THIS WEEK Socialist Challenge carries a discussion article on socialists and empire.
hysteria. We have fought it tooth and nail, because we support those whom Thatcher represses. It is our moral duty as socialists.
the last theatrical fling of a dying colonial breed porary aversion trom dole queues negotiations begin can we all go back to the "real' class struggle at home?
We don't think so - and neither do the Tories know what internationalism means, but when I hear it I know it is a bad thing'. He understood that the nationalism, insularity and chauvinism of British socialism 1s our bosses' best defence. home unless they are defeated abroad.
- it is the cause of it pathological knee-jerk but proof that our ruling class is now more dependent on its overseas rule than ever before.
British socialists. Our rulers are weaker than ever betore. For three weeks our attention has been riveted by war But another issue is at stake. Is this military adventure - a lemand riots? When Stanley Baldwin, the Tory Premier, once said, 'I don't We will never defeat them at British imperialism isn't a diversion from our misery The Malvinas episode isn't a On the one hand this ofters great opportunities to Behind such measures an army they cannot withstand.
tionalism.
obstacle to socialist policies at home. The British left for the "important' business get rid of the bombs.
never carry out socialist policies.
to imperialism. If we link up with 700 million of our sisters and brothers abroad who also suffer under them, together we can make But it also shows the dangers. The right wing in the Labour Partv have made more ground in the last three weeks than in all of the last three years. The left's thinking has a fundamental flaw in it — its total lack of internaThis is not just a moral weakness. It is also the chief learly all of it — treats foreign policy as a socialist after thought: fine declarations tucked on the end of the agend of economic policy. But without a socialist foreign policy there can be no socialist policy. 'Jobs not Bombs' means we won't get jobs until we If it doesn't put the fight against Britain's world role at the centre of its preoccupations, the Labour Party can In this article, by Alan Freeman and Brian Grogan we aim to expose the errors behind the Labour left's approach 1913 portion of the United States, 1899-1980 ARGUMENTS for SOCIALISM 21219506 1955 1966 1965 9 Per capita Gross National Product as a pro. e FRANCE - SWEDEr ... GERMANY • ITALY - NETHERLANDS > UNITED KINGDOM 2000 Fig 4