SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

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Socialist Action 073-oct-19-[numbering-error]-, 1984 · p. 9 of the scan · 195 words

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page 9 of the scan

There are innumerable dictatorships in the world, from the horrors of South Africa to the dictatorships of Latin America, and markets exist but where there is no democracy. But there is no country Il lne woria in wiich taere is no tree labour movement but political liberty exists.

So fundamental is this principle to any form of democracy, torm of democratic SOcaT socialist democracy, that even where the working. has power it must still absolutely maintain the independence and freedom of the labour movement and trade unions. As Lenin put it after Revolution there is Stlil 'workers' organisations workers nron inen stater The overturning of that principle, the destruction of free and independent trade unions in the Soviet Union, was one of the most fundamental crimes of stalinism. The fight to reestablish that right, to create free, independent, self-governing unions in Eastern Europe is one of the pillars of the fight for political liberty in these countries. Solidarnosc audience istening lo nim, you cannot where capitalism law, that violence', etc?

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