socialist state. The Stalinist models of 'socialism' in the USSR Fastern Furope have discredited sncialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the He are opposed to them and will offer ful! support 10 fighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of workers and Sima work sale: Captaini on a worid scale. Capitalism nol only created marhet. il has created politics. Thus we fight for working class unil! an an scale. This units will in the long run he decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships sustain in Latin America, and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal British troops from letting the Irish people deter cane their own future.
The Communist parties in Europe are in crisis. the 'Eurocommunist the pro-Moscon wings have any meaningful overthrow of the capitalist state.
New revolutionary socialist parties are necessar!
Conditions today more fasourable than preceding three decades. But such parties can only rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not as a luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right in organise factions and lendencies.
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government re-organisation , ther Africa industrial image was dropped, denly the area thrusting 'County Cleveland' of Ireland and was a time when chemical Neither and "all"
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in more complete projects like the ving idle as the industrialising joction ord de Tonic If the covers of Socialist Challenge are any indication of what the perThe issue with the cover headline Unemployment It's not hard to see why. After local in 1973, the "Teesside' with its dour, polluted there became the dynamic, The area had a consistently better jobs record than the rest of the North-east. It the construction boom was at its peak. Inink old mull-lamonai company, and it was sure to be investing heavily in plant on the ICI, Monsanto, Phillips, BP were all Steel constructing the massive Redcar complex, the biggest blast furnace in West Europe.
heat of Harold has Ine Guaraian reporca Middlesbrough's male unemployment rate has reached a staggering 17.6 per cent, while Hartlepool's is The thousands of skilled workers who petro-chemical sites find that a relative handful of technicians are needed Middlesbrough branch orrhe Engineering secretary Union's construction section. He explains Almost half our members are on the Of those who are in work, over a outside the area. The lack of investment means that which have been promised to us number two blastfurnace John blames the private profit syste main cause, but adds: "There's no doubt that Thatcher is making us bring a strong Lars area. Seis deCleveland.' and a Dat son on the street is concerned about, it's apparent what worries most thermend proces alled any the - the only growth industry in Tory Britain' was a best-seller in Middlesbrough's to plead for more government handouts, For school leavers, the outlook is not so much bleak as non-existent. were youth work, and 21 notified vacancies. 8,000 leave school month. In the Civil Service office in which I work, not one person has been recruited since the Tories won the election.
The response from the region's MPs has been the classic case of all that is wrong with the Labour leadership. no. thern group of Labour MPs continualThatcher won't invite them moans in the Street to discuss NOTE Meanwhile, on 14 May, not one Cleveland Association of Trades cils. The only policy of the Labour MPs is which the multinationals happily pocket as they lay off more workers.
On 1 May beginnings of a fightback. long 840 steel workers from the beam and rod mills at BSC Lackenby stayed this when number of fitters' mates in the plant mangemen lace persuaded 'negotiations'. strike The HOU 2,650 jobs by Xmas, as part of a produc- announced plans. to that Margaret ing: "the problems of the of them Slowly, But the first nine days of June saw the : was how their children. part out reduce the After a stormy meeting union leaders back pending The imnortance of. this Crafts, was proved in the same week as *shake Friday. Wo tivity deal which the unions are discuss*Th he lin arent soled by then inc, aren't sold by then widely expected that the bosses • will chor anyway. A further 600 are to with the closure of the Cleveland mill this Danger is beginning to mount • Teesside, as more ana more people themselves and their organisations to pon tect their jobs and to guarantee some for of this proces the Interna tional Marxist Group in Middlesbrough i organising a public meeting:
and the lessons of the See reside Speakers; Bernard Connolly Allied Tenor BSC Rotherham; Brian National Organise June, 7.30pm at King's Hea Hotel, Grangetown.
h.lc prepared to offer