Poland: 'Solidarity Union leaders give a press conference SOCIALIST Challenge stands for unilateral nuclear disarmament and the immediate, unconditional withdrawal NATO. We oppose general calls for 'world Or West'. We don't think socialists in the USSR should oppose the 'Russian bomb'.
are quite different.
nature. It's a matter of life and death for capitalist profits to defend overseas investment and markets. This is what lies behind the invasion of Iran, and the propping up of dictatorial regimes in Central Acica American imperialism threatening war against the Soviet Union or China. But in the long. run the restoration of capitalism in these countries is exactly what the imperialists are working to achieve evitable unless we disarm our capitalist rulers and establish a socialist democracy.
privileged bureaucracy caste represented by the Kremlin has usurped political power from the working class. But the economy of the USSR is based on state planning. There is no drive for profits leading to aggression and exthat the USA lags behind the Soviet Union in nuclear weaponry.
myth was exploded by US defence experts. Possession of nuclear weapons by the USSR makes war less likely not bureaucrats to halt the arms race. against war and imperialism is not simply military hardward but the militant mobilisations of the masses.
defeated the most powerful military nation in history.
the masses around the world the defeat imperialism. Thei policy of peaceful coexistence undermines the success of anti-capitalist mass movements.
monstrous repression of all dissent do not present a glowing example of socialism to the workers in the West or the Third World.
USSR must go hand in hand with political hostility to the Kremlin bureaucrats and a perspective of political revolution to overthrow them.
tradictory, as was claimed by George Kerevan (Letters, 1 Soviet nuclear weapons industry is the prime material base for the military wing of the Soviet bureaucracy.' power over the working class.
the Soviet Union, far from 'striking at the privileged caste in the Soviet Union', would prepared a massive victory for imperialism. It would further aid attempts at capitalist restoration.
justified. Socialists would argue today for its reduction and peasants.
of Britain disarmament 'East and The social and economic systems of East and West The capitalist economic system is expansionist by expand may not be immediately War and capitalism go hand in hand. War is inThe Soviet Union is not a socialist democracy. The The possession of nulcear weapons by the Soviet Union is overwhelmingly defensive. It is simploy not true Even. in last week's Thames TV documentary this But it would be fatal to rely on the Moscow The best defence In Vietnam, for example, a badly-armed population The Soviet bureaucrats do not use the active suport of The special privileges of the bureaucracy and its That is why defence of the military capcity of the These two aspects of socialist policy are not conOctober). It is quite wrong of George to argue: 'The The power of the Soviet bureaucrats, including the military wing, derives from its monopoly of political The call for the renunciation of nuclear weapons by The vast defence spending of the USSR is totally unto raise the standards of living of the RUssian workers A revolutionary government which did this could call imperialism's bluff on arms limitation and expose who are the real war-mongers. Maybe this iw what George was driving at. But it is not the same as calling for Soviet Socialist Challenge 9 October 1980