Tion rights.
New realism is the latest form taken by the politics of reformism, seeking no more than improved conditions within the framework of capitalist rule.
Socialist Outlook rejects reformism, not because we are against fighting for reforms, but because we know that the needs of the working class - for full employment, decent living standards, a clean environment, peace and democracy - can never be achieved under capitalism. to tackle Nor, as we argued long before the collapse of Stalinism, could these demands ever be achieved under the bureaucratically deformed workers states and degenerated USSR, whose regimes survived only by repressing their own working class We are a marxist current, based not on the brutish totalitarian parodies of state marxism, nor on the tame, toothless version of 'marxism' beloved by armchair academics, but the revolutionary tradition of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Trotsky.
Our socialist alternative is not based on parliamentary elections or illusions of peaceful legislative change. We fight to mobilise and unleash the power of the working class - the overwhelming majority of society - to topple the corrupt Every retreat and reactionary rule of capital and establish its own class rule.
We struggle against fragmentation by building solidarity, working to link and unite the various struggles of workers, tries world-wide. right wing. Name Address Phone Age. the unemployed, of women, of pensioners, of the black communities and ethnic minorities, of lesbians and gay men, of students, of youth - and of those fighting imperialism in Ireland and throughout the world. Socialist Outlook is above all an internationalist current, in solidarity with the Trotskyist Fourth International, which organises co-thinkers in 40 counSectarianism Unlike some other groupings on the British left, we do not believe a mass revolutionary party can be built simply by proclaiming ourselves to be one. Too often this degenerates into sectarian posturing and abstention from the actual struggle taking shape within the labour movement, playing into the hands of the Nor do we believe that the demands of women, black people, lesbians and gays or the national demands of people in Scotland and Wales should be left to await the outcome of a socialist revolu- tive!
O Please tell me more about Socialist Outlook • Yes, I want to become a Socialist Outlook supporter Send to Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU tion. The oppressed must organise themselves and fight now around their own demands, which are a part of the struggle for socialism.
But propaganda alone, however good, will not bring socialism. The fight for policies which can mobilise and politically educate workers in struggle, must be taken into the unions, the Labour Party and every campaign and struggle in which workers and the oppressed fight for their rights.
To strengthen this fight we press for united front campaigns on key issues such as fighting racism and fascism - in which various left currents can work together for common objectives while remaining free to debate their differences. If you agree with what you see in Socialist Outlook, and want to join with us in the struggle for socialism, readers' groups meet in towns across the country. Contact us now, get organised, and get acWANT YOUR event included? Send details by July 1 to What's Happening?, P.O. Box 1109, London N4 2UU. M11 INFORMATION stall 5.30pm-7.30pm Leytonstone Tube OPENING of Cities and Sustainable Development: Global Forum 1994 in Manchester tel: 061 234 3741 Fax: 061 234 3743 Sat 25 WHAT'S LEFT? summer conference with John Edmonds, Alan Simpson, Dawn Primorolo, John Prescott, Peter Hain, Barbara Castle and others Conway Hall Red Lion Square tickets £7/£5 from 'What's Left', Tribune, 308 Gray's Inn Road, WC1X 8DY McLIBEL day of action details 071 837 7557 MANCHESTER International Peace festival opens details: Olive or Linda on 061 234 3325 ANTI-Apartheid Movement Extraordinary General Meeting Foucault anniversary. conference 9.30am-5.30pm ULU Malet St WC1 details 071 809 5068 Mon 27 PROTEST opening of McLibel trial 9.30-11.30am High Court The Strand EC1 PERMANENT occupation? Israeli settlements and the threat to peace 7pm Friends House 173-177 Euston Road NW1 details: PSC 071 700 6192 Tuesday 28 SOCIALIST OUTLOOK discussion: Ireland: peace or capitulation? with Liam Mac Uaid 7.30pm Stationer's Park Comunity Centre Mayfield Road off Weston Park N8 Weds 29 END disruption of Kingsmead School! Lobby of Hackney Council 6pm Town Hall SCOTT Inquiry: More Questions Than Answers? with Lord Healey, Richard Norton-Taylor, Rosemary Hollis & John McNaughton 7pm Westminster Central Hall SW1 LEEDS Socialist Campaign Group public meeting with Micheal McGowan MEP, Alce Mahon MP and Alan Simpson MP 7.30pm Civic Hall Sat 2 PSYCHOLOGY POLITICS RESISTANCE founding conference 10am-5pm Aytoun Building (By Piccadilly BR) Manchester Metropolitan University workshops on gender, heterosexism eurocentrism & racism, institutional abuse Guest speakers from South Africa, psychiatry system tails: Lisa Denny 061 247 2535 OXFAM Global Village Fête 2pm-8pm Battersea Park Live music, International Co-operative day third world fair trade fair, Children's festival and Oxfam 5km run Sun 3 NOW WHAT? Midlands antifascist 'Sunday school' 10.30am-5pm Queen's Walk Comunity centre Nottingham details (0533) 550433 LIBERATION! meetings 11am-2.30pm, 3.00pm5.30pm London Tues 5 STOP the TUC Full Employment Conference 8.30am TUC Congress House Great Russell St WC1 details 071 387 8440/8436 ALTERNATIVE conference on Full Employment organised tion of Trades Councils 10am Conway Hall Red Lion Square WC1 DEFEND GUY'S hospital demonstrate 5.30pm outside the hospital opposite London Bridge station 'QUESTIONS the leadership candidates refuse to address' Socialist Campaign Group Network meeting 7.30pm Conway Hall Red Lion Square REBEL survivors movement De- Final night fiesta at last year's International Summer Camp. Be there! - see below Fri 8 - Sun 10 SOCIALISM and beyond Coference of Socialist Economists conference Leeds weekend ticket includes lunch: £30/£20/£10. Details 0532) 334507 or 334518 Sat 9 MINER'S GALA Durham Tues 12 SOCIALIST OUTLOOK discussion: Permanent Revolution. 8.00pm, Unicorn pub, Church Street, Manchester Thur 14 McLIBEL Support Campaign weekly meeting 6.30pm London Greenpeace 5 Caledonian Road London N1 details: Dan 071 223 5295 Fri 22 - Fri 29 INTERNATIONAL Youth Camp Arezzo Tuscany Italy All-in price £150 leaflets, posters and details from Liberation!, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU Mon 25 POSSIBLE date for passing of Criminal Justice Bill Tuesday 26 Socialist Outlook discusSOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 65, 25 June 1994, Page 15 sion: Racism & fascism: the politics of despair, with Tony Benson 7.30pm Stationer's Park Comunity Centre Mayfield Road off Weston Park N8 SOCIALIST OUTLOOK discussion: Democracy and the United Front. 8.00pm, Unicorn pub, Church Street, Manchester Sat 13 MARCH for British withdrawal from Ireland assemble 12.00 noon Kennington Park Oval Tube Thur 25-Mon 29 SOCIALIST OUTLOOK Summer School: ANALYSING RACISM AND FASCISM. Residential school in Aberystwyth, en suite rooms, plenaries, workshops and full social programme. £80/£30. Details from Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. WORLD day of action against McDonald's and National Free Speech day details 071 837 7557 ing work rota and nominating
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