PLUTO_CRIME | Socialist Action 1983

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PEACE • JOBS The 1980 special conference — still Labour's goal the relation between parliament. mass struggle and the capitalist state.

Tony Benn's perspec tive is most decidedly not a 'parliamentarist' indeed of the most Terrestra things the present debates one perspective which is purely based on passing resolutions and simply parliamentary change is taken seriously any more. Socialism is based on an enormous trans fer of power into the hands of ordinary people - no on reinforcing the grip of the corridors of Whitehall, lne back rooms at West minster, or creating two hundred and fifty version. of the National Coal Board. Parliament The argument about Marxism and parliament is not about a universal right to vote. No-one who is a democratic socialist, or a Marxist, can believe creating society which does not nave a univelsa. franchise. Nor is political called political strategy of insurrectionism' - that is for children and not for a political current in the labour movement.

The question 1s one simple fact. When confronted with the violence ot the ruling class does the working class, and me labour movement, have the right to defend itself? Would it have been better or worse for humanity if the German working taken up arms and fought Hitler? Chilean workers crushed Pinochet? (And, on a lessel level, does a miners picket have the right to defend itself when attacked by the police - or is this an ex ample of 'lawlessness'?) To pose the question is in reality to answer it.

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MANY comrades on the left of the Labour Party are In fact, some EuroSocialist Action 4 May 1984 opportunity to reverse this capitalist means fighting

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