IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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Battle of Ideas (Red Weekly supplement) No. 1, October 1976 · p. 4 of the scan · 524 words

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*The CND movement is an indirect reflection of the growth of the einss struggle in the ranks of the protestonal and micceece portion of its membership consists of young people, who find the policies of the reformises and stalinists repulsive, They are looking for a lead in the fight CND demonstrators stage sit-down outside the American Embassy in London 1962.

(10I H. Wicks [12i /bid p 359 ITS PERIS rotskyism versue Revisioniem Vol. 4, p 2 Fi Seo M and J Aro continerial Press 10 May 1976 [15i Hadly - op cit. sectanans, Internations iam is the resembling togecheCannon Hal Doments of a Fourth international 1933-40 p 258.

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117) Haily never attempied to conceal his debt to the SWIF Owen, or as inast woro infiltrated 1211 IbId.

(18) Already in 1930 Troteky had alecked the first Brtish 1221 bit. they hac leatend coumerposed reta cung the majority of insi rataThe Lever of a Small drup Wringa us ESTEN MASCISSIE CRATE SO HIS TO HIMHE HE LOREI CND had been forgorten. Insiead of its peevious orientation the SL.L was to announce to the world that the VSC and the people who led it, and who got 100,000 people out onto the streets af London in solidarity with the Nitwere:

.. not just lets groupings, bur a definite middle class diversion of the proletarian struggle and the fight They now appear openly as the advocates of anti-chicory, anti-programme, trying to bring together all kinds of middle class elements, particularly students, as a substitute for the revoluBonary organisation of the working class." (29) Mentors Anorher seven years on and Healy was to discover tha: Hansen and Novack, the two people apart from who were his polical mentors "accomplios of the GPU. How Far Healy had travelled from his originst The current which had developed its as the healtiniese in British Trotskyism on Lie besis of ics absorption of international lessons and not-sectarian orientation bad descended into the most disgusting of all nacional sects But not everything thar Healy did was waler down the drain. Not merely does his present degeneration staod as an excellent reminder of the road of national Trarskyism" hus the carly years of the Healy current show what can be achieved by a Transkyist orgaelsation in Britain which is reaily linked to an understanding of the declopinent of the incernational movement. The decline from that early achievemeat is the story of the depentation of Healyism anyism is almost a ways justised in seems of his trieve This complotary misses the point chat the hall 19905 ale. Abaund simalas fomulae such ad we must be with the messes thenefore me must emer the Lagour Parly were the complete opposite or Trotsky's method. In 1903 t5 where the most advanced workers were to be found at that urne, and not tor ery in ine Laoour Pany cospite to rac 1201 Pablo — Report to Tenth Prenum at the EC (1552).

1231 Cited in Marlin Cook — The Myth at Orthodon • Building the Leadership in Irten tea of the NEC of la Bociati bour League, 3

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