IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Sabina Roberts

Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) Vol. 1, No. 4, 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 228 words

The scan: Socialist Action v1 no4 jun 1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 3 of the scan

Concluding the series of articles on the Labour Party. question. This general orientation has, in the was such inat ne aavised ine Party to in's advice for apply for affiliation, signed to provoke a refusal.

fide Lenin's grasp of the importance of a sensitive orientation to the Labour Party Communist affiliate to the Labour Party and 'split' with those sectarians in their midst who refused to agree. Unfortunately, the Communist Party did not follow Lenand when, in 1927, they did it was in terms deLenin's advice, grounded in a grasp of able today as it was over 50 years is as applicago • Labour Farty nas not In any It is.partto the left reacting impressionistically to Wilson's repeated Blackburn's comparison of Labour to the Democratic Party in the USA or Sedgewick's desc -ription of it as an lopen agency of capit. alist rule! were merely crude repetitions which over-simplified the Labour Party and saw only its negdisarmed the left as it has traditionally been disarmed in its ability to intervene in the ongoing radicalisation and put forward a strategy, based on the understanding of the majority of workers to struggle against the reformist leader.

These latter will not be removed by igby shouting abuse at it trom the sidelines or hoping that struggles will 'bypass' it. Histor;

figures like Callaghan and Jenkins continue They grasp -e

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