Use your vote against them, or they will use

it against you.

ing on the H-Block/Armagh issue.

The PD candidates will them selves be fighting on an anti-imPeople's Democracy has decided to the campaign but we are opposed perialist and anti-capitalist proto give itsfirst priority tochall- to them on an even deeper level. gramme. We aimtochallienge enging Gerry Fitt and Paddy Dev- Recently, Fitt and Devlin made an British lies and show the support lin in the North'slLocal Govern- electoral pact with the pro-imperfor the prisoners! struggle. We mentelections. Fitt'srecordis ialist 'UnitedLabour Party! and aim to challenge the opponents of already known and we have al- the Sinn Fein - Workers! party the prisoners in the Nationalist ready been engagedina 'Dump machine andare standing as parties and to give the peoplea Fitt! petition repudiatinghis ‘independent socialist! candidates. real alternative to Fitt andDevattack on the prisoners and cal!- Asrevolutionary Marxists, we lin.

ingonhimtoresign. The petition cannot standby andlet Socialism has gathered over 5, 000 signa- be dragged through the mire and Above all, we want toorganise.

tures — well over the number of the label used asa cover for suppWe want, through the campaign, votes cast for Fittin the last Coun- ortfor imperialism, attackson to drawnew forces into the policil elections. About amonthago, the prisoners anda capitulation tical status struggle and to lay the Paddy Devlin followedinhismas- on the economic and social! oppbasis for abroad struggle on the ter's footsteps witha savage ression of the Irishpeople. We streets against the political, attack on trade unionists suppor- call onal! anti-imperialists and social and economic domination ting the prisoners. socialists to help us defeat these of imperialism gangsters and prevent themusing We must oppose these individuals the tradition of James Connolly THIS YEAR MY CAMPHIGN EQuauiTy WITH LoyausTs WHEN THEY BecoMe Jos Equanity Loyausrs ! hasknown several different types were opposed. utionary proletariat, after the of governments. Itisonly fifty first bourgeoisrevolutionin FIGHT LIMITATIONS yearsagointhe 1930's whenone Russia (1905) soas topave the major capitalist regime Revolutionaries must al ways way for the second bourgeois after another in Western Europe fight these limitations, andthe revolution (February 1917) and and Japan fell under fascism, pretensions of the capitalists. for the socialist revolution (Oceasily the most ruthless and bar- Butit must also be recognised tober 1917). The quotationis baric form of government the that when the majority of the taken fromLenin!s 'Left Wing worldhas yet experienced. Even people have illusions in the Communism, an Infantile Dis— todayoneof the world's most electoral andparliamentary order! which was written in 1920 powerfulcapitalist countries, process, andthe revolutionary specially toanswer members of South Africa, is the one which movement lacks the strength to the Third International who took most consistently tries to implem- do away the existing bourgeois anultra-left position, calling for ent the poisonous anti-human state apparatus, revolutionaries non participation in bourgeois theories of the fascists by opp— must participateinthem. Thisis elections. Lenin wrote that the ressing the majority of the pop- true of even the most counter- Bolsheviks consideredit "... ulation because of the colour of revolutionary parliaments as the obligatory toparticipate ina most their skin. experience of the Bolsheviks in reactionary parliament. '"' He pre-revolutionary Russia shows. also argued against those who Finally, theright toelect agov— said the bourgeois parliament was Lenin drew attention to many of ernment ona full adult franchise "obsolete! by writing:

them when he took up a debate was only won from the capitalists "Parliamentarism, of course, is after decades of strugglesby the with the "ultra-leftists" in the 'politically obsolete!....but—early 1920's. The ThirdInteroppressed majority. The capi- and that is the whole point - we national founded byLenin and talists only granted extensions must not regard what is obsolete Trotsky Wasinitsearly stages to the franchise as parliamentary for us as being obsolete for the andhad to findtheright tactics institutions began to play an ever class, asbeing obsolete for the to deal with the fact that, inmost smallerrole inthe governing of masses. .... Youmustcall their of Western Europe, therevol—" countries. Today, parliaments (i. e. the masses) bourgeois Lutionary tide had ebbed and most are subject to theirresistible democratic prejudices — prejudworkers in the advanced capitalpressure of capital, national ices. But at the same time you List countries had deep illusions and international; the opinions must soberly follow the actual of the mass of the people canbe in parliamentary democracy and state of class consciousness and Social Democraticparties. In over-ridden either by changing preparedness of the whole class these circumstances, some memthe rules of"democracy'! -like .+., Ofall the toiling masses..."

bers of the International were Britain didin trelandby impoagainst contesting parliamentary sing partition or like the Union- The main criterion for Marxists elections. ists have done inthe six counties ishowbest to break down the through discrimination and illusion in bourgeois democracy LENIN'S STRATEGY gerrymandering - or by simply and expose the limiations of capdenying the people aright to By contrast, Lenin argued that italist society. We wouldbe decide, like whenBritain first participationin elections was deluding ourselves if we thought, entered the EEC even though at "not only useful but indispen- as some do, thatparticipatingin the time majority of the people sible to the party of the revol-— the parliamentary institutions of

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