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WHY International Socialists engaging in IS THE London Region of the a public debate with the Stalinists ? neglect The state capitalists' 'Socialist Worker' for November 21 announces that Roger Protz and Duncan Hallas (IS) Will speak with Monty Johnstone (Communist Party) and Barney Davis (Young Communist League) on 'Strategy for Socialism'.

Between Stalinists and Marxists, strategy is certainly not a matter for debate.

Stalinism is the principal anti-revolutionary force on the world arena. The only purpose in appearing on platforms where Stalinist representatives are present is to fight Stalinism.

The state capitalists organize this debate because they have something in common with the Stalinists on the question of strategy.

Both agree that the fight against anti-union laws be restricted to a protest on December 8 and that the trade union leaders should not be forced to mobilize the unions towards a general strike to force the Tories to resign. Neither demands. the bringing down of the government.

This is the result of the state capitalists' perspective of capitalism without major crises. This brings them round to the Stalinist conception that pressure can persuade the Tories to adopt the liberal policies which were possible during the boom of the 1960s.

Both the Communist Party and the state capitalists are opposed to the mobilization of the working class in united struggle to force the government to resign.

For all these reasons, a debate on strategy between the Stalinists on the one hand and the IS, who call the Soviet Union a capitalist countrý, makes perfectly good sense.

NOW the rethe •R'ed Mole', organ of Tariq All's CONFIRMATION of the dangerous political defeatism of the International Socialism group (stressed in week) came last Thursday night at a meeting of the Bristol University Socialist Society, called to discuss action against the Tory anti-union laws.

• A leading IS member in Bristol said his group started from the assumption that the laws would probably reach the statute books.

the line of the Stalinists and the state capitalists.

First we have the left phrases: 'December 8 must only be the beginning of campaign. More strikes, lobbies and demonstrations must follow'. • we must involve all workers" in the campaign ...

But how? What about forcing the union leaders to mobilize the mass movement? What about a general strike to bring down the Tory ernment? Nothing, nothing whatsoever.

Instead, we must wait until NOTHING could more clearly indicate the dangers to the working class from this middle-class grouping.

It is absolute nonsense to say. that the workers are 'indifferent to their trade unions'. It is precisely their attachment their unions which makes necessary the Tory attack, and which is the basis for the great revolutionary struggles lying immediately ahead.

To say the struggle must wait until the unions reformed to justify cowardly running away from the fight against the Tories, and, above all, to avoid struggle now to force the trade union bureaucracy mobilize the unions.

By saying that the workers are indifferent to their unions, 'Red Mole' lets these leaders off the hook. Instead it calls on those (presumably a small minority) who oppose the Bill Trade Union Action Committees This, like the 'Councils of Action' which the state capitalists talk about, is just formula to avoid a fight against the trade union bureaucracy.

All these middle-class groups are of Pushed by the sharpness the class confrontation into the arms of the Stalinist bureaucracy, the main agency in the international labour movement for holding back the working class and enabling the capitalists to carry through their attacks.

It is time for every step up the fight against Stalinism and revisionism, and to mount a nationwide campaign force the trade union leaders to fight the government on the anti-union laws.

The 'Councils of Action', which the IS are calling for, were intended to mobilize the shop stewards' movement after the passage of Young Socialist Student Society members called for stewards to take part in a campaign to force the union leaders to call a general strike to force the Tories to resign, and called on the University Union to bring out all students on the December 8 strike.

Another IS member said Portuguese invade Guinea FOREIGN mercenaries terday attempted to overthrow the government of Guinea, radio reports from the capital, Conakry, claimed.

An official broadcast said the mercenaries, backed by Portugal, had come mainly from neighbouring Portuguese Guinea.

President Sekou Touré announced he was taking personal command Conakry's defence and said troops were on their way from the interior to defend the capital.

Guinea, rich in the valuable mineral bauxite, has several times complained to the United Nations about incursions from Portuguese Guinea, where large areas have been wrested from Portuguese imperialism by the liberation movement PAIGC.

In September, Touré said white mercenaries led by Schramme-one of the principals in the Congo war— were training stateless Africans for an invasion. Portuguese planes have made a number of flights over Guinean territory in recent months. that 'Force the Tories to resign' was a reformist slogan since, if the Tories were forced out, it would only bring back the social democrats, who would carry out more betrayals of the working class.

It would be more conducive to a revolutionary movement, he said, if the Tory Bill went through. It would bring more suffering and revolutionize workers.

This is very. reminiscent of the 1933 Stalinist slogan: 'After Hitler, our turn'.