Trotskyist Organization joins S.A
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2 SOCIALIST ACTION DECEMBER 1987 A small group of revolutionary socialists based in Detroit, the Trotskyist Organization, has joined Socialist Action.
The Trotskyist Organization had been in the process of drawing similar conclusions on a number of important political questions with those held by Socialist Action. They decided that the differences they still held with Socialist Action in some areas did not justify separate organizations.
The Trotskyist Organization shares fundamental commitment with Socialist Action to the Trotskyist, i.e. revolutionary Marxist, program: the need for working-class political independence; opposition to Stalinism and all other variants of reformism in the workers' movement; and the need for a labor party based on the unions in this country.
The Trotskyist Organization played a leading role in building the March 29, 1987, antiwar protests in Detroit, which drew close to 5000 people. They are committed to a united-front, mass-action strategy for building the antiwar movement.
They are confident that as members they will have the opportunity to fully participate in all decision-making in line with the highest democratic traditions of the workers' movement, incorporated in the SOCIALIST ACTION constitution and organizational principles of Socialist Action.
A declaration adopted by the Trotskyist Organization states the following:
"We join Socialist Action, loyal and disciplined to its organization, determined to make our contribution on the level of program and in recruiting the new generation of workers and young fighters. We call on all of our supporters and sympathizers to likewise join Socialist Action, for we are moving forward on a solid and principled foundation."
The addition of these five new members means that a Socialist Action branch has been constituted in Detroit for the first time. The new branch is extremely optimistic and enthusiastic about the prospects for building Socialist Action into a party capable of leading American workers toward political power and socialism. This confidence is bolstered by modest, but solid, evidence that interest in Socialist Action has begun to grow in those cities where branches exist.
The Oct. 19 stock market crash has signaled the opening of a new period for world capitalism. It is clear that class conflict will sharpen as capitalism strives to save itself at the expense of reduced living standards for the working class and significant layers of the middle class.
The real change in conditions that will favor the growth of a fighting working class movement has been set into motion. And with it, the influence of revolutionary socialism, symbolized by the new Detroit branch of Socialist Action, will also grow.