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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 cialist Action!

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Union/Organization m. 308, San Francisco, CA 94110 people-destroying the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. This act of barbarism helps reveal the U.S. government's current primary responsibility for the threat of atomic war.

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

We ask you to join with us in Socialist Action to help build a mass revolutionary workers' party capable of leading the working class and the whole human race forward to socialism and a world free of injustice and the threat of nuclear annihilation.

John Lennon's lyrics express a vision of the future we in Socialist Action agree with and work for.

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 possession 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 and the world will be as one —imagine, John Lennon

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GIs Tomorrow? Socialist Action/Tina Beacock