Anti-Tory rally and Pageant of history ALL ROADS LEAD TO EMPIRE POOL mignes wil, be performed in the area. this wif WEMBLEY

This is the 'Road to Workers' Power' and the final step is the concern of the Pageant and rally itself-the construction of a revolutionary party to lead the working class against the enemy.

The Pageant and rally will start this task. It will be the most powerful anti-Tory rally since the ele stion of the hated Heath go: vernment in June 1970.

Preparation

This is a deliberate mobilization. It is part of a lengthy political preparation by the Young Socialists and the Socialist Labour League for the revolutionary struggles ahead in Britain.

We started with the 4,000strong Alexandra Palace rally in February 1971. Then came the great campaign for the Right to Work, when unemployed youth from as far as Glasgow marched on London for an 8,500-strong rally at the Empire Pool.

In all these campaigns the lessons were learned and the movement tested for political struggle of revolutionary proportions.

Analysis

But preparation alone is not enough to meet the challenge of the hour. The determination displayed in all the campaigns was firmly rooted in our political and economic analysis of the capitalist system. We said that capitalism had reached the point of economic breakdown and that workers would be legally robbed of all their democratic BOOK YOUR TICKET FOR TOMORROW—See p.4 rights as a result. This understanding was decisive.

The SLL and the YS also avoided the trap of believing that the political and economic breakdown • automatically assured the development of the revolutionary party.

Transform

All the time, emphasis was placed on one factor-the gap between the objective need of the working class to take the power and the subjective feelings of workers, who have not yet recognized this vital challenge.

It is for the revolutionary party to transform this gap by fighting for leadership in the enormous confrontation between the two classes now building up in Britain today.

This is the meaning of the Empire Pool.

What are the conditions of crisis that make this step forward possible?

The Tories and a tightlyknit gang of military and police conspirators are preOR BUY ONE AT THE DOOR paring for dictatorship Britain.

Meanwhile it is quite clear that the crisis has created conditions which mean that life cannot go on in Britain as before. People will be forced to fight.

The working class has already been stripped legally of the very rights depicted in the Pageant. In effect the working class has been legally abolished by the government —for the working class cannot be conceived of without unions, rights and the ability to struggle as a class.

Illusion

Finally capitalism in Britain is racked with insoluble contradictions. The advantage the Tories thought they had gained by devaluing the pound, forcing up prices and driving down wages have proved to be a grand illusion.

The international crisis, dısplayed most vividly by the break down of all international monetary relations will have its most catastrophic impact in this countryone of the weakest links in the capitalist chain.

In short we have in Britain all the essential ingredients for revolutionary upheaval. • The international crisis of capitalism. • The impossibility of life going on as it did before for ordinary people. • An economy so weak as to be unable to sustain for long the battering from the world crisis.

The Empire Pool rally will be an attempt to launch a new leadership within the working class which has this understanding as its basis for action.

We do this through a recreation of history. History for the working class is not just the past. All workers enter class struggles with history strapped to their backs. They do not consciously live this history in their every-day The boller of a railway engli constructed for the 'Road to Workers' Power' Pageant is carried out of the props department in London io be taken to the Empire Pool, Wembley, in preparation for tomorrow's performance. For our final Pageant diary see page 3. For further pictures and story, see centre pages. activities. They enter from the present.

Workers enter the fight to defend their rights under conditions governed by the economic and political crisis. In other words, their stubborn struggle to defend the gains of their forefathers involves a confrontation of revolutionary proportions.

Unique

The thousands of workers, youth and professional people present at tomorrow's unique occasion will have before them one simple message: "The working class won their rights by struggle and they will only keep them by revolutionary struggle.' The call from the Empire Pool is to join this struggle to transform the Socialist Labour League into the revolutionary party.

This is the responsibility of all those present at Empire Pool and everv worker who values his rights and conditions in Britain.