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Gerry Foley's article in Socialist Outlook capitalism has been restored in the CIS.

Various statistics can be quoted to demonstrate that this is not the case. One is the Military Industrial Complex. the 20% increase in investment for education ana tne continuation or tree education.

Panorama a few weeks ago showed that 90% of the farms are state owned and that thev provide free education. health care and the right to work.

On May Day the Russian Army carried the Red Flag - not something I've ever seen a bourgeois army doing. This illustrates that the army is part of the state apparatus which detena the workers state.

Foley fails to follow Trotsky who explained in the Transitional Programme We are on the web at HTTP://www.gn.apc.org/labournet/so le talks about Zyuganov representing a 'state capitalists who support Zyuganoy?

Imperialism was hostile to Zyuganov's increase state subsidies. He represents in my view a section of the bureaucracy based on Defence of Marxism'.

They want to keep their caste privileges and want to settle accounts with the layers of the bureaucracy who have enriched themselves over the past period. well as the working class, have suffered over the past period from the plundering of the workers state by the dominant layers.

The Communist Party have been calling for a coalition government. They Yeltsin to pick a third of the cabinet, Zyuganov a third and the other parties the same. This represents a very strong fear of a serious confrontation between these wings of hat when the bureaucracy went into crisis the bureaucracy, in which the working clas lifferent tendencies would emerge. Instead could come through the middle and overthrow the lot. They want rather to 'apitalist' tendency within the bureaucracy. develop a bonapartist figure who will This is not a class analysis. Where are the arbitrate between the different wings and create stability. Revolutionaries are in favour of bureaucracy as Trotsky explained in 'In But we would be in favour of destroying the rapacious elements through independent mass mobilisations. This could then be used as a somebodra to overnrow une rest or le They, as bureaucracy. Only if that is not possible would we give any support to these elements being destroyed by the Military Industrial Complex. The fight for the programme of political revolution must continue. wall Alan Barnett, Birmingham conditions and union rights. cadilisa. Nor, class. Trotsky. its own class rule. imperialism in Ireland and worldwide. has been if the dispute is hands. are also threatening to pull out of the port people, lesbians and gays or the national demands of people you see in Socialist Outlook, -representatives to attend the NDSC. ( gO I would like to sell Socialist Outlook.

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