revolutionary socialists are: offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalist Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting * To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive 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 tacties, begin to be seen as an alternative by tnousands or workers engagco struggles Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of society black people, gays — struggling for their liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all cessary means the power of the capitalist state. opposition to - women.
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Our socialism will be infinitely more democratic than what exists in Britain today, with full rights for all political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of "socialism in the USSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of the millions of workers throughout the world. We are opposed to them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market, it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an international scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, Africa and Asia In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal wi_British-troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future The Communist Parties in Europe are in crisis Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings have ans meaninglul strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state.
socialist parties are more necessary than ever hefore. Conditions Inday are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties van only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracs not is d luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and