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We reject reformism, not because we are against reforms, but because we know that full employment, decent living standards, a clean environment, peace ano 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 the 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.
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that Billy Hutchinson's claim to be a socialist deheld a successful public serves to be debated. forum on the future of This is purest fudge. Milisocialism on 9 May with tant Labour did not debate over 80 people attending Billy Hutchinson.
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International Viewpoint should note an error in They ex- the article on Britain. Militant Labour won a total of around 9,000 votes in council elections. In Glasgow they won 6 per cent of votes. After editing, the IV article suggests that Militant Labour gained 6 per cent of the vote across all of Scotland! This is not the case. Duncan Chapel, London N4 ----= £50! You can have as many chances as you want, with
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