Dayschool: Internationalism and the Dictatorship of the Proletariat

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Revolutionary Communist Tendency •

DAYSCHOOL

INTERNATIONALISM AND THE DICTATORSHIP OF. THE PROLETARIAI

Saturday 5 August 1978 10.00 am -5.00 pm

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During 1978 capital has heightened its offensive on the living standards and democratic rights of the working class. Continuing unemployment, a ten per cent reduction in real wages last year and a succession of bans on recent street marches illustrate the effect of this attack. At British Leyland 12,500 jobs are to be 'phased out' and 40,000 jobs are to go at British Steel. Redundancies, productivity deals and speed-ups have been negotiated throughout industry and worse is to follow.

For three years the official labour and a fourth year is just around the corner. The failure cuts in social services to prevent acceptance of the loss of jobs in industry. Even the most militant movement has accepted the Social Contract, expenditure has gone hand in hand with the failure to prevent massive sections of the working class are in trouble. Having once rejected productivity deals, the miners are now allowing them to go ahead. Today productivity in the mining industry is reaching record levels while the number of fatal accidents has doubled. These setbacks reflect the political domination of the bourgeoisie over labour movement. Appeals to nationalism and national sacrifice have not been countered with an independent class perspective. As long as the working class believes that its interests coincide with those of other classes it will accept austerity measures in the interest of the nation. The all-class approach that prevails in the trade union movement means that many workers see the bourgeois state as the means to solve the crisis. The state is seen as a neutral arbiter rather than a class institution for the dofence of capital. In this way the interests of the working class are subordinated to the dictates of the bourgeois state.

Support for the attempts of the bourgeois nation state to beat the crisis leads to the acceptance of some form of social contract. The left haggles about the terms of the Social Contract - it demands that the stnte carries out "progressive policies' - but as long as it supports a national solution to the crisis bourgeois : "terests will prevail. The left's radical nationalist views divide the working class in the face of a concerted assault by the ruling class.

Ehe Communist Party asks the state to impose import controls on selected foreign goods. Similarly, trade unionists at British Leyland's Speke plant have demanded that the company should close down its factory in Belgium rather than throw British workers out on the dole queues. a The divisive character national reformism is shown in the British labour movement's attitude to Ireland. There has been little trade union sympathy the national liberation struggle of the Irish people. The right of the

British state to oppress the Irish has been accepted by all sections of society. For the Revolutionary Communist Tendency the struggle for working class independence must mean attacking British imperialism's domination of Ireland. To give effective solidarity to the Irish pecple is to challenge the Sritish state. This struggle provides the basis fer Building an antioe The success of our perspective dopends on ideologically arming the proletariat with Marxism. Marxism must be turned into a living force in the labour movement. An offensive must be wagad against the national-reformist views that dominate the working class today. Our dayschool represents an aspect of the struggle to forge an independent current in the working class.

What causes the crisis? How is it that the Social Contract has been accepted for so long? Why has the British left failed to build a movement against British imperialism in Irelond? Is it true that British troops play a peace-keeping role in the Six Counties? How can we build a movement that will challenge the role of the British state in Ireland and at the same time lay the foundations for a rovolutionary party in Britain? These are of the questions that will be discussed. Clarification of such issues is a necessity if revolutionaries are to confront bourgeois ideas in the working class, for Marxist theory is not an optional extra for the labour urge all those who are serious about constructing a revolutionary party to attend the dayschool and take a full part in the discussion.

The dayschonl will be divided into two sessions: Mornino Session 10.00 am - 1.00 pm Afternoon Session 2.00 pm - 5.00 pm 'The recession and the working class The Recession and the working cLass British Imperialism and the Irish 'British imperialism and the Irish Crisis response' - Frank Richards crisis' - Mary Masters What are the tasks facing revolution- Why has there been no effective aries in today's conditions? solidarity movement in Britain? What should British revolutionaries do?

There will be two hours for discussion after each introduction.

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NQ2 REVOLUTISNARY COMMUNIST PAPERS NQ3 British Imperialism and the Trish Jhe Recession and the Working Class Crisis Response No Equivocation!

This issue provides the first Marxist This issue examines the unfolding of analysis of the impact of the world the crisis in Britain during the past recession on Ireland - North and South• decade. It analyses reformism and shows It explains the nature of British why the working class has accepted the oppression today and reaffirms the Social Contract. It explains the revolutionary position on national failures of the left and points the self-determination• way forward for a revolutionary working class leadership. Price: 50p (plus 15p postage) Price: 50p (plus 15p postage) Make cheques and postal orders payable to RCT Association and send to:

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