workers have come up against a national leadership that will not lead a fight.
The same story is repeated in many parts of the globe, sometimes leading to catastrophic consequences. 'In all countries the proletariat is racked by a deep disquiet. The multimillioned masses again and again enter the road of revolution. But each time they are blocked by their own conservative bureaucratic machines."
In the advanced capitalist countries it is the leaderships of the traditional workers' organisations which act as a barrier to socialist advance. 'The orientation of the masses is determined first by the objective conditions of
WAYNE EDGINGTION decaying capitalism, and second, by the treacherous politics of the old workers' organisations, explains the transitional programme.
But to challenge these leaderships, the revolutionary marxists must reject sectarianism. In the section entitled 'Against Sectarianism, the text explains that 'under the influence of the betrayal by the historic organisations of the proletariat, certain sectarian moods and groupings of various kinds arise... Attheir base lies a refusal to struggle for partial and transitional demands, ie for the elementary interests and needs of the working masses, as they are today... They propose