THE DEBATE CONTINUES | IMGpapers 1976

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In your last issue, Cde Michelson takes up what she considers the wrong tactics to grasp what lies behind these tactics. adopted by NF. She therefore reveals an inability the left in dealing The whole point about the NF she, herself, it concentrates on activity. This is how a fascist movement always developes. It is by in mass actions like SPUC or the Immigration Campaign - as well marching behind its poses as an attractive frustrated by The aim of the 'No Platform for Fascists' the "traditional "right'.

campaign is to stop this development in its tracks. streets (by any By preventing the NF means necessary'), left can seriously undermine its key appeal to the disillusioned and frustrated: its activism. The recent break-up of the NF tactics have been. onlv goes to show how Cde Michelson hides her refusal to take up the challenge of the NF by talk about the need to fight them just 'organisationally talk. Socialists continually fight against 'racism' or 'chauvinism' the is full of flaws.

- which it out, Ceci participating the Stop sounding defeats. as own banners - that it the NF force for those that the labour using the the whole the correct these Bradford 'politically' andnot This is doublebut this general Ode JB's letter represents an arguement that is widespread on the lett today. Although Cde JB never actually spells This letter infers that the NF is an immediate threat. This is patently incorFascism, as a mass movement, can only develop out of the demoralisation of the workers' movement following reThe entire experience of the 'thirties confirms this. TO pose as a serious threat today is not only to adopt the pessimistic conclusion been defeated (or is bound to suffer de- movement nas already feat in the coming period). It is to turn perspective of struggle away from the real danger - the attack made by the Labour government - onto a possible future fascist menace. Cde JB might reply that stopping the NF 'in its tracks' today is the sole way ensuring this threat doesn't get off the ground. This is naive. The recent provocations of the NF in Birmingham and - marching through immigrant areas - show that the 'punch up' policy of left groups such as the IMG over the years has been worthless. What these groups have not grasped is that a few

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