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Socialist Action is a political organization of workers, students, and activists that fights in the interests of the working class every day of the year.

Members of Socialist Action play leading roles in the fight against U.S. intervention in Central America and are active participants in the fight for racial and sexual equality.

Socialist Action members and supporters are part of the developing fightback by organized workers against capitalist austerity and takebacks.

Socialist Action stands in solidarity with the struggles of working people throughout the world. We support the revolutionary struggles for freedom in South Africa and in the rest of the capitalist world. We are opposed to the regimes of capitalism and their political agents wherever they may be.

At the same time we support the revolutionary struggle of Solidarnose for workers' democracy in Poland and similar struggles in the other misnamed "socialist" countries where capitalist profit has been abolished but the working class still does not rule society through its own democratic organizations.

We are uncompromising opponents of the self-serving Stalinist bureaucratic regimes, which obstruct the real development of socialism.

We champion the rights of all workers to democratically control their own organizations-from their unions, to their political parties, to the institutions of the state itself.

Socialist Action sees the extension of democracy everywhere, including into the workplace, as completely consistent with our socialist goals. Socialism, in our view, is a world system in which all basic social, political, and economic decisions are truly democratic and based on the principle of production for human needs, not profit.

Based on this strategic outlook, Socialist Action is organized on the principle of majority rule, with the rights of minorities guaranteed within that framework.

Socialist Action stands in political solidarity with the Fourth International, a world party founded by Leon Trotsky in 1938 that is committed to socialist revolution.

Today all of humanity is faced with a future clouded by hunger, disease, racism and sexism, unemployment, and the threat of nuclear destruction. These blights, including the threat of war and atomic annihilation, can be eradicated only by the elimination of capitalism and its replacementby a socialist society.

In the United States, for instance, farmers are going bankrupt because their hard work has resulted in abundant harvests that cannot be sold. These unsold surpluses rot in storage while the world's people face hunger and outright mass starvation.

This absurd situation vividly exemplifies the conflict between the profit system and human needs.

More generally, automation and other forms of technological progress, instead of advancing the human condition, only increase profits for capitalists at the cost of increased unemployment and misery for millions of working people.

The worldwide capitalist drive to maximize profits at the expense of the world's workers is intimately connected with routine international imperialist aggression and ultimately another-and final-world Capitalist profit-making is impaired, and the system threatened, when the world's people take their destiny into their own hands.

From the time of the Russian Revolution SOCIALIST ACTION SUPPLEMENT 2 1917 to the present, U.S. capitalism—headed by Democrats and Republicans alike-has employed eco -nomic and military force to destroy any effort by an exploited people to determine their own fate and take the road toward socialism.

Socialist Action unequivocally supports the right of exploited and oppressed nations to self-determination and stands opposed to U.S. imperialist intervention.

A class-struggle strategy In the anti-intervention movement Socialist Action struggles against illusions that war can be stopped by relying on capitalist politicians. We have consistently fought to maintain the independence of this movement from Democratic and Republican representatives of U.S.

imperialism.

Socialist Action members strive to involve the unions in this movement. In the long run only a political movement based on the mass workers' organizations can put an end to imperialist intervention.

The current austerity drive against working people is designed to reverse the falling rate of capitalist profit and to make the workers pay for the crisis engendered by competition and overproduction.

Socialist Action is committed to forging a new tradeunion leadership committed to union democracy and a class-struggle strategy. Such a leadership, which would arise out of struggle, would mobilize workers in their own interests and revive the best traditions of working-class solidarity to face the current onslaught by the employing class and its government.

A class-struggle leadership in the unions would break with the twin parties of capitalism in this country and form a labor party based on the unions and open to all the oppressed. Its goal would be to establish a workers' government committed to the construction of a socialist society.

Black and women's liberation Socialist Action supports the struggles of Blacks, women, and other minorities for equal rights. We are advocates of affirmative action to redress years of economic and social injustice.

Socialist Action supports the independent organization of Blacks and other oppressed nationalities. This will advance both their own struggles for self-determination and the struggle of the working class as a whole.

The coming American revolution will have a combined character. It will be a socialist revolution by the working class and its allies against the capitalists. At the same time, it will be a revolution of national liberation by Blacks and other oppressed nationalities.

The struggle for women's liberation emerged in the late 1960s with a political character and social depth that firmly established that the fight for women's rights would be one of the driving forces in the struggle against capitalism.

Socialist Action members are active in the National Organization for Women, where they helped organize the massive pro-choice demonstrations in Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles in early 1986.

Socialism or barbarism

The U.S. capitalist class is the chief obstacle to world peace and prosperity. This reactionary social layer is the most destructive force in world history. The U.S.

capitalist government was the first and, so far, the only power to drop atomic bombs on defenseless and innocent Socialist Action is a monthly newspaper with top-flight news and commentary on the i ssues of the day from a working-class perspec tive. You can receive Socialist Action at your home for only $6 for one year.

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If capitalism is permitted to persist, the apocalyptic ending of human life on earth is inevitable.

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