390385 proposals include support for the naspeuren womcu s moremcar, Dut at the same time make no mention of black workers.
The Anti-Nazi League, which you do menuon, 1s a propaganaa grog agasnat the NF, and the anti-fascist comatees are lareciy Jovolved in defensive work in response to fascist initiatives. In the intervening periods these committees are usually inactive. Alhough they have begun to broaden TE acuTc, MCr pcIspectves da not go beyond organising mainly ee manhans agaltst fascist Black workers are one of the mos pressed sections of the working lass and have been in the forefront of the fight against fascism and racism over the last two years. It is these workers who have first experience of racist and attacks, and who have organised the CECICE TO UCr own communies. Without the continuous mobilisation of toese workers apaist rascisnl, tc impact of the anti-fascist would not be WART T S TOUT ruling class has used the tactic allemplnr to integrale these worker into traditional politico and develop a black reformist leadership, but so far this has tailed.
Despite a significant mobilisation of black workers behind revolutionary banners on and despite their readiness t0 get involved TEULIOR COCCHIA I E LEL tons, it is distressing to note that you section of the working class. white working CASS had itself the arganisations to the same extent as the blacks have, then would you have pur forward the same perspectives in your centrespreed? 1 would say definitels ALTRIS stage | revolutionaries have progressed much beyond the Fourth Congress of the Comintern when oc canic compianco inar ne nag encountered race prejudice really want to grapple with the negro BLOCN This lack of perspective for black WOrKETS PrODADY OETIVES LOOI LEC traditional way of thinking of the left LEMBEE LICT OLEOEROSCRE EO think and organise at the point of production whereas the black workers tend to be involved in polities at a This is especially true of black youth, necessary to point out here that the national organisations claiming to ILHELIL black. communities Totally bankrupt and do not represent SUT CIE The Tew who have credibility are locally based. organisations are mainty active in the Afro-Caribbean communities and are very suspicious of the revolutionary left, It is important that a sensitive LEISELE (smail s, small w, small p) rep hand fascist on a big united organisation would be force development, impact on its of very allow freedom anti-fascist motives. As real unity. they mosl -oppresc If the al your expense.
involved useless just revolutionary IDECOLECS probably For ex-SWP wonder apsept thar adherence io majority American among doing so who did no faction light.
out with Jeffreys aver internal bulletins and a (WHOLEI Ihe reasob! Tor 1 feel u is for the aTe prepared to accept the any These of the SWP membership, mURY Socialist Challan Whitelieid, auxi bo 31A1 G0 LIVERPOOL Socialist AS A former member of the SWP, 1 was delighted to read your statement Time lo Link Arins on icir uny, A irganisation involving th wescot saP iMG and former comrades would be a very powerful com bination, brine back into eclisits many of our comrades who have allen by the way-side since 1968, and immediately pose the possibility of this new socialist workers party the CP as the main force to the left This new organisation would be much more powerful than the sum of CENI its paris, and give a new perspective to many worker militants who have been through the revolutionary ort a big united organ isation beins created. You can bet your last penny that the Communist Party leadership petrified ty which would have an own rank-and-file.
But there is a problem, and one you don't seem to recognise. Ie's all SELV CENSERE organisation must be democratie and CT BEISI Fair enough. But actually the majority of SWP are deeply suspiciour of your MOLE LIE CAOCE DEIC that Duncan Hallas said in the articie which you published, the utterly problem is that the IMG don't want reanoenies to strenghe themscity want unity It's absolutely protesting your good You have to recognise thai al the beginning al least, and La Jong period. Lhe current would be a lange jont- tou navelo be nesparco le and guarantee Your UCCLES! within the framework of free debate.
Mareoyer, Vou haveto be brepared to enter a joint organisation without 705L ID Conde a VIcIans Because thar's what really scares the SWP leadership and memberslip alike: lhe thoughi of a long period of complete paralysis while Tariq All and John Ross slog it Tony Chiff and Steve an increasing pile of rapidly The membership must clearly understand members I've inet seen to agree with Duncan Hallas's view of the reasons artemipts al ubity.
So be precise comrades Are you discipline of ao organisation in which your views are in a minority? Are you prepared to make concessions to allay the fears for do examplc some initial limits on the time periods of internal discussion?
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- Lagree — these are the words 1 would use to describe the behaviour SOMBRESES Challenge supporters on the small anti-fascist picket ar Iford. Justifiably angered by the police sell-out on agreed plans, MEINE channelled denunciations Socialist Workers Party as the mon immediately obvious League supporters.
The turnous was, by supporters in any case, feeble perhaps the thought of working at canvassing was less attractive than punch-up.
Challenge does litle to disperse the MetO SWP/ANL corelio s Hopressipn. incorrect repeated in spile of repeated stress on the differentiation of the two and TREITO CELIVIS The accusation of League complicity in calling for bams is reiterated in pite of the presence of both Peter Paul Holborrow co-signatories of Fight the Ban* oc the front page of the same issuc of rhe sally, Brian Grogan's call for resistance to the police alternative to gaining wider support apparently on the dubious ground martyrs make good rallying is, in the circumstances, suicidal. must ask contrade Grogan: Where is the mass support resulting from the martyrs of Only an initiative on the lines of the ANL can break the isolation of the revolutionary left heroies irrelevant.
T. NICHOLLS(SWP mensber, West London) 1 WAS VERY disappointed with last reformist sponsors propaganda campaien alermahve lo mase street, it was the League continued with the mobilisation at ilford after sponsors and Redbridge CARF had run amay at Me MeNee's bidding. In spite of its wrong position on the ban there would not even have been two thousand people at Ilford but for the League. Certainly LIETE couldn'i mobilise that mumber — not Nazi co-ordinating committee it could not Bne ascon o moonisc asals Tr. ban which YOuT CARE acting like 'a bull in a china shop' Three cheers for the bull Socialist Because the League is a mass single issue campaign political forces, it will not have an analyss or sexism, immigration controls and so oi. Howerer, by massively extending the audience for anti-fascist politics, it can help create a mass movemest within which revolutionary socialists can work to explain the origins of fascism in racism, sexusm and so on. The League has this reaching hundreds of thousands of people revealed in the moctings if holds. But ir as an realise this potential democratised and committee accountable-to its base This does not buikling branches, as the comrades stale.
The IMG is aware of numerous instances of sectarianism by the AND towards existing. organisations makes abuses which will prospects of both. But we will light sectarianism not simply in the ANL MICK GOSLING [Landin Orguniser. IMG)
WE APOLOGISE for the fact that the letter week members of the 10-member ARAFCC Secretariar did not indicate they were writing in a personal capucity. The error was ours. Ed.
see There has, as an which economic their reformist ARAFCC inself Fole as went against the local No doubt the League was A study drawing in broad position on CHILLSU potential of size of will only spirit of if BURTE SCOnE even freer recessatily mean TWUI CUCE viahle anti-fascist pessimistic situation.
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four republican ideals new M60 machine gun has been used then, been an overall escalation of rhe military campaign. restting not only in more bombing of ('sofi") targets but abso increasingly in direct and successful attacks on the army.
Secondly, Bob Purdie asserts that the Provisionals" campaign has failed and thar herefore they should 'dump arms now". Bur it mast be understood that a war is being fought that onl one side can win. The Provisionals want a Britsh withdrawal: the British want to stay, Heither the British were forced to concede a withdrawal, or the Provisionals were forced to dump their arms, this would guite rightly be regarded by the other sade as a victory of other colonial wars fought by the British shows that it is precisely when they have defeated a trocdom movement that they go in hardest. In Kenya it was after the fighters in the forests had been decimaled that some of the worst Bricish atrocities occurrel. The Hola massacre was just the lip bf the Soeberg and the British "rehabilitated the derainees in thie concentration camps. History shows that when you are lighting the British, attack is the best means of defence If the Beisish were to force a defeat on the Provisionals their next step would undouhtedly be to exorcise the republicanism from the ghettoes. The SAS would he given an Tein L0 down republicans in the streets, republican prisoners would be subjected rehabilitation" rechniques and the RUC and UDR would be back with a Finally, we repudiate Bab Purdie's view overal?
The militancy of the Cathobic working class has been shown in the past two weeks by the buge turnout for the political status demo and for Paul Duffy's funeral In the south of Treland, Pianna Fail coming to power with an unprecepented majonts on a pro-Jrish unity and British disengagement ticket bas led to a siruntion where all parties in the south are openly expressing quasiThis has been a major sel back for Roy Masom and the Britsh govern ment because ir is ooce again respec. table to he in favour of Trish units and Britsh withdrawal. In these ciceun-
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cheers for the bull!