IMGpapers 1976–79

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

LETTERS 'self-management in struggle'?

Red Weekly No. 171, 21 October 1976 · p. 9 of the scan · 339 words

The scan: rw-no171-oct-21-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 9 of the scan

Congratulations on your last few issues. It seems to me that apart from our Anarchist Workers Association Weekly is almost alone in actually encouraging political debate among the left.

In this context. I would like to make a few points recognising that the Right to Work tremendous resonance in the working class, our position is that it is not simply IS's sectarianism that will ultimately keep the campaign in a minority position within the class. It seems to us that there is a severe poverty of analysis about the nature of a united class campaion that does not question the fundamentals of the type of work that millions of workers are forced into.

When revolutionary groups call for the Right to Work, they should be saving is not the right to a boring socially useless job, but the right to a decent standard of living work or no work.

In this context, when the International Socialists call on the about this. paper While Campaign has had a they what repetitive, What we must be calling for when workers occupy, surely, is sel manacement in suruccid be turned over for the use of the labour movement to debate and use the plant for goods that are either directly beneficial to the class or to further the struggle. It is in this context that when the workers of the IMRO printing works in France occupied used the machinery to print an entire range of literature that the class in struggle needed; and they also inmated a debate on new and effective format, etc My second criticism or hed weekly is on an entirely anterent point. It is phrased as a simple question. Since everyone on the left now knows the strong state of the South of Ireland to be even stroncer nan that of west Germany. way nas the mu no! taken up the case of the Murrays? Their imprisonment, torture. frame-up and proposed hanging highlights all that is symp- that the occupied plant has to bureauclacy IST WOrd

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