Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not oi the workers hut of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the iwo vital lasks contronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition io ciass-conanorauonisa in lne labour movement. These should HOTI-CACIUSIYE grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.
• To begin in fight for the creation of unified democratic revo utionary socialist organisation which can, through application of united front tactics, alternative thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be paseo on une unoerstanding taal.
The struggle for unite the fight of Tworkers against the with that of other oppressed layers of' society - women, biack people, liberation, This socialism can only struggling nt power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the c'apitalist statt.
what exists in Britain ilal, full rights for political parfies and currents that do not lakt up arms against the socialist stare. The Stalinist models of "socialism' in the L.SSR and Lastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eres of millions of worhers throughout the world. We are opposed to them and will offer fuil support 10 fighting for socialist democrac!.
The interestsof workers and drapitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has only treated market, has created politics. Thus we fight tor working class unit! scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, and Asia.
In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal IrilsA Iroous letting the Irish people determine their oun future.
The C'ommunist parties in Furope are in crisis. deither 'Eurocommunist' the pro-Moscon wings have any meaningful siralegy lor oerthron of the capitalis/ state. Nen revolutionars socialise parties are necessar! than hefore. Conditions lodas more fasourable than preceding thrse derades. But such parties cau onis be rejecling sectarianism and secing internal democracs not as a luxury hut asa vital necessits. This means the right to organise factions and tendencies.
Ii you agree with these principles and want involved activities hy Socialist ('hallenge sunoorter in vour area. filt in the term belom and send it to us.
intere led in sanctions imposed But character, THE HYPOCRISY of imperialism over the Afghan crisis knows no bounds. In the middle of President Carter's attempt to get United Nations' against Iran, after publicly bemoaning his inability to take military action because of the reaction it would provoke, the US government opposed the Soviet invasion on the ground of 'self-determination of nations'.
is really worrying the Department is their inability to turn back the this force to use Diego Garcia.
repressive and government.
But these facts should not blind us to the serious situation that has resulted from the Soviet invasion. Nothing indicated that the Islamic guerillas in the country had definitively proved a serious threat to the government in Kabul. If the rightists had gained political support it was purely because of the brutal methods of the Amin If the Soviet rulers represented the interests of Imperialism is the main enemy.
Afghanistan — sixty years ago. be tantamout to being in favour of the victory of the rightist forces and the reversal of any gains by the Afghan workers and peasants in the last decades.
* See pages 4-5 for Britain's intervention into