade unions not tied to the which operated on these principles ias even the limited and embryonic example of Dubcek's Czechoslovakia demonstrates) would have an extremely powenur tarport onne worns massooo capitaliet Europe and America and would bring the possibilities of socialist revolutions in the West much Thus socialists attempting to intervene in the run-up to the Belgrade conference must not be tempted into merely denouncing imperialist hypocrisies, but must