and corruption of the rock industry.
In the New Musicial Express they have constantly attacked racism and sexism and brought back a report from the battle of Lewisham in 1977 cent water (by weight). a white sliced loaf (wl) which is 75 pe cent hot air (by volume) and 40 pe But eating a lot of this kind of bread has been related to the incidence of towards what women's oppression is and how to fight it. It's a new and And there's some SLOSeS THE SUSAN WATKINS fucking good LOUI products of the qualitatively system the character of the book. It is: popular account of the present crisis • a counterblast against bourgeon economists and bourgeois politicians who argue for austerity. It is vital reading for every militant who wants for the events shaking the world capitalist economy.
"The crisis and the re-emergence of massive unemployment are organic capitalist •SYSICHI They cannot be overcome within the framework of the system except by a sharp deterioration in the living and working conditions of the workers. To reject this deterioration is possible only by rejecting the capitalist system and immaung me construchon or a different economic To be sure, the workers' movemo.3 cannot be content to fight the crisis with the mere proclamation of the La general anti-capitalist to do SO would entail division, demoralization and certain crisis confronts the alarming concrete problems: layoffs, job losses, factory closures, attacks on wages and socia SOCCO-UD alLack. previously acquired trade-union and TILLES fight for immediate demands under the pretext that there is no way out within the framework of capitalism' is to condemn oneselt anc the entire working class to impotence In any event, the working class will not follow dogmatists who mount that particular hobby-horse. The workers have already shown that tila are prepared to fight stubbornly to defend every gain, every threatened The elementary duty of revolutionary Marxists is to support this struggle with all their might, proposing the most enccave demand:
and organisational form:
The 35-36 hour week, a sliding scal of wages (its defence or conquest depending on the conditions in each country, the defence of the right to strike and the freedom to negotiate wages, the struggle for solidarity with the hardest hit sectors- immigrant workers, women, youth, old people, the unemployed; such are the prime THIS essentially defensive struggle.
To the argument of the emplover and reformists that these demands threaten to exacerbate the crisis the reDivis that. given the choice betweet defence of the physical and mora integrity of our class and defence of capitalist's profits, we opt resolutely defend our class, defence of profit. If full employment and a decent standard of living have become incompatible with capitalism, the employers have only to depart.
nere wil be some commisis are ultra-leftists too who respond that factory by factory industrv bv industry. region, or even country by country, but only as a whole; while awaiting the general combat against international capitalism (simultaneously in all countries, of course), a combat that will assuredly consign this system to the dustbin of history, they say, one must yield to this logic of capital.
The answer to this argument is simple: everything has a beginning. It is perfectly possible to defeat an employer or a sector of the employers if the working class is united, resolute, and develops a leadership that is up to unleash a general combat than to wage some arma bardes maracnev complete success and thus show the workers in practice that it is possible existing wages, and rights.
It is true, however, that any success in the defensive struggle remains only fragmentary and provisional. In the long run the logic of capital will reassert itself so long as we remain under the capitalist system. This logic of capital particularly works agains! the working class during a period of massive unempioyment and cconomi That is why any defensive combat must be integrated into an overall anti-capitalist strategy that seeks to by all possible means, mobilisation of the working class around transitional demands directed against the fundamental cases of the evils from which the workers suffer.
Socialist Challenge 9 November 1978 Page 15