UP AGAINST mass unemployment, rampant employers 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.
Socialist Outlook exists to build a new type of working class leadership, based on class struggle and revolutlonary 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, 30010 to me nane weaken the resistance, allowing them to plek off isolated sections one at a time.
In response, most TUC and Labour leaders have embraced the defeatist polltics of new realism', effectively total surrender, while ditching any pretence of beIng a socialist alternative. Every retreat encouraged the offensive against jobs. lon rights.
Now realism is the latest form of reformism, seeking only improved conditions We reject reformism, reforms, but because we decent living standards, a and democracy, can never be achleved under capitalIsm.
Nor, as we argued long before the collapse of Stalinism, could these deder the bureaucratically working class to topple the corrupt and reactionary rule oi capital and esta slah as own class rule.
We struggle against fragmentation by bullding solldarity, to unite the various struggles of workers, the unemployed, of women, of pensioners, of the black communities, of lesblans and gay men, of students, of youth - and of those fightIng imperialism in Ireland and worldwide.
Socialist Outlook is above all an internationalst current, in solldarity with the Trotskyist Fourth International, which organises in over 40 countries.
Unlike some other we do not belleve a mass revolutionary party can be bullt simply by proclaiming AUGUST ourselves to be one. This degenerates into sectarian Sat 5 from struggles in the labour movement, playing into right wing hands.
Nor do we belleve that Sun 8 the demands of women. black people, lesblans and mands of people in ScotSquare. should be left to await revolution. The oppressed must Tues 8 organise themselves and ASLEF rail strike fight now for their deSat 12 mands, which are a part of the struggle for socialism.
But propaganda alone, however good, will not bring socialism. The fight for policies which can mobiSunday 6 August Bosnia march will be larger than July demo' NO JUSTICE? no peacel national demonstration called by Joy Gardner and Brian Douglas campaions. Meet 12 noon Embankment tube. BOSNIA Solidarity campaign demonstration Hyde Park, Marble Arch tube Frl 25 2.00pm for march to Tratalgar Sat 25 9000. SOUTH African women's day commenmoration rally 11.00am Praxis Centre. Pott Street Bethnal Green. tickets £5/C3. Detaikis: 0171 924 9033 Weds 23 - Mon 28 SOCIALIST Outlook Summer School Aberystwyth. Send your £35 (waged). £15 (unwaged) deposit now to 'Socialist Outlook Summer School, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. ASLEF rail strike SUPPORT Guy's hospital 12 noon -- 6pm King's Stairs Gardens, Jamacia Road, Bermondsey. Details: 0171 327 SUPPORT THE RAIL STRIKERS :ND SEPTEMBER Sat 9 ASLEF rail strike IRELAND and the trade unions conference called by Manchester TUC. Tues 12 ASLEF rail strike Sat 18 ERNEST Mandel memorial rally, subject to confirmation. 6pm Conway Hall, Red Lion Square. WC1. Speakers include: United Secretariat of Fourth International, Charlie van Gelderen, Sat 23 September LINDMINES day of action deatils phone/lax 01296 632056. Sat 30 FACE demonstration against education cas conco OCTOBER Frl 13-Sun 15 AFRICA in the world Manchester civic celebration. Details Simon Katzenellenbogen on 0161 275 3112/ tax 275 SOCIALIST OUTLOOK 3098.
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