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', effectively 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 unsurvived 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 Trotskv.
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 pro- 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, the unemployed, of women, of pensionSat 21 BUILD a Wapping Union! March for trade union rights assemble 9.45am Tower Hill tube, march to rally on green opposite News International. Called by NUJ. erington. Socialist Outlook sellers meet 12.00 noon at Platt Lane entrance. Details: 0171 609 1743. CLAUSE 4 campaign National Steering Committee Manchester. SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 75. 7 January 1995, Page 15
Canterbury Road, London NWG. Sat 18 WELFARE State Network working conference on benefits at University of London Union, Malet