IMGpapers 1976–79

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

State' - but yes to the police!

Red Weekly No. 158, 8 July 1976 · pp. 10-11 of the scan · 228 words

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A postscript to the infamous history of the WRP was written in Hull on 26 June. Following a Young Socialist demonstration on unemployment, organised to the exclusion of all other tendencies in the labour movement, IMG members were removed by the police (on WRP orders) from inside Bevin House (T&GWU headquarters) where a rally was to be held. Clearly there is a huge gulf between the WRP's abstract sloganising of 'No to the Police State' (a continual theme of the demo) and the reality of their practice.

WRP sectarianism of this kind is no way forward to fighting the Callaghan-Healey measures. It is only through the creation of a class-struggle tendency within the labour movement, based on the broadest unity in action with all forces willing to combat right-wing policies, that the real fight will emerge, In no way can the building of an insular sect substitute for this task - CLAIRE DE CASPARIS (Hull). cacred at the hands of the Civil Guard.

overtly repressive governments from 1933 to 1935. In 1934 the Workers Alliances, dominated by the Socialist Party, attempted to organise an insurrection against the entry of the cryptofascist CEDA into the government.

sage of 1936. Only the Trotskyists of the Communist Left understood the cratic agreements.

Only in the Asturias did the Workers Alliances become genuinely

page 11 of the scan

Red Weekly 8 July 1976

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