In my view, many socialists in the USA were right to vote critically for Ralph Nader, the Green candidate, as president. Of course we should build a mass workers' party in the USA. However, a revolutionary electoral policy should be comprehensible at the level of the masses. Here in Britain, we supnor rench me abou Party with a revolutionary party, but we are sometimes faced with fringe candidates standing on a formally revolutionary platform, but who in practice have not even united much of the far left. We have rightly decided that these candidates are not relevant at the level of the masses, so we can safely ignore them and call for a Labour vote. While I would very much have preferred it if there Outlook The working class is the backbone of unity: among all the exploited and oppressed: The work- autonomy. ing class and its allies must compromisingly 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 The movements of women, lesbians and gay men, and black people to fight their particular forms of oppression make an es- in touch.
had been a serious socialist or labour candidate for US president, given that there was nob it was not unpucipled to vote for a radical petty bourgeois candidate like Nader. There were candidates from e.g. the Socialist Workers Party and the World Workers Party, but these were very marginal, the former got around 1% of Nader's vote. Can you imagine Gore supporters bothering to condemn the SWP for splitting the anti-Bush vote? Nader was in a different ball game, scoring. 10% of the vote in Alaska, and actually won in the town of Fairfield, Maine. Campbell MacGregor Glasgow sential 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".
The whole working class needs to fully commit itself to these struggles. Furthermore we fight for a strategic alliance between workers and these organisations -an alliance which respects their legitimate By building simultaneously revolutionary organisations in each country and a revolutionary International, we aim to guide and encompass the global interests of the workers and oppressed.
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