SPEECH ported the Socialist Worke our position and leads it towards a fight Red weex v nas received manv enters commentn. on the IMG's position on recent parliamentary and ocal by-elections. In Walsall and Newcastle we sur international Socialists, yet in Lambeth we supporte the official Labour candidate against IS. Why on elecuons ane al IssUes - Is determined by an assessment of what best stimu socialist policies Today this means supporting those who are actively ano blacucany Deake win ne oocd Contact Dolicies or ine caoour Government ano trade union bureaucrats; it means seeking to promote this develClive Turnbull (Red Weekly, 2 December) is there'fore quite right when he says that the crucial question toddy IS nOl Inar or teror revolution. Nor can it be seriousiv arqueo the IS say, that the immediate perspective is that of when he says unal une decisive Question is wiemer the revoruton wir oe ouli urom insoe or ouTside the The problem which IS fail to confront is that the masses still have to be broken from reformism.
brandishing ounc rayl mercoient - m uis case tue oocialis, Vvornes rar - in tont ot tnei taces. our oniy inrouen a continua orocess oi sesiine ine abour ane trace union ens in the task of building action against the Labour That means pushing forward those forces which are taking up issues that advance the struggle of the Workme cidss dne nente tor me lei edoeis to volve mnemseives in unis process. I wi oe ine relusa ot the lett leaders to make more man a toker commitment to this task which will expose them i - like the tens of thousands o workers on 17 November - who still But if we reject IS's approach to this problem, it would be even worse to relapse into simply exposing mne len leaders verbaly inrouen work in te Labour Mais is wnere con noutors ike Granam Durnam 23 September) and Chris Wood (Red en co wrongl candidates standing against Labour class with the Social Contract -and not the bureaucrac versus wnatevel necessary t onv nas Such an aim walsall ang birminenam for class agreement between the IMG amictecnce or cidss situeele canoloates our actions on ine relationsnip of torces which pre sently exists; hence we should not support far left But the undis puted fact that the forces fighting back at this stage alc relatively sinan io no dreunent tor nor breain witn mne Laboure. to retuse to call tor a vote to candidates representing forces involved in the fightback is to fail to pose the key political question of the course, it would be a million times better if a candidate basing themselves on the fight-back was t come our orme Labour rar Inoeee EAe HSLOUV 0 revolutionaries snouio oe lo wace a lient tor a Labou candidate to stand on a programme which breaks La candidate who would be responsible to the rank-and-file of the working clas This is what the South-West London comrades of the IMG had in mind when recommendino a vote fo Marie Montaut in the Lambeth Concil by-election The problem with that particular candidate was that commit herself to workers democracy in a clear way but rather posed her candidature in terms of anic a pontcal siano in tne counci. vne unis !:
meanno t ir extenos breaking from parliamentarianism and basing oneself on the real class struggle actions of the work - the fight against the cuts, racism, and the like It is this thrust of workers democracy which is the underlying basis of the IMG's campaign in elections It is on this basis that we campaign to link up with the class struggie minorities wnich are beginning to en gage in real fights in the unions and the localities Such is the aim of the campaign we have launched fo support hich the gave lo the caoo are Line io party bunding ap oroacn curs nont acainst our inrust. nonemeles: thev are oar or ine orocess or tion backte ou view that a vigorous campaign based upon a thrus!
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£15,000 must be raised by May '77 THE CHOICE IS YOURS Photo CHRIS DAVIES (Report)
HEMPSTEA JAC AY! Act 1075 socialist solutions to the crisis. NEWSPAPER ELECTIONS that we stand.
INTERVENTIONS * Cestions facing the working class: * Women's Oppression * Racism * Unemployment these issues. £15,000 to make that fight effective. The tide of world revolution has turned decisively in favour of the working class and the oppressed masses of the colonial world.
Only the Fourth International with sections in 51 countries and sympathisers in many more has any prospect of constructing a revolutionary leadership for this new wave of revolution.
In Britain the situation is crying out for a real socialist alternative to meet the crisis and the attacks of the Labour Government. The advanced militants in the working class are looking for answers in the face of the massive betrayals of the Labour and trade union leaders. The time has very rarely been better for revolutionaries to reach out to masses of workers with We need a newspaper more accessible to worker militants. Everyone will have followed the big changes we have made with Red Weekly over the past months. We want to expand our room for debate, we want to increase our coverage of problems of everyday life, as well as consolidate all the other changes we have made. This means the launching of a new paper.
In this period we have to seize every opportunity to reach out to advanced workers. This means also standing in elections. The IMG is fighting for an agreement of all the far left and class struggle forces to present an all-round fighting alternative to that of the Labour Government. This needs massive resources. The undemocratic election procedures systematically discriminate against small parties. We need at least £2,000 for each candidate The IMG needs to step up massively its intervention on all We need to produce more pamphlets, and literature on all BUILDING A REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION We want full-time organisers for our campaigns. We are acquiring new premises and new machinery in order to strengthen and make a more efficient organisation.
To fight to build a socialist challenge to the capitalist crisis takes organisation and finances. The IMG and the Fourth International are attempting to build that challenge — we need RED WEEKLY 9 December 1976 9
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contructing an alternative mass pary o lie td Partyiy. 2 December seps 10 Bink, Wilcox (Red