Internationalist campaign ogainst US-UN Gulf War ofainst iraq led to lunch of fortnightly "Socialist Outlook" between various countries, say. ing "all workers are the same". But workers in different countries working for the same multinational company need to find • common strategy to unite against factory speed-up.
This becomes as capital because more and Woe onsco on a trans-national basis, as trade blocks such as the European Union and NAFTA become more important.
This common interest of workers, and the need to organRise internationally, was recognised by Karl Marx in the inaugu. ration of the International Working Men's (sic) Association In 1864. Ever since revolutionary soSupport for the Fourth International is fundamental. Through genuine democratic discussion, based on an experience, we strengthen our understanding clalists have campaigned against their "own" ruling classes—in the two inter-imperialist world wars; for solidarity with social. Ists and anti-fascists in Spain during the revolution; in suport of anti-Imperialist forces Ighting for national liberation ir Vietnam and elsewhere; and, more recently, for international solidarity in defence of a multi-ethnic Bosnia in ex-Yugoslavia.
sity to organise across national boundaries means that we have to build a world-wide organisation of Sociasts.
An international which starts from conditions in one country, or even group of similar coun tries, is inadequate.
Socialist Outlook 100 • April 6, 1996.