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Socialist Challenge No. 271, 26 November 1982 · p. 7 of the scan · 564 words

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principal citadels.

There would have to be a totally lifferent economic climate for political personnel to be prepared to ake the final solution for the whole of humanity to come to the leadership " the principal imperialist powers. The main forces of big capital would tave to be literally driven to the brink. There would have to be other domilant ideologies, a different relationhip of forces between the classes in hese countries.

Of as the down-ward rend of the international capitalist conomy and usterity offensive and war drive of international capital sharpens, the cluding time it will be nuclear death.

Anel of big capital, threshold as the NUCI sonalities, tendencies, indeed political forces, who symbolise the deferminaLion to literally fight to the death, in- believe collective suicide, whispers, greater glory of private property, or like Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo, will begin to appear in the wing: and on the edge of the stage. But this It would be deeply irresponsible to brush aside the possibility of such a society, "suicidal turn' by the leading persononce a certain of the structural crisis of property capitalism in decline is passed, like that passed in Germany in 1932. Those who think that the 'balance of For anti-nuclear propaganda can save us forever are like those who the little 'You can't die!" Alas, our own fate, we humans, is not only that individuals inevitably die, but even the species could disappear. If it does not master its own fate in time, if, faced with the threat of nuclear war, it does not impose firm rules of order on creating a world social order which war impossible This means the abolition of private and the sovereign nation state, and the constitution of a world government of producers (the world distinguish between the bureaucratised workers states and states, that they sometimes use the jargon describing the US and USSR as "the super-powers', putting them on an equal footing; masses do not exhibit 'proletarian in ternationalism' towards revolutions in progress (reproaches which are, moreover, partly recognise two essential aspects of the world situation.

Firstly, it is imperialism and imperialism alone desperately needs nuclear weapons for its counter-revolutionary military strategy. Thus, to concentrate the movement against nuclear weapons is to objectively strike a blow against Secondly, to the extent that they include section that bourgeois that these control policy, false) fail to the organised ternational level.

Viewpoint Latest issue includes maETHICIE Seen rate pretece general Brazil. terest is a long report Solidarnose in China. TOESSTOR Individual copies 65p Socialist Challenge for dividing the anti-war movement in the West, and slowing down its rapid growth, the anti-war movement in the East objectively strikes a stronger blow against imperialism than against the bureaucracy. In reclaiming public over foreign and military the autonomous anti-war movement in Eastern Europe and in the USSR objectively promotes the anti-bureaucratic political revolution.

This is an integral part of the world revolution and thus of the humanity nuclear destruction. As has just been shown in the advances of the political revolution and counter-revolution in such developments bring almost immediate consequences negative in positive in the first case, the second - for the anti-imperialist and anti-capitalist struggle at the inthe Other Bookshop, 328 Upper S:

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26 November 1982 page 7

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