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revolutonary socialsis are: • To build Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions orer solutions Inal are in tne interests, not of tne workers, but or tne capitalst Socialist Challenge believes that broad-based class struggle tendencies in CESS-COLanore tonismin the labour movement. nese snout me non-excasive 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 vegin to be scen as an alternative oy tnousanos of workers engaged in struggles Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
Ones ruggle torsocialm seeksto unre ne lent or the workers gorins the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of society black people, gays — struggling for their liberation. This socialism can ¿only be acmieved oy creating new organs of power and deleating with ai necessary means the power of the capitalist state the two vital tasks confronting opposition to them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democracy Jaime interests or workers and cabialis are reconciana an award world politics. Thus we fight for working class units on an international scale. This unity will in the long run be 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 withdran al at-British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future One communist Parties in Europe "Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings havi strategs for the overthrow of the capitalist state, New resolutionar socialist parties are more necessary than ever hefore. Conditions todas are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties can only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as luxury but as a vital necessits. This means the right to organise factions and are in crisis Neither the Many meaningful
another burden to bear.' change it.
THE CURRENT strike Wave important to all socialists as attempt by the working class to fight back after taking cuts in avine standaras and scrvice vorking class women nave born ine burden ol ine government's cuts LIVERPOOL WOMEN'S ACTION GROUP explain why this is the case and what the trade unions and the left can do to that schools were closed and work to look after the children or pay childminders. In some areas the buses were on ine road.
It's tragic that low-paid women in the public sector have to take action mial unvoives surering to get even s minimal wage rise the nich have to suffer, they can pay for the Lame off •don't of 9-11 March.
PICKETING 'Democratic HAVE US OUR DAILY ance tently name Death in March AS predicted in this column the Broad Left in the Nationa Union of Students is nearing its end. According to sources close can to the Broad Left in Bristol, invitations have been sent out for a 'summit' on the weekend This meeting will launch a Students' Allia project which the Broad Left's main backer, the , has consisdenied. The infra- right structure tor a condon studen body bearing this or a similar has already been organised and will be unveiled a few days after the 'summit'.
Student readers will not be grounded Thomson House.
The Leveller's January issue had carried an attack on the head-in-the-sand attitude of the Thunderer itself. "Technology and does raise living standards' declared Mike Pimes. He forgot to ask for Prest, journalist on The The magazine's typesetters, the Bread 'n Roses collective, who belong to the National Graphical Association, quested and secured a one-page reply *astonishingly reactionary article'. But in the closing stages of production, a member of the Leveller collective decided that -as mucn as tney wanted Ent reply - space problems were too pressing.
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in spende health sector, maternity. 'TO MANY WOMEN, the present strikes must seem like yet