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functions in effect as the executive committee of the ruling capitalist class. It can be counted on to use any means necessary to organize the attack on workers in Today, when workers strike in defense of their living standards, the bosses consciously draw on their The capitalists' strategy is based on class struggle. accumulated experience to undermine the position of Workers also should recognize these facts of life. But the their worker adversaries. The capitalist-controlled press, labor bureaucrats' strategy of class collaboration plays radio, and TV-the entire mass media-systematically right into the hands of the bosses. It disorients and disțort and slander workers to undercut the possibility of disarms the working class, undermines its power, and sympathetic action by potential supporters. sets it up for big setbacks such as those suffered in recent Rival capitalists put aside their differences to provide material aid for the struck capitalist. In the event their It wasn't always this way. The labor upsurge that greed overcomes their class interest, the capitalist began during the Great Depression of the 1930s won government may step in to keep the capitalist who historic victories. These gains in living standards were won by American workers through class-struggle The entire state machinery can be brought into action, when necessary, to tip the balance in favor of the bosses. The labor victories were so far-reaching that it took 40 Judges invariably issue injunctions which abrogate years of the most servile class-collaborationist constitutionally protected rights to free speech and misleadership to dissipate the momentum of the great assembly. Police attacks on strikers with clubs, tear gas, and bullets are commonplace. Brutal repression is backed One of the major tasks of revolutionary socialists is to up by court-ordered "criminal" indictment, prosecution, keep alive the lessons learned from victories and defeats and jailing of the victims—usually the most courageous experienced in the history of class struggle. In this role, socialists serve as the "memory" of the working class.

In all key confrontations between workers and bosses, Armed with these lessons, the 100 million-member the bosses unite to mobilize their entire class, win over American working class would be the most powerful the middle class, and neutralize those workers who can be force on earth. It would do more than merely stop the misled into believing that it's not their fight. takebacks. It would establish a workers' government and The capitalists are highly class conscious. They rarely lead all humanity forward to a higher stage of deceive themselves. They act according to the principle:

An injury to one [capitalist] is an injury to all. The not protits, would then govern social capitalist government, Democratic and Republican alike, stic elp of Socialist Action/Tina Beacoc!

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ind ept ent : to een ted le. nly tee hat the the ive ire, ley John Lennon's lyrics express a vision of the future Imagine there's no heaven it's easy if you try no hell below us above us only sky imagine all the people living for today...

imagine there's no countries it isn't hard to do nothing to kill or die for and no religion too imagine all the people living life in peace...

imagine no possessions i wonder if you can no need for greed or hunger a brotherhood of man imagine all the people sharing all the world...

you may say i'm a dreamer but i'm not the only one i hope some day you'll join us and the world will be as one —imagine, John How capitalism works reproduction). capitalists have assiduously applied learned from this experience in order class rule. breaks ranks in line. worker militants. the lessons they to maintain their defense of profits. years.

methods.

working-class upsurge. civilization.

Human needs, relations between human beings.