The Walsall election | IMGpapers 1976

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of the IS which Red Weekly welcomes.

minority oppositions in the trade union conferences. welcome a long-term orientation to an arena of politics usually ignored by the approach other revolutionary candidature. This is certainly the best way to proceed in future.

be characterised as sectarian. The demands put forward, against cuts, against betrayals of the Labour Government.Red Weekly calls on its supporters and all other organisations of the far left to comit their resources to the Socialis Worker campaign in Walsall. revolutionary movement as an effective step forward in defending the Interests of the whole working class. The International Socialists have decided to run a Socialist Worker candidate in the up-coming Walsall (North) by-election-the seat soon to be vacated by John Stonehouse. This decision marks a major tactical shift in the orientation The Socialist Worker candidate, Jimmy McCallum, is standing on a platform which, despite its weaknesses, takes a clear and unequivocal stand against the anti-working class policies of this present Labour Government. A campaign around his candidature can play an important role in developing those oppositional currents inside the labour movement whose emergence has been shown in forums shich as the Assembly on Unemployment and the large In a recent series of meetings on anti-racism organised by Red Weekly, members of the IMG Political Committee have laid strong emphasis on the need to extend the fight against the fascists and their racist policies from the streets to the terrain of national politics, where a gauntlet has been flung down with the strong fascist challenge in the general elections. By their decision the IS have shown that their appreciation of the situation is not dissimilar from that view.

In our opinion, an electoral intervention by the far left is of great importance and we are therefore hopeful that the IS intervention in the Walsall by-election does not merely represent a limited tactical turn. On the contrary, we would far left. We believe that a good way forward would have been for the IS to Korean saLons • ana develop a united tron This will not prevent us from giving the candidature the fullest possible support. The issues on which Socialist Worker launched the campaign cannot racism and against unemployment, offer a candidate clearly opposed to the We offer a serious pledge to work for the maximum united action of the

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Cuts NO THF Red Weekly 26 August 1976