official leadership.
Socialist Outlook exists to build a new type of working class leadership, based on class struggle and revolutionary socialism.
The capitalist 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 defeatist politics of 'new 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.
New realism is the latest form of reformism, seeking only improved conditions crisis an avoidhistoric failure of its corrupt and reactionary rule mentation by building soliunemployed, of women, of communities, of lesbians ing imperialism in Ireland current, in solidarity with groups on the British left, degenerates into sectarian from struggles in the labour black people, lesbians and when it favoured withdrawal. and debating with other who The policy of a united Ireland adopted in the 1980s also [Irish Committee for a Marxist Programme, section of the port British troops while Kevin action. Let them sit aside from ment orientation and launched the real world if they so wish, new TOM branches arranged amongst themselves. Militant Sinn Fein speakers at May part of the struggle for socialber of joint Trades Council 1st conse.
Niall Mulholland, ing a Labour Movement con- Militant Labour, be the first duty of Britsih soBernie Hynes, REPLYING to my critiLeicester cism of their platform for the Progressive Unionist Defence of Party, Niall Mulholland of Militant Labour says that Militant/UVF you can share a plattorm with someone without endorsing their views, and front forum If Militant Labour are planning to campaign for a socialist party but are unable to distinguish between those who stand for such unity and the murderous opponents of it, cialism and put genuine workthey do with other socialist orOur offer of debate stands. friends from the PUP onto the strate how to respond to these manue or socialsin. Programme, Belfast International READERS of the May 'COMMUNITY Care' is an important issue for socialist to take up, as Pauline Bradley [SO 85] usefully points out.
This is one of the issues being taken up by Psychology Politics Resistance. PPR was founded last year at a 150strong Manchester conference addressed by radical psychologists from Barcelona, Cape Town and Sarajevo as well as by activists in the psychiatric services 'users' movement.
We link up with activists in psychiatry, therapists and Pocatonal psychologists. We are building a network which will offer resources to those on the sharp end of psychology.
The second issue of our newsletter had a direct mailing of over 500. PPR is growing fast. There is a women's group, which meets in Manchester, and a London group meeting regularly which has been active around the government's oppressive 'care' and punishment in the community legislation.
Anyone who has anything to do with psychology and is concerned about the abuse of power in its theories and practices can contact me an I will send them the latest PPR Write to PPR, Dept. of Psychology, Manchester Metropolitan University, Hathersage Road, Manchester M13 OJA.
Plan Parker, Manchester --7 oturn to PO Box 1109, London, N4 2UU.