The fight for action on the 35-hour week-including the call for government action—is a vital task now for the left wing in the class.
Socialist Challenge revolutionary socialists are: Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trades unions offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalıs believes that classrollaborations bin the tabour strement These should be nonsensive * To build broad-based class in character grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views. * To begin to fight for the creation of a unified and democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front tactics. begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands of workers engaged in struggles.
such an organisation shoulo be baseu on me understanamg war The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers agains two vital tasks confronting •tencencies n ODDOSHION 10 organs of power and defeating with all imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships thes vustain in Tatir America, Africa and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troop from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future The Communist Parties in Europe are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties car only be built by rejecting sectarianism and sering internal democraes not as usurs but as a vital necessa ms means fe near are tact The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world orld politics. Thus we fight for working class units on an internatior scale. This units will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the are in crisis. Seither th "Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings have ans meaningful strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionary socialist parties are more necessary than ever hefore. Conditions todas
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HOIC and more heated. 'Yes', he shouts at one point, 1 am for the return of a Labour government.' "So we, shout the hecklers. But I the struggles which are going Why is this item in NfN? You well ask. Reason: thought best mention on several pages rather than a big splurge on one page. Imaginative? Not really, but an improvement. Cheers for now. See you on Friday, OK?
To be continued THE SAGA of the refusal of LAD, une engineering umon white-collar - secuon, to back the Lucas Aerospace workers plan is set to run and run.
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