CASS revolutionary socialists are: Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions 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 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 tactics, begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands of workers engaged in 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 sqcialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with al necessary means the power of the capitalist state. • tendencies in opposition to scale. Capitalism has not onls created a world market, it has creat 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 of British-troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist Parties in Europe are in strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state.
• socialist parties are more necessary than eser before. Conditions todas are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties can only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal demacract not an a luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a wurld scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating hoth the Neither the "Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings have ans meaninglul