Workers' Liberty 28, February 1996

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Articles: Breaking the pattern of defeat The crisis in Britain's biggest union Firefighters move towards national action The fruits of New-Realism Organising the rank-and-file Download PDF

Lessons of the Liverpool docks strike Download PDF

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« Nous ne sommes pas un parti gouvernemental, nous sommes un parti d'opposition inflexible [...]. Nous ne réalisons pas nos tâches [...] par l'intermédiaire des gouvernements bourgeois [...], mais exclusivement par l'éducation des masses, par l'agitation, en expliquant aux travailleurs ce qu'il faut défendre et ce qu'il faut jeter bas. Une telle 'défense' ne peut pas donner des résultats immédiats mirobolants. Mais nous n'y prétendons pas. Nous ne sommes pour le moment qu'une minorité révolutionnaire. Notre travail doit viser à ce que les travailleurs sur lesquels nous avons de l'influence...

In these modern times of “global capitalism”, “global communication” and “global culture” the one thing that’s supposed to have disappeared forever is the idea of international working class solidarity. It might not be fashionable enough for the world-wide Net but it’s making a comeback nonetheless. The occasion: the Liverpool dockers strike. Unable to spread their dispute in this country because of the Tories’ viciously restrictive anti-union laws, which rule out all forms of solidarity action, the Liverpool portworkers have had to appeal for solidarity action from dockers world-wide. The...

"The Communists do not form a separate party opposed to other working-class parties. They have no interests separate and apart from those of the proletariat as a whole. They do not set up any sectarian principles of their own by which to shape and mould the proletarian movement... The Communists are, practically, the most advanced and resolute section of the working-class parties of every country, that section which pushes forward all others; on the other hand, theoretically, they have over the great mass of the proletariat the advantage of clearly understanding the line of march, the...