lead by right wing - the fact is that they have no conditions following the the HOWA NI reject the and reforms. class. This entails The general and most productive sections -Transitional This Attacks the mass needs of the workers, We will fight for the principled In , foster comradely ruling class of a single But we have to reflects the misorientate the being groups and the SWP and IMG through youth both as within and develop our comrades on the Central Committee)
The World Political Resolution adopted at the world congress of the fourth International held last November set the central task for the FI to help all its natlonal sectons to get the majority of their members into industry. Many sections of the FI are already making the turn and others are for a class clarifying the political issues in order to do Underlying these decisions is the estimate of the world economy and changes in world politics defeat for US imperialism in Vietnam and the inability of world imperialism February to get the system back on its feet since the onset of the world recession of 1974. The turn to industry big changes in the situation confronting the imperialists and from the way the working class is responding to the deepening ruling class offensive being waged against it.
The chronic international crisis of capitalism is rooted in the most basic contradictions of the capitalist system. It excludes the possibility that the capitalist class can buy off the working class and its allies through massive social concessions LUTE character Thatcher government's offensive is to turn the clock back economically, socially and politically. It weeks to destroy the fundamental gains of the welfare state won in 1945. To do this there has to be a regroupment major change in the relationship of class forces. national Major defeats must be inflicted on the working class, especially on its strongest, most organised the industrial working class. In order to restore its rate of profit the ruling class is obliged to make the industrial workers and their unions the key target.
Legislation against the unions, attacks on trade union democracy, especially on the right to strike and to win other workers in solidarity, and the maintenance of sexist and racist divisions within the labour movement are a necessary preparation to prevent a generalised fight back. These facts pose the absolute need for the labour movement to lead the fight for the broad social women, blacks, immigrants and youth, and win these forces as allies in the coming showdown with the The depth of the economic crisis, the nature of the ruling class offensive and the response of turn the working class have already put the industrial * to workers at the centre of the fight back. To have any influence in the big class battles (like in steel) and to recruit industrial workers to the IMG requires us to make the turn to industry now.
It is the only way we can take advantage of the in the class struggle, thereby implementing and carrying forward our basic proletarian orientation.
The turn requires us to substantially increase our influence in the Labour Party. Labour Party activists delegated from trade unions can be influential in helping to develop and win support struggle programme mobilise workers and their oppressed allies in united anti-capitalist actions.
Discussing the importance of and implication of the turn and deciding to carry it out is the single most important task before our conterence overwhelming majority of the outgoing Central Committee support the turn to industry. At the conference a way must be lound to register the maximun support for the turn so that it can be carried out in the most effective way possible. Polarisation The polarisation of the organisation around the question of the Socialist Workers Party (UK) cuts across mobilising the IMG to carry out the For Tendency One to project a major orientation towards fusion with the SWP while at the samé time stating there is no possibility of a fusion in the next period is irresponsible. This is the continuation- of the project adopted 1978 conference. This project completely failed in its task to fuse with organisations like the International Socialist Alliance and Big Flame and build the IMG.
order to win the man! • revolutionary. minded militants in the ranks of the SWP to the IMG and the FI it is necessary to make a politica. offensive against the SWP while endeavouring to get the maximum unity with them in class struggle action. Through our concrete work to build a class struggle left-wing in the labour movement we will show that we are the militants equipped with the programme, organisational concepts, strategy and tactics to build a Leninist combat party. By putting our resources into making the turn to the industrial workers we will be able to convince members of the SWP of the correctness of our proletarian orientation and win them to Trotskyism.
The major tasks facing our organisation are: * to géta majority of out members into industr to decisively increase the number of supporters we have in the LP as a necessary part of the orient Socialist Challenge towards the workers and their struggles and make it a paper to build the IMG * to build the Trotskyist youth organisation