IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Regroupment - IMG Hypocrisy

· Red Weekly No. 171, 21 October 1976 · pp. 8-9 of the scan · 751 words

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page 8 of the scan

THE FINAL DEADL NE for notices for na's on s 10am on the Monday before publicatio Idverts are only accepted over the phone l working class vitally and urgently needs own international party. Speaker: James Rob ertson, an American Trotskyist. 7.30pm at the MoeDucK Duo. 10oa rottennam court nodd PORTUGAL: soares Government on the attacr - what is the workers responser near nirs! hand account from Alvaro Miranda (PWCC).

Questions diSCUSsIOn (foolscap) to London WC2 for latest solidbenefit social on sat InVITes YoU october ar me tabernacie, our rowis heaturine ine berencis togemer witn garcial Tolk arous from spain and orner supporting those who want to fiaht for the policies of Red Weekly acainst curs in the nean sector. sun 24 October. ror details contact vicky Ander birminnam University students Unions:

urday 30 October. 10.30 am-5.30 om WORKERS VANGUARD, weekly paper of th •canacist Leaguers. carries WC1 Ine ma now in the Witnin SOCIa internationa Grantites were demonstrates the hypocrisy of your thesis at this point. Thus the 'necessity' of remaining within the International' at all costs may be sufficient to quell the IMG's oppositions, but it cannot be taken seriously as a reason for tendency inside particularly as our differences with the IMG go far beyond mere tactics.

For instance, I believe that the IMG is process of codifying approach which reduces the Trotskyists' role to servicing the existing left currents democracy, when these currents are peddling objectively reactionary policies. Red Weekly's *Plan Red Weekly to beat me crisis was a classic exampic of this tendency, rewriting the Tribunites import controls demand into Trotskyese Your article also contains a number o specific charges against the I-CL leadership that demand answers. You claim, Monthly supplement to for instance, that the I-CL leadership suppresses internal democracy: when where and now AlIE documents submitted to the Internal Bulletin by the split group were published. Their resolutions and amendments were discussec and voted on at conference even after the What saddens me most about the split is that a group of comrades who fought so long and hard inside an undemocratic centrist group like IS. simply walked ou of the I-CL, and thus allow Red Weekly to write off the possibility of a principled, internationalist regroupment outside the USFI. - JIM ELSTREE (Birmingham).

Contrary to comrade Elstree's assertion Red Weekly did not welcome a split from the I-CL. We welcomed the origina regroupment in that it could have been a step in overcoming the fragmentation of the vanguard. •we nave noteo une ser back in this process and now are trying to draw the necessary conclusions. - EDS

page 9 of the scan

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and sexist ideas.

gimilar social evil Raze the prisons laing to collect the insuranc And what do prisons and the crimina Nothing. Absolutely nothing they do nothing to attack the source of crime the poverty. unemployment racism. sexise and irrationality of capitalism.

Second, the idea that a prison is somehow going to "rehabilitate" someone is nonsense. Prisons an designed not to reform human beings, but to break them. Every single hour of every day of every week for months or years is totally controlled by bruta guards. Prisoners are caged like beasts, driven like Prisons are designed to torture and terrorize Dungeons like Attica are American capitalism's answer to the torture racks of the Spanish inquisi.

A socialiat America will have no need for that Crime will be eliminated by Under socialism, no one will want for food clothes, shelter, or any other necessity. That will be right of every single something to be taken for granted as we take for With an end to the systematic propagation and practice of racism and sexiem by the government and the ruling class. such sentiments will begin t This will be aided by the impact of massive affirmative-action programs to eradicate the second-class status of oppressed minorities and women, and by systematic education against racist

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