50 SOCIAL SCIENTIST The cwwwji mtefe^ d^d^sa^ti w^. ^ote^ ^ ^sm %( <^W growth, law and order, and anti-communism are all components of the ideology promoted by transnational capitalism. Even the people of the United States, at the heart of the empire, are affected by profound contradictions. The productive base of the country is undermined by the flight of industries to other countries in search of higher profits. An enormous balance of payments deficit caused by the high military costs of imperial dominion produces an economic crisis, manifested in rising inflation and the fall of the dollar as the currency of international reference. In this way the US-based transnational corporations end up contributing to the economic decay of their own country with serious consequences for its workers. The transational corporations, most of them based in the United States, generate contradictions which set them against the dependent national states of Asia, Africa and Latin America. The corporations also conflict with the competing capitalist states of Europe and Japan and even the United States. These contradictions provoke an increasing and worldwide anti-Americanism. The crisis affecting the United States of America and other capitalist countries, far from being generated by the oil-producing countries, is a structural crisis. Thus, the present inflation, unemployment and slow economic growth will not be overcome in the next few years. Striving for Liberation The international class struggle thus encounters new contradictions and assumes new forms. An economic minority, which is beginning to organize as a class on an international level through control of transnati-onals and alliances with the bourgeoisie of each country, is developing a political project of world proportions and faces a crisis which it cannot totally control. This minority is the number one enemy which the proletariat and peasants must combat. It is evident that they are not yet sufficiently organized on a world scale. They are advancing energetically, however,, in many of their national struggles, creating the necessary conditions for regional and international coordination. This explains the numerous and powerful liberation movements which are found in various countries. Despite the fascist escalation in South America, these movements have won impressive struggles: in the first place, Vietnam and Cambodia, and also in Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique, Angola and Palestine, In certain countries the military, on becoming conscious of the repressive role they are forced to play, have broken with this role and assumed anti-imperialist positions. Racial and ethnic conflicts, the struggle for human rights and women's liberation are increasingly linked up, often with a progressive thrust, within the complexity of today's class struggles. Within the contradictions of the capitalist countries analyzed above, another type of social organization is possible and is already being put