(Continued from Vole 5, Noe 10)
We, on the other hand, are saying tht the way to shift the burden of oppression which afflicts the world, is through engaging in a total global struggle, which regards the "domestic" fight ogainst wage control, and for the advance of workers* control, as being complementary to the fight of our natural allies, Asian, African and Latin American social revolutions and liberation fighters. The "foreign policy field" is not therefore a separate arena which we can either "abdicate" (. since our allies are actively engaged in it), or capture, in a meaningful autor omous way. Of course we should oppose the foreign policies of the British Governnent = but we should do it from a position of solidarity with the liberation novenents.s To do this means that we have to engage in political activity at many levels. We do not think "industrial confrontation" is a substitute for opposition to the Vietnam war, but then neither is the reverse true. It is necessary for the Left to put forward policies that will attract the maximum support from many differing layers of the population. For this to be effective it is also necessary for the Left not to substitute its own preoccupations and preconceptions for those from whom it seeks sup=# porte For the left to have a strategy, it must seek to combine the seeiiingly disparate struggles into a coherent opposition. It is precisely by accepting the mystification of the bourgeois state that the struggles over Vietnam and incomes policy seem to be unrelated. It is our job to cut through this veil and expose the very real and intimate threads binding them (and many more), This is why we argue that the most practical way of assisting our allies overseas renains the donestic struggle for socialisme Footnote: an example may serve to show foreign policy does reflect in broad outline the nature of the domestic state and of class relations thereing Yugoslav statements, from Government and Trade Unions, are increasingly sounding the note of solidarity with the Vietnamese strug= gle, increasingly firm in their characteris.tion of the Aneérican aggresgione Its neighbour Greece, with a similar geographical situation, but bound by reasons of its internal class relations to international imper= inlign, of course "naturally" supports the United States. Accidental? Seni-autonomous?