"'Glasnost' did not create freedom wrested from the bureaucracy."

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reemergence of exploitation of the poorer enterprises by the wealthier enterprises, and be a stepping stone back towards capitalism.

In fact, this very idea is being floated in Eastern Europe today as a way to fool he workers into accepting private own ership of the means of production Real workers self-management can only rest on nationalized property, with an overall economic plan decided democratically by the working class collectively. This is the only way the workers can exert real power over the economy. On this basis workers selfmanagement in each individual enterprise can develop as part of that plan. Solidarity resulted from a fusion of different groups. One of these held that the Marxist analysis of the USSR developed by Trotsky was wrong. They held that the bureaucracy was really a new ruling class based on nationalized proper co. Tectivisaled their theory "bureaucratic The originators of this theory split from the Socialist Workers Party (SWP, in 1940 because they could not accept the SWP position that the workers state all democratic freedoms to struggle for defense of their economic interests and the rights won in 1917.

"Mass action against the anti-democratic coup may pave the way for mass actions in the direction of genuine socialism. Such a collision between glasnost and perestroika may well cause some of yesterday's partisans of 'democracy' to once again take up the banner of authoritarian 'law and order.' "In many 'newly industrializing countries,' the cause of 'capitalist 'modernization' is advanced by dictatorships intolerant of trade unions, opposition parties, and free speech. It is hard to see how the ex-USSR could move decisively "create" the independent groups and movements the FIT statement refers to. The people did this, utilizing the greater political freedom wrested from the bureaucracy.

The fundamental contradiction is not between "glasnost" and "perestroika, two completely interconnected sides of the same policy of capitalist restoration. The coming battles will be between the bureaucracy as a whole, and the working masses and the oppressed nationalities. Fuzzy thinking on this question can lead to illusions in the Gorbachevites. The task of the working people is the over(continued page)

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(continued from previous page) throw of the new post-coup government, including Yeltsin and Gorbachev.

A major difficulty with the FIT position is its refusal to see that the bureaucracy as a caste has opted for capitalist restoration.

While acknowledging that restorationist policies have been "strengthened and China were "state capitalist" against Trotsky's analysis.

This view led them to be neutral during the Korean war (1950-53), which was a bloody conflict between U.S. imperialism and the North Korean and Chinese workers' states.

The ISO proudly states, "The founding slogan of the International Socialist Indeed, what is the fuss all about? Nothing much new is happening. On these grounds they fail to join the issues of the real class struggle unfolding in the USSR, around which a new revolutionary socialist party will be built. inspire fighters everywhere to link up with their brothers and sisters in the Soviet Union in a common strug gle against oppression and exploitation.

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