Socialist Outlook 102 • May 25, 1996. UP AGAINST mass unemployment, rampant employers with savage anti-union laws, and a war on hard-won public services, the working class in Britain faces a real crisis - an avoidable crisis created by the historic failure of its official leadership. to maximise profits at the expense of the workers, has had determined, vanguard leadership by a brutal Tory high command. The weaken the resistance, allowing them to pick off isolated sections der, while ditching any pretence of being a socialist alternative. cent living standards, a clean environment, peace and democracy, fore the collapse of Stalinism, could these demands ever be sion of 'marxism' beloved by armchair academics, but the revolutionary tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky. elections or illusions of peaceful legislative change. to mobilise and unleash the power of the working class to dents, of youth - and of those fighting imperialism in Ireland and bians and gays or the national demands of people in Scotland, Ireland and Wales should be left to await revolution. The oppressed in which workers and the oppressed fight for their rights. issues such as racism and fascism - in which various left currents and want to join with us in the struggle for socialism, readers' ised, and get active! ¡• I want to know more about Socialist Outlook. #C I would like to sell SoOcialist Outlook.
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