How to build a Troops Out Movement

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IMG Irish Secretariat mising activity on Ireland in th one area where all pass initiarives - the working class organisations in this cousHas to be tilled in tuc he Tribunal, the United TON and other related activities on the people, attendence st such activities should be nob-exclu The idea of some activists ir the movement that all activitie sbould be only based on dele. strategy.

trade union branches, in theory seems a sensible way of giving the practice it limits the number o trade unionists, Labour Party membervand other militants whal while wishing to be invalved, cannat win a majority in their groop for acion on Ireland olutionary List League The bovement this weekend TOM national faces new opportunities. If the guiding principles adopted focus Di wants an opening car Ble movemeat Lose opportunities the arianians, support DE lic encouraged.

suppress local to which The history of the Troops Out Movement has not been one of total failure. Despite the chauvinism of major sections of the working class, TOM in ils first year grew rapidly in size and influence. It Isid down a network of over 30 active branches. Through media coverage of a series of mational events, it created a national presence.

it won some support in Par Cainent and a lochold in a fee trade unions and Labour Part branches and some trades coun cis. And the revolut nary el begne to take TOM serious!:

But these successes have beer ceased to be a brosd iront ai mpted to win control order ANTAGONISTS le has to be said that the SWARMISS WETE HITISINS groupings. At least two Iormal oreanisations - the Kev commonist trout and the Litternational Commun- and another was ai informal grouping based on the officers and led b ex members of the Internations Marxist Group I is this last ine bat in became battles and CSTaDI5000 ASHT DE C Against these displays of sectBig Flame pressed the front — in which all activity in TOM la ser the troops our of Treiand should be Unfortunately, the bistory of TOM is litrered with attempts by these groupings to activities which for PCTCHOLSHUIR The result was a paralysis of activity: members hegan to leave The policies of the "leadership' bave themselves been a major cause of dedine. It has become clear that the leadership rejece the original concepion of TOM to build a scrame network o branches, reinforced by national initiatives, which would hear the task of creatine presence for anti-imperialist polițics in the working class.

PRESSURE GROUPS in Instead, their conception of TOM is as a small London-based DONUTE TOUD IONCE TO CIOUS of Commons and Fleer Streer, which would sporadically organsections of the labour morencal through various revolutionary organisations they have acoess.

This is at the heart present differences la TOM believe that TOM mast be based on a steng network of acove Jocal branches — the only way to creating workolncer and working chas cortmunities up and down the country:

SIMPLE SIMON In their recent letter to Re Weekly the leadership' of TON described these ideas as Simple withbeld support from their major iniatives in the lahour movement.

it was Big Flame militants who built se origine land; and that we pur major esounces into sending six del Delerian ta hakra Ve are nor againse worl the labou moversent. Work in the reformist organisations of the class will be one component or buldin TOM's presence in the working class. Bur equally important 1 WITE HADIL tions of the class in strugsie -during strikes, occupations, rent -Ir is no accident chat the first working class TOM branch devconed on the Lower Hill esenri in Kirty at the end of the longest rent strike against the Housing ESSENTIAL And is is essential thar TOM should build a presence for antiinperialist politics LENE men's movement, in the student bovenient, and among sections bE the MIDTAIN CI1SS These perspectives lave not beca ac Depted by the TOM leadership In the wrong for TOM to ignore work the Irish section of the So these are our conclusions: thai socinlists working on the EST BUE OO JOUS CULOW work together as a broad frontfor unity in action. Secondly, the branches, carryins out sustained propaganda in all sections of tie series of minor naciotal initiatives, such as the International Big Flame

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