IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 111, 30 August 1979 · p. 2 of the scan · 393 words

The scan: sc-n111-aug-30-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not or we workers but of the capitalist class.

Socialist Challenge believes that the iwa vital tasks revolutionary socialists are:

• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should non-exclusive ing a wide range of political views.

• To begin lo fight for the unitied democratic revolutionary socialist organisalon wnica can, throuch application of united front rachcs, oegin 10 ne seen alternative by thousands workers engaged in struggles.

Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The sees to unite the fight of with that of other oppressed layers of society — women, black people, gays struggling for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with necessary icans the power of the capitalist state.

Our socialism infinitely more democrati what exists in Britain loday. full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. Ihe Stalinist models of "socialism' the LSSK and Fastern turooe have discredited socialism in the exes of millions of the He are opposed to them and will offer full support fighting for socialist democracy.

The inferests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable vil a world scale, Capitalism has inly created a has created politics. Thus we fight for working Class unity scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dietatorships they verlain in Latin America, Africa and Asia in Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal British troops from Ireland and letting the frish people determine their sun future.

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