IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Forging weapons

Red Weekly No. 163, 26 August 1976 · p. 6 of the scan · 308 words

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Forging weapons of struggle will mean demandina:

WORK PLACE ELECTIONS-where nose electee to rewresant mme worker. will be controlled by the workers and not the bosses. It means insisting that elections are fought on policies, not personalities; ers have the richt. at any time, to kick out their representatives and elect new ones.

THE RIGHT TO ORGANISE - so that all groups of workers have the right to form tendencies on alternative positions. They should not be subjected to witch-hunts either in the press or in the unions themselves. The right to organise covers not just political tendencies but those sections of the working class - women and blacks - who often find discriminated against such, both by the employers and by the unions themselves.

ELECTION OF SKUCCEE as happened recent struggle by student teachers for jobs. In the face of lies, own insisting that the work- and support committees, effectively and democratically.

so that democracy begins to be involves fighting under workers control;

workers' inspection.

LEADERSHIP FOR Line Islanders and organisation.

CUTS D manoeuvres by the Broad Left-dominated NUS executive, the students linked up with other workers in the jobs lobby of the Special TUC. By organising their struggle on a national basis, by electing delegates to national meetings, and by coordinating the struggle through strike the student teachers organised their actions both FIGHTING POLICIES - workers democracy is not just a question of how to fight, it is also about what to fight for, 1eXe tended not just to the trade unions but to the places of work themselves. This and demanding that all records and plans are open to Indeed, demands for democracy in the unions and in all working class struggles will only develop if they are advanced alongside anti-capitalist demands which show the need for such

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