IMGpapers 1976–79

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

UTION OUR POLICIES 2

Socialist Challenge No. 72, 16 November 1978 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 409 words

The scan: sc-n72-nov-16-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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judge would then not have awarded the damages? The unashamed class basis of this decision has shocked even We have numerous disagreements with the WRP. We believe that they represent the worst features of sect polities in this country. Their style and method of politics But despite the fantasy world which the WRP inhabits there can be nothing but contempt for the distributors of "justice' in capitalist Britain. The law, in this case, is not Socialist revolutionary socialists are: offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalist Socialist Challenge believes tha To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition to class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive in character grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views. • To begin to fight for the creation of a unified and democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front tactics begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands of workers engaged in struggles Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of society black people, gays — struggling for their liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state. two vital tasks confronting WOWICH The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a wurle imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in latin America, Africa and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troop from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future The Communist Parties in Europe are in crish socialist parties are more necessary than ever before. Conditions todas are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties car only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracs not te lusury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market, it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class units on an international scale. This units will in the long run be decisive in defeating both th Seither th "Euro-communist" nor the pro-Moscow wings have any meaningtu strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionary

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