are so firmly tied to the social contract and the defence of the British Parliament.
Because the 'lefts' are unable to fight their own ruling class they need a social contract which will ensure the cooperation of capital and labour. They have no alternative to capitalist forms of rule and share a touching faith in the intrinsic democratic nature of British capitalism. So they are forced to defend its Parliament against the 'Brussels bureaucrats' who might interfere with their efforts to legislate their own brand of soicalism through Westminster.
Therefore all the anti-Marketeers can present is a defence of a system that everyone can see is sick and ailing. They offer an isolated, declining capitalist Britain sandwiched between the US and European multi-nationals. Despite their majority they are unable to use it for fear of 'splitting' the labour movement. Parliamentarians to the last, they have allowed the democratic decisions of the mass organisations to be overridden by the Cabinet.
LISTS DEMONSTRATE AGAINST THE EEC IKET LONDON Sat. 31 May 2.00pm, Hyde Park, Speakers Corner ROPER unemployment. will be used in its reverse way. at an international level. The problems that confront the working class will be presented in a new and to a certain extent more disadvantageous way. Firstly Wilson will have successfully appealed over the heads of the working class movement to impose anti-working class policies. He may well try to repeat this on incomes policy or Secondly, the capitalists will try to move towards international state-like institutions which can more adequately serve their needs. The old nationalism which has been so deeply rooted in the workers' movement, and which the capitalist class used as an ideological weapon when they were constructing the nation state, Previously the ruling class used nationalism to link the working class to its imperialist adventures as it built its empires and raped the colonial world. Now as it confronts the working class from its own much more centralised internationalist position, it will try to use the old nationalism of the working class and its parties to keep the latter firmly in the ghetto of national politics. It will try and keep the working class in Europe divided and will attempt to exploit the organisational weakness of the working class on an international scale. With the exception of the small forces of the Fourth International there is not one organisation that attempts to unify workers struggles ing class will have to oppose the capitalists. This will mean more than ever taking up practical issues of workers' solidarity within the BEC Links must be established at every level within the workers' movement. This means that a big emphasis must be placed on the building of international workers' committees in the multi-national combines, and working towards a European Congress of Labour.
It also means reiection of any and all forms of incomes policy under capitalism; for a sliding scale of wages; and the nationalisation - without compensation-of all firms creating redundancies. It involves campaigning across the European labour movement for withdrawal from NATO; building solidarity and support for all workers' struggles inside the EEC, and extending the movement for troops out of Ireland into all the organisations of the European working class.
The Fourth International pledges itself to these international tasks. But it cannot be a substitute for the mass organisations of the working class, which themselves must be brought into action against the Europe of the bankers and the big trusts. The Fourth International will therefore work with all those forces in the workers movement who want to create a workers alternative to a capitalist Europe and who are prepared to build real international solidarity of the workers against