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Address Send to Socialist Organiser, 28 Middle Lane, London N8 8PL. down the government would require a mobilisation of the working class of general strike proportions. As Socialist Organiser has argued in the past, a general strike poses the question not of which party will govern, but which class will rule society. Such a situation would create a qualitative transformation of the class struggle, and workers' consciousness to the extent that what seems a realistic alternative to the Tories now becomes irrelevant.
In effect what the Editorial calls for is "A general strike to kick out the Tories" - a slogan which Socialist Organiser has always correctly argued against on the basis that such a slogan limits the goal of a general strike to effecting merely a change of government, or at the other extreme is a synonym for insurrection. What is worse about the formulation in the editorial is that it specifically sets out in advance to limit the goal of the general strike quite explicitly to merely gaining a change of government.
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