Walsall
We are putting the alternative for decision to IS clearly, rejects the policies of the We stand for total opposition to ists' various within.
One of the problems of the campaign future [note the campaign so far has catec inat cecision.
Mant SUCH Mas One result of the International Socialists' stand candidates by-elections has been the opening of a discussion on the far left about how to build an alternative to the betrayals of Labour. One militant who has rejected the IS strategy is a Darlington bus worker who has resigned from that organisation We reprint his 'Open Letter to all SocialAs soon as IS announced the Socialist workers ran accidea to resisn cause I saw the SWP as a sectarian and substitutionist venture.
comtaces who had similar reservations or wno saw the swr as a first step towards the road of parliamentarianism urged me to remain and fight however. nis nas oroved possible. As 1 was a loner in my branch might be changing at the moment and since ine ooposition crous. have never had much hope of a healthy recent expulsion workers teacue. mvdecision remaec I consider that the running of the SWP completely vindi wine campaidu ludes all those who, while being loyal to class and committed to socialism. are not committed tolo This is especially true in Newcastle Central, where the various organisations avneside ACTION bodies fighting on the cuts, unemployment and racism to use an electo consistent record of fighting the Callaghan Government's anti-working class policies are and large, are many milants inside the Labou Party who are fed up with the campaign of the official candidate but will by no stretch of the imagination support IS precisely because of the type of campaign being waged Ms snears reading even ine official statements of IS, which point out that the only effective way to fight LaDOUrS DONCIES IS tO omI *We [IS] do offer the only credible alternative and the only serious possibilCOE - revolutionary bary Those elements inside other organisations who want to build such a party could redany our by becoming member. of IS and fighting to build a much bigger revolutionary organisation. We see it onues ton of recruitment to 155 Jimmy Mccallum, socialist worker can didate for Walsall North, interviewed in . Red Weekly, 21 October] So there we nave i straint from ine horse's mouth that the whole campaign is simply to build the IS, and that perspectives for struggle are secondary This is why I and many others have left IS. It has proved impossible to develop a revolutionary strategy class from within IS. In fact IS has now become a roadblock to developing that Strategy
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