Even to many International Socialist members, the perspectives of their National Committee printed im Socialist Worker of 21 September, and the editorial in internarionai Socialism 71-for the IS conference will appear as bankrupt and shocking.
Admitting the existence of the big gest political, social, and economic crisis in Britain for decades, they blandly recommend that the revolutionary left. turn from concer with global political questions to the minutiae of local fragmented economic struggles.
They compound this by insisting on the classic reformist split between the fight for the immedite economic issues and making propaganda about the crisis and the need for socialist solutions.
estate agents 108/9 Nowhere in thie Socialst Horker article oe in stournal do they even mention Ireland, This despite the col lapse at imperialest strategy an irelan: and the grave toat to the British working class heightened by the interventson of Powell on Ireland.
This political disarras is not new. In March, after the election of the Labour government, the 15 said this may mean that revolutionaries are isolated within the movement for a period... should not worry us too much. It provides us with an opportunity to arguc our positions clearly and patiently to other proups of workers and to prepare to reap the henetits when the honeymoon ends"
This meant that the IS tailed benind those initiatives which rather than into more prominence than for a long A revolutionary proup by delinition should be in the vanguard of cents It should be the first to lasach thos campaiens and take those initiatives which will hegin to challenge the hold which called the 5 May Chale demo despite the need to put up a fight againet the reformists' attempts to put it off They had only a taken presence on the 15. June anti-Nt action which HALL CAAERS LIVE ICE They agree that it woull be a gross -That period of fall in the class struggle* But instead of dealing with the key PREDICT PROTES WHETHE CONCEDEY continue: In fact the actual level of economic struggle in the factories has been higher than in the past two years? VS33L equation berween the trade union and economic strugele and the class strupple. This leads to the error of believing that the working class will he broken from reformism facsory by factory.
retormists or. rather. how the boutpoisic with the help of the reformists. actually domnate the working class 'The ruling class exercises its domination af the terer of the whole of society and the mate Iticat this level that the revolutionaries will have to have an impact if they are to he al all soccessful.
for such revolutionary interventions character that it is undermining the insticutions like Parliament and the Labour Party -institutions through which the bourgoosic dominates the working class.
Revolutionaries must take every measure they can to sharpen that crisis Ironically the IS present the fight against unemployment in this way. Areung for nationalisation and workers" control they explain this means a fight to compel the employers and their state questions. It is also a fight that can begin to raise the most important ques tions about the control of society as a whole. Clearly this cannot be limited to one lactory, But this approach must be Socialist Hut IS were not cren at the meeting IS reveal where their confusion lies They thus make a simplistic direct This locally misunderstands how the The tiane has never heen more ripe The economic crisis is now of such a to obey the workers' dictate over certain extended. H Labour i re-elecied theie