Facing mass unemployment, rampant employers equipped with savage anti-union laws, and a war on hard-won education, health and welfare services, the working class in Britain faces a real crisis - an avoidable crisis created by the historic failure of its official leadership.
Socialist Outlook exists to fight for a new type of working class leadership, based on the politics of class struggle and revolutionary socialism, to tackle this crisis.
The capitalist class, driven and politically united by its own crisis, its requirement to maximise profits at the expense of the workers, has been given determined, vanguard leadership by a brutal class-war Tory high command.
The Tory strategy has been to shackle the unions with legislation, and to fragment and weaken the resistance of the working class and oppressed, allowing them to pick off isolated sections one at a time, using the full powers of the state.
In response, most TUC and Labour leaders have embraced the defeatist politics of 'new realism', claiming total surrender on every front, while ditching any pretence that they offer a socialist alternative. Every retreat and concession they have made to the employers and the government has simply fuelled and encouraged the offensive against jobs, wages, conditions and unJULY 9100 Thurs 28 JUSTICE for Joy Gardner - End racist deportation laws. WREATH-LAYING in memory of Joy Gardner 11.30 Topstield Close. London N8 and 1.30 Home Office, Queen Ann's Rd, 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. 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 marxistcurrent, 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 effectively pro- mobilise and unleash the power of the working class - the overwhelming majority of society - to topple the corrupt 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, Langford Lane, ford 12noon Sell Off. Assemble SW1. Joy Gardner Campaign, 081 880 Sat 30 RMT Signal workers corn pub, Church demonstration. Assemble 12.30 Grafton Weds 3 Place, outside Euston station. March to Camden Centre DECORATE the prison gates! Demonstrate London N7 NAME.. Address Post code..
tries world-wide. right wing. Name Address Phone Age. outside Campsfield BUILDING solidarity immigration prison, with the signal workers. Speakers: Kidlington, near Ox- Jeremy Corbyn and RMT executive member BIRMINGHAM UCW March against the Post Weds 10 1pm Victoria Square NO MORE Divided Families! Linda and Dexter have a right to family life! demonstrate 10am outside adjudicators office SOCIALIST OUTLOOK Government Buildings discussion: Democ- Clay Lane Yardley Birracy and the United mingham details West Front. 8.00pm, UniMidlands Anti-deportation campaign 021Street, Manchester 551 4518 or 523 0580 Sat 13 SMTUC Meeting 7.30 MARCH for British Red Rose Club, 129 withdrawal from IreSeven Sisters Road, land assemble 12.00 noon Park outside Im24 ISSUES: BRITAIN £17; rest of the world £22 (surface)
(Air mail rates Australasia, Japan, China £38, rest of the world £30) 12 ISSUES: BRITAIN £9, rest of the world £12 (Air mail rates Australasia etc £20, rest of the world £16) 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. 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!
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..Phone .. Send to Subs, 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 acand UNISON members threatened with deportation 7.30pm Manchester Town Hall All night vigil outside immigration appeal court 9.30pm on Aldine House New Bailey St Salford Weds 7 MASS PICKET of the immigration appeal court 9am-10am Aldine House New Bailey St Salford WORLD day of action against McDonald's and National Free Speech day details 071 837 7557
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