Movement for a Socialist Future: MSF

Trade unionism in crisis - a programme for action
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The working class and trade unions are facing an historic challenge. Corporate-driven globalisation has changed for ever the relationships between workers and employers, in both public and private sectors. Old-style compromises are out and confrontation is in as jobs are moved from Britain to lower labour cost countries and public services become commercialised. Yet the present leadership of the trade unions - including the so-called "awkward squad" - is clearly incapable of taking up these new challenges.

This pamphlet was written by trade unionists who are members of the Movement for a Socialist Future. It is aimed at stimulating the discussion already taking place in the unions about the future direction of the labour movement.

£1 including postage. Please send cheques made out to MSF, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR

The firefighters' struggle - the story so far
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This pamphlet summarises the key lessons so far of the firefighters' pay struggle. It is written by the MSF to take forward the discussion about how workers can create truly democratic and accountable forms of economic and political representation. January 2003

75p including postage. Please send cheques made out to MSF, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR

"No social revolution in history has taken place without a body of ideas which have given people an alternative viewpoint to the ruling ideology."

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"So in practice, the Third Way tries to abolish classes by imposing the interests of the minority on the majority. It is no coincidence that the Third Way was a term used by Mussolini's Fascists to justify their suppression of the working class."

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"The drive to make ever greater profits through mass production and consumption of film, music and TV has led to a form of cultural standardisation."

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This book is divided into two parts, which cover the whole of Gerry Healy's life. The first part is a personal account of the last four and a half years of his life, when the author was his political secretary and close collaborator. The second part outlines Healy's work in the revolutionary movement from his arrival in England in 1928 up until 1985. In the centre of the book is a fold-out section showing the projection of the path of cognition developed as a teaching aid by Gerry Healy.

£13.50 including postage. Please send cheques made out to Lupus Books, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR

Includes new material on the history of the Soviet Union and the north Caucasus. From Kurdistan to Palestine, Chechnya, East Timor and Tibet, oppressed peoples are struggling for their independence. This pamphlet sets out a concrete, partisan and principled attitude to the right to self-determination. Lenin's analysis of the economic foundation of national movements is outlined, and studied in relation to his logical method. The theoretical origins of the disastrous "two-stage" theory are shown. A special section about Chechnya and the North Caucasus draws on recent research by the Minority Rights Group and historical sources recently made available in the former Soviet Union.

£2.00 including postage. Please send cheques made out to MSF, PO Box 942, London, SW1V 2AR

Quarterly. One year's subscription (4 copies) by 1st class post to Britain: £14.00
Airmail to Europe: £16.50
Rest of the world: £19.50

MSF manifesto says: Don't waste your vote on New Labour
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The Movement for a Socialist Future's 2001 election manifesto, Shape the Future, says that the parliamentary system has failed and that "an extension of democratic procedures throughout every area of society" is the only alternative. The Manifesto argues that the right to vote is devalued by the existing parliamentary system of government. Political institutions today exist essentially to lend legitimacy to the global corporations which control our lives, the Manifesto says. During the election campaign, the MSF called for: