Capitalism is in cris of the Labeu: Party and the trade unions offer solations that are in not of the workers nut of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To huild broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should non-exclusive in grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.
• To begin to fight for the creation of unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front tactics, begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for seeks to unite the fight of workers against the with that of other oppressed layers of society -women, black people. gays struggling for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
I than what exists in Britain 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 millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of + - capitalist are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism only created market, created polities. Thus we fight for working class _unity on an 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, In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future.
The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis. Neither the 'Eurocommunist" the pro-Moscow wings have any meaningful for overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionary socialist parties HICLESSAR than Conditions more tavourable than preceding three decades. But such parties can only be rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as a luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and tendencies.
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