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HITLOOK socialist OUTLOOK Throw out Tory racists! Post code INDIAN cinema rarely strays from formula plots of tragic love, song and dance routines and action-packed sequences.
So when a film comes along combining me prereouisites of box office success. with an original script, the making of the film is often as big as its subject.
Mani Ratnam turns from Kashmiri militancy in the blockbuster Roja (Rose) to the Hindu-Muslim riots which overwhelmed India's commercial capital in December 1992 and January and March 1993.
A Hindu man and Muslim woman defy their families and society to marry one another.
It is difficult enough coping with their own problems when they are engulfed in the violence following the destruction of a mosque by Hindu zealots and riots against Muslims.
The important political points implicit or otherwise in this film are that riots were not spontaneous but carefully orchestrated by fas\ 2UU.
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The capltalist class, driven by its own crisis, and politically united by its need to maximise profits at the expense of the workers, has had determined, vanguard leadership by a brutal Tory high command.
The Tory strategy has been to shackle the unions, and to fragment and weaken the resistance, allowing them to pick off Isolated sections one at a time.
In response, most TUC and Labour leaders have embraced the deleatist polltics of 'now realism', effectively total surrender, while ditching any pretence of beIng a socialist alternative. Every retreat encouraged the offensive against jobs, wages, conditions and union rights.
Now realism is the latest form of reformism, seeking. only improved conditions within ca We reject reformism, not bacause we are against reforms, but know that full decent Iting clean enviro and democracy, be achieved under capitalism.
Nor, as we argued long before the collapse of Stalinism, could mands ever be t der the bur deformed i and dor rated USSR, whose regimes survived only by repressing the workIng class.
We are a mandist current, based not on the brutIsh totalitarian parodies of state marxiam, nor on the tame, toothless varsion of SOCIALIST OUTLOOK No. 83. May 13 1995, Page UP AGAINST mass unemployment, rampant employ ers 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 fallure of its official leadership.
tionary rule of capital and establish its own class rule. We struggle against fragmentation by building solidarity, to unite the various struggles of workers, the unemployed, of women, of pensioners, of the black communities, of lesbians and gay men, of students, of youth - and of those fighting imperialism in Ireland and worldwide. Socialist Outlook is above all an internationalist current. in solidarity with the Trotskylst Fourth International, which organises In over 40 countries. Unlike some other groups on the British left, we do not belleve a mass revolutionary party can be built simply by proclaiming ourselves to be one. This degenerates into sectarian posturing and abstention from struggles in the labour movement, playing into right wing hands. Nor do we belleve that the demands of women, black people, lesbians and gays or the national demands of people in ScotUSE WE land and Wa les should be left to await revolution. The darus, a must organise nt, peace themselves and fight now can never for their demands, which are a part of the struggle for But propaganda alone, SOCIALIST OUTLOOK