Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions orter soriuons inat are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitalist class.
Socialist Challenge believes that the (wo vital lasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:
• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition lo class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should LOH-CALUSIVC grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views. cation begin 10 finite unified Creator democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, application of united front begin to be seen as an alternative DY thousands workers engaged in struggles.
Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:
The struggle for seeks to unite the •workers against the with that of other oppressed layers of society. - women, black people, LAYS struggling for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with necessary means the power of the cabilaust stare.
socialism will infinitely more democratic 3 than what exists in Britain today, with full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of 'socialism' in the USSR ard Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and will offer full support 10 all inose fighting for socialist democracy.
The interests of workers and •capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has only created market, il has created world politics. Thus we fight for working on scale. This unity will in the long