tory (which is far more exciting than kings and Queens)
I am disgusted that I was not taught my own history. For example we are taught about castles and palaces as if they erected themselves and not of those who built them. IN THE NINETIES, millions of women and men have taken part in mobilisations against the evils of capitalism and the bureaucratic dicta torships. This reflects the fact that humanity face widening dangers. Ecological, military, social and economic devastation faces millions of people.
Many more people recognise the barbaric nature of capitalism. In a situation where the inability of the social democratic an communist parties to provide socialist solutions is becoming clearer, the task of creating new leaderships remains ahead.
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lence.
Soclalism must be under the control of ordinary people, democratic 1 pluralist, multi-party, feminist, ecologist, anti-militarist and internationa ist. It must abolish wage slavery and national oppression.
The working class is the backbone of unity among all the exploited and oppressed. The working class and its allies must uncompromisingl fight against capitalism and for a clear programme of action in order to gradually acquire the experience and consciousness needed to defeat capitalism at the decisive moment of crisis, The movements of women, lesbians and gay men, and black people to fight their particular forms of oppression make an essential contribution to the struggle for a different society. They are organised around the principle "None so fit to break the chains as those who wear them".
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As it happens our college has a restaurant which is open to the public and guess what? I and others on the course have to work in the evenings some nights up to 10.30pm. to wait on the public. We do not get paid for this because it is classed as "trainBy building simultaneously revolutionary organisations in each country Tim Briggstone (SO 22) makes the correct point that my recent article on section 28 didn't comment on work going on outside London. He is right to alert us to the fact that there are other bodies out there like the George House Trust. However, this organisation campaigns primarily around HIV issues. It does make the important link between HIV education, sex education in schools, and the climate of fear created by S28. But this does not invalidate my comment that the major London based campaigns, push mainly for what the Labour Government is prepared to concede (the age of consent), but place everything else on the back burner.
In this and my previous article | argue that Socialists should push on other issues which affect lesbians and gay men. Section 28 of course, but also "Gross Indecency", and employment law. A campaign for wholesale law reform is required, along the lines called for by LCLGR. You can get copies of information by post from LCLGR, PO Box 306, London N5. By joining, you get an excellent newsletter.
Mark Lewin, London We welcome readers' letters on any topic. Letters over 400 words may be cut for space reasons. Write to Socialist Outlook, PO Box 1109, London N4 2UU. email: [email protected] - mi