Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders uf the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers hut of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challengi believes that the tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in oppositior:
class-collahorationism in the Photo: JUDE WOODWARD (Soclalist Challenge) labour movement. These should non-exchsive grouping together militants holding a wide range of polifical views.
• To begin to light for the creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can. through application al tactics. vegin to ne alternative by Tantates workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle seeks unite the fight of workers the with that of other oppressed layers of seriel! — women, black people, gays struggling for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creafing new organs of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
fur socialism 4 HI • intinitely more democratic I than what exist in Britain today. political parties and currents that der not take up arms against the socialise state. The Stalinist models of "socialism' in the look and Fastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of werhers ihroughout the We are opposed to them and will ofter tell support to all those lighting for socialist democrac!.
The interesss of workers and r'apitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism only created a marhet. i1 has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an scale. This unity will in the long run be decisise in defeating hoth the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, and Asia.
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 Furope are in crisis. the 'Farocommunist"
the pro-Moscan wings have any meaninglul strategy for merthrow of the capitalist state.
dest revolutionary socialise parties are More Conditions lasourable than over the preceding shrer decades. Bur such parules Lan he huill rejecting sectarianism and secing internal democracy not de a luxur!
but as a vital necessits, This means Reports by Jude Woodward, Geoffrey Sheridan, and Jonal