inter-imperialist competition, the international trade war, the general slow down of economic growth, and the stepped-up crisis of capitalist This growing crisis of the capitalist system is intartwined with a genera crisis of all sociel relations dominated by the bourgeoisie. Alongside the revolt of the workers againet the capitalist economy is a growing revolt of youth against the alienating and oppressive character of the bourgeois education system and the bourgeois army, a growing revolt of women against the burdens imposed on them by bourgeois legisiation and patriarchal class society fillegal character of abortion, inequality of wages and of rights, atcl The recent mass movements in Begium, Denmark, and especialiy students and other young people, are a clear demonstration of the fact that bourgeois society is today rejected by a large part of the youth The militancy and anti-capitalist thrust of these mass movements show that the spirit of May 68, far from having been crushed by the bourнеи, това на зе SIR Me SourOUr dOr tion, on a higher level of consciousness and especisily of organisation. In this respect, the mass movement of the French high school and university students and the apprentices has an exemplary character whose significance extands well beyond the youth or the borders of a single French youth in struggle have elected democratic strike committees in every school in the country. Every strike committee sends delegates to local, regional, and national co-ordinating bodies, General assembles discues the activities and decisions of these delegates, and racill them whenever they disagree with their decisions At these assemblies and committees the fullest democracy is practised, with all politicsi cur. постге то вегето ле геросс aes ana proposels. 30 povtul 1s the pressure of this mass movement that majority decisions are respected and applied by minorities This form of organisation, which was lacking in May 68, marks a new and tremendous step forward because it succeeds in combining spon tansity and organisation, freedom of debate and unity of action. It has created a model, in real life, of how the working people will Organise their comine generalised struggles first, their revolutionary power and their new stare afterwards, when they wilt have overthrown capitalism: through a democratic system of workers councils. It will not fail to influence deeply the form of organisation of the workers MACESCIVE ITHE MESOTE STIKKINS Already strike committees democretically elected by general assemblies of strikers are springing up more and mare from the present strike wee which is engulfing so many European countries.
Because the European working class is faced with a combined on slaught from the employers, the ruling governments and the bourgeois state the working class varo and sens quer more clearly the nead to May Day Suppioment Page 4 tions of the capitalists, lice the simoitaneous occupation of the AK trust's chemical plants in Holland and West Germany which forced that trust co reverse its decision to lay aff 6,500 workers in five fac Tes in lour different countries.
Let us prepare the organisation of a groat European Congress of La uniting all unions, workers' parties and movements in ult the Vister European countries, in order to map out a strategy through which t power of the 50 million or so workers of our continent can be used not only to beat back the capitalist offensive but to go forward to the overthrow of capitalism, towards the building of the Socialist United States of Europe.
Solidarity must not stop at the lovet of common action against a cr especiaily proteat the weak, the less organised and the specielly op presson. the immorant morers, the nemayed, the towar pala, sick, the old. It must exoness the contral aim of guarantoning a doc standard of living and basic human rights to all members of society. Irrespective of the ups and downs ai booms and recessions, inflatlo HIC GRUNTI It must particularly help those who fight so couragtously under the most difficult circumstances of brutal dictatorship and violent repr sion: our brothers of Spein, Portigel and Greses, the herbie fightie the colomal revolution in Ase. Africe and Latin America, and in t In struggling for these goel, through the conquest of a diding scal wages and of working hours through the immediate introduction o 36 hour week; through workers control over hiring and firing, over SAn Othe Cost orely monk, ore production costs an selling prices by opening the companies books and revsaling the bi ing scrats, over the rythm of the corveyor belt and the whole org sition of production, the working people will find out that they o lastingty ensured only by wrenching from the capitalists the owner of the thelories and the banks, and the power in the siste, ang by ablishing workers power, by bringing about a socialist revolution On the road to that revolution, the building of a revolutionary mes party, based upon te programme and the care or revolutonr marxism, of the Fourth International, will appear to them as an in dispenseble prerequisite, on the besis of the experience which they assimilate; in the first place, the experience of the activities, the int Tive and the insership quelitife of the revolutionery marxists in th mass movement itself.
Forward, towards the European-wide co-ordination and generalisat of the current strike wave and youth upsurge in capitalist Europel Forward, towards the Socialist United States of Eurapat 1 May. 1973 The United Secretarist or the Fourth internators