alternative thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for seeks in unite the fight of workers with that of other oppressed layers of society - women, black people. gays struggling liberation. This socialism can only be achiered by creating new organs of power and defeating with necessary means the power of the capitalist state.
Our socialism •than what exists in Britain socialisil Thatcher's bosses their THE Tory press is waxing lyrical about Margaret re-negotiating annual payments to the Common Market. Under of this agreement Britain will pay something like £900m less to EEC funds over the next year. The controversy over payments to the Market stems from the increasing conflict between member states in a period of economic crisis.
In order to get into the mọn Agricultural Policy in exchange for equal access to European markets for manufactured goods. But under the terms of the agricultural policy small, inefficient farmers are subsidised in then, that everyone except the West Germans. order to keep food prices at a reasonably even level throughout the market. Britain's efficient farming meant that British capitalism was effectively sub sidising small farmers in Italy and France.
In a period of relative affluence, the British Treasury might have considered this a price worth paying. But today, with a massive deficit on public spending, this has become a nonsense. Britain i one of the poorest nations in the EEC — in th same league as bankrupt Italy, not the same league as West Germany and France. It seemed absurd Britain should be paying more than But this conflict highlights one of the funhas • sabotaged moves reason for hating Margaret Thatcher. damental features of captialist economic crisis — that each national capitalism will try to solve its problems at the expense of the others. It is this, rather than any political shortsightedness, which towards monetary and political unity in West Europe and left the ardent Europeans like Jenkins and Heath high and dry.
It is the European working class that will pay the bill for letting the British Treasury off the hook. Part of the package deal is that food prices will go up by 5 per cent throughout the Market. Every European worker will now have a material Photo: PAUL HIGHFIELD (Socialist Challenge)
He helped link the health cuts fight to"the steel and coal closures, may and said recently that the labour leaderships. WaN tremendously worried by the failure South Wales, and willing to support insuch as the south Wales Youth Unemployment March which would help to organise the fightback. Pavnter. veteran of the hunger marches and ex-South Wales paid a glowing adequate tribute to Dai at his packed funeral, provided in the South Wales labour was a .member of the Communist Party until he resigned six years ago, and had a great respect for the far left. But he was seriously con OuT divisions and fragmentation. The best tribute that Try socialis