response to fascist attacks by supporters oune Front and British Movement in Спарет магкет. the demo include 15 Labour councillors, the trades council, the Asian centre.
ANL. It assembles at 11.30am near Chapel Market to move off at noon.
POLICE were ordered to pay Brick Lane defendant Stephen Wright's costs on Monday after he had been cleared on appeal of a charge of threatening months jail sentence.
Ine next appear comes up on 6 December and the defence campaign is again calling for a picket of Knightsbridge Crown Court (1 Hans Crescent, SWI) at 10am. A regular mobilisation every Sunday in Brick Lane is also being restarted THE charge of conspiracy to cause explosions' has now been dropped completely in the case against six anarchists arrested this summer. The charges have now been reduced to conspiBLUS two possession of explosive substances. Four of those charged are still being refused however. Further details from: Persons Unknown, Box 123 182 Upper Street, London NI THE Campaign Against Immigration Laws (CAIL) is organising a day school 'Immigration Laws They Are and How to Fight Them' on Saturday 9 December, 10.30am-5pm, at Institute of Education, TOTU Way. London Admission (50p earners). Details from: CAIL, c/o Box 133, 182 Upper Street, London NI.
Flame'. JULIAN
EWE The ESOS article is the interview with A.
Institute of Race Relations.
There is no doubt that the left owes a considerable debt to Sivanandan. His 'Race. Clas and the State explained the parneular nature or the black immigration into Britain in the clearest terms.
MUDDLED Yet the most insights can also be muddled up of mpressionism, as when the it pact of the projected 1976 Race Relations Act caused bail, him to write: Racism dies in order that capital survive.
Sivanandan returns to this theme in the interview, when he the explains mar longer needs Caro als on racismn out nas cone nommg until the rise of the NF as an within the working class.
Sivanandan attempts the underpin these views politically Бe(- with a simplistic and dangerous WCI.
analysis of class forces. non- According to this, modern Caba ane us too me abou Party, wants to get rid of 'A CLOSE Look at Fascism and Racism' is a pamphlet consisting, in the main, of reprints from 'Big ATKINSON controversial racism. Out-dated free enterprise capital and ol ine Party, on the other hand, play the racist card.
There are two failures in this approach. First, trade unions just as instruments of bourgeois rule rather than as contradictory organisations both bourgeois and working class.
This approach makes him see enlightened capitalists since a important *non-union black spells danger for the system.
The second weakness is that the obverse of this coin can be read — moment is being read might mean that the first stage of the fightback of the working class, after "historic 1975, is to form an alliance with 'enlightened" institutional ainst 'out-moded"
in spire or tnese weaknesses Sivanandan hits the target squarely when he argues the necessity of placing anti-racist activity in the struggle. omission pamphlet is a serious discussion on how an autonomous black hoeration movement tits into the struggle against examines further the Tory black Sivanandan self-determination early 1960s Malcolm got that far.
AUTONOMOUS as a failure for the The workforce could be and in Italy at this COne defeat' in agcapitalism. repeat moves towards anti-fascist trom the satisfactory fascism.
We still have to defend the simple concept of autonomy against its detractors, but it is time that we clarified our ideas The brutal fact is that the British revolutionary left has Just about caught up with the refinements to Trotsky's work nanonalism and that the American SWP made in the when considering Black Muslims. And some have not 13 14 overall -criticism that made is that the 27 28 pamphlet is not more than the sum of its individual parts. This is not just a problem inherent in a collection of articles written at different times, but rather the level poline ste of the NF at this period of British history is not dealt with. Is it destined to be a performance of the 1930s, or does fascism in this period gain its importance from decrees the strong ConDoners Only Sivanandan raises these points, and his answers are not The problem of how the autonomous movements relate • in the overall class struggle is scarcely broached.
MAY 1979 M W S 1979 Anti-Racist Anti-Fascist Anti-Nazi Calendar. 13 stunning poster-size prints - 17ins by 24ins -and contemporary anti-fascist and anti-racist themes Get yours now. £1.50 [plus 36p p&p]. Ten or more copies, £l post free. Rush your order to: SC Calendars, PO Box 50, London NI 2XP. Cheques to "The Week'.
There is no master plan that that the varIous class fit harmoniously together like pieces in a jigsaw puzzle.
requires the conscious to fight against all forms oppression within the working class and for the interests of the whole working class.
M T W T F 10 11 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 - on historical, international, The June anti-racist, antifascist conference, when some of the women denounced the men present for their sexism whilst some blacks denounced the women and gays for their and SO110 unionists denounced the middle-class present. TOI their pelly-bourgeois deviations.
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luta da Photo: G.M. COOKSON (Socialist Challens Group in Britain. DAVID JONES reports.
The only way revolutionaries can raise money is by supporters. The IMG has decided to launch an appeal to raise £20,000 by May 1979.
Bob Pennington's plea for money the rally went off like a bomb. explained that a certain percentage would be given to the Iranian comrades so that they could produce a weekly newspaper.
It was the focus on Iran that began to empty pockets. It was the international caracc or tne rally tat made peopie go for their cheque books.
TCly on Pennington. have TECOUTCCS The response was impressive.
Pennington kept up a steady barrage. Here he polemicised with a sectarian, explained now Central Committee section of the FI had been imprisoned under the dictatorship. minutes the fund appeal was ended.The total was staggering.
In tenners, fivers and humble pound notes £817 flowed in. Cheques totalled £1,507 and a further £101.72 was collected in coins French francs, German marks, and a few greenbacks also found their way to the collection buckets.
PEPS/TSA calist Challenge 30 November 1978 Page 8 ST. PANCRAS Town packed. Twelve hundred people were present to celebrate anniversary of the national.
Outside there were paper-sellers and slanderous leaflets [first prize again to the WRP: 'Supporters of Tariq Ali and Mandel a Establishment'].
Inside there were banners proclaiming solidarity with different struggles around the globe.
The first speaker was Nan Bailey, the ONE OF the features of the Fourth International rally was an appeal for funds to aid the development of the Iranian section of the Fourth International and the work of the International Marxist £1,243 in IOUs appealing to their fifth of the at He increasing our flow regularising our you', said no other IMG FUND DRIVE the entire of the Spanish Drive.
After Name..
Address.
to 'The Week"
There was proletaria rouge Hall was the fortieth Fourth Interthe usual distributors of party of the adresses supplied. The total collected Names and amounted to a staggering £3,747.16p.
In other words, we collected nearly a total. Our supporters responded well to our practical needs.
The £20,000 has been earmarked for pamphlets, journals, stabilising Revolution (widely recognised as the best youth paper on the left), and improving our own printing facilities. In addition we will be able to have political organisers in key regions.
So we appeal to Socialist Challenge readers to help the organisation which took the initiative to launch the paper.
Tenclose a donation of £... to the E20,000 IMG Development Fund Post to: IMG, PO Box 50, London NI 2XP. Cheques should be made payable Detroit organiser democrat.
Harry Gelderen spoke Harry founder Trotskyism.
left unity in Britain today.
Left to right: Ernest Mandel, Hormoz Rahimian, Harry Wicks, revolutionary happening is Peru, Revolutionary Workers Party [PRT].
came about and why it was necessary.
Che Guevara, the Latin American who said, Either socialist revolution or carcaluc ur revoluton e ons OCtoDer yOr On 8 October, 1978, Revolucionario de los was founded. But it didn't begin from than two years of unification efforts by scratch. The PRT is the fruit several revolutionary groll course, not everyone agreed to a unification. There remained difficult for them to abandon their sectarianism. But around.
FIR group tri have te ic dare the TIN-N Socialista Group, the Natalia Sedova Circles, and part of the PST. Now we are a party.
We are the Partido Revolucionaric de los Trabajadores, fighting for *A government of the workers of the city and the countryside.
*Factories into the WOLACIS, HOL LEC Ca DILaTSLS we do not believe any secuien or tit
American
Wicks and Charlie van on behalf of the of Nan Bailey and Francis Murphy • IT IS possible to overcome sectarianism and division on the In an article which originally appeared in 'Combate Socialista', the party's paper, HUGO BLANCO explains how the unification the Partido Trabajadores •STOLSKYIS Lo acneve un.we those who oCCausC WaS differences they will • come agreement.
Saste •ane misunderstandings Combate We are still not -uncy Can Df of joint activity hands of the differences who had dictatorship.
the Iran revolution. His speech, capitalists will fight together with us against imperialism. The workers must maintain tneir class independence We believe that workers throughout the world should join with us in the Stueric atalnst cabiansm. Ins s wil we are part of the Fourth International At first we thought we had to full discuss our tactical differences in orde wastee a OLO time and made very little progress this way hile conchan tor ischad.
continuing dIscusS carned -OU JoIni activity in those areas where there was This helped us progress CUI through many finished discussing.
But the differences are not so great, and workee ouE witnin the unified party. The discussion is now much more fraternal in the atmosphere Our congress will take place in three The nost importan politica ise s el the most important political issues.
still exist. -une discussed and voted on at the congress, collaborated with the delivered without the slightest trace of demagogy, received a and the party will carry out thi approved by the majority. This is democratic centralism; we discu PUSILIUH democratically, then out the line adopted by the maj We call first of all on the comra the PST who did not want to uni well as on the comrades of the PO to join us in forming one big Trots party in Peru.
the PST TUL HOW. WC WIL WOrK LOLeLRE and the POMR to stren te roccr and to make it-ar stronger organisation fighting government and socia with no alliances with any sectors o DOUECO SIE And what about the rest of the When these companeros under: that the WUT ACTS CallO! sectors O tne posses: when understand that the bosses are u against us; when they understand uc onlv way to tree ourse ves imperialism is to sweep away capita - when that day comes, we will fo single party of all the workers ag all une explorers As long as the companeros o other left parties don't understanc we cannot form one single party we Will Sil work with them activities that advance : the in favour of demor wilnin the mass movement with a of unity and without sectarianism slogan shall always be, "The left ur will never be defeated"
spontaneous standing ovation amidst chants from the Iranians ['Death to the Shah', 'Owen Out', 'Long Live the Fourth'].
In conclusion sketched out the International. It was still small in comparison to the confronted it, but its strength was based on the 'rock of internationalism' which had guided foundation.
*The believers of socialism in one country are confronting each other on the Ussuri River', thundered Mandel, large section of Ernest Mandel gains of the tasks which it since 'and on the border of Cambodia and Vietnam'. A tragic vindication of the theses of Trotsky.
mass revolutionary parties throughout the world. 'Not just in one country', he said, 'but throughout the globe'.
and you are objective you will see who was right and who was wrong on how an International will be constructed.' He ended by describing the inspiring meeting he had attended in West Berlin in solidarity with Rudolf Bahro:
*A resolution was passed at the end republic acorporst UNFREE CITIZEN Mandel stressed the need to build *If you make a balance-sheet today socialist Klasse.
one who indelible part working class movement.
killed by Stalinism and the fascists.' have heard its in German, and in English.
kampen with the signatures, of the Italian CP and SP, the Spanish SP, and the Fourth International. Yes, today there is no can deny that we are an of the international It is the posthumous victory of all our comrades who were slandered and Amidst loud applause the International was sung. A careful ear would strains in Persian amongst the front of the audience. But it was also sung in Spanish, in French, klasser kampl Socialist Challenge All photos: G. M. COOKSON [Socialist Challenge Was run URETHION
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Socialist Workers Party. She stressed the struggle against racism and sexism, noting that Carter was not a real
Veterans against Stalinism. Charlie had been a young delegate at the founding conference of the Fourth International,
Harry particularly praised the role of Socialist Challenge in fighting for far
left. And one place where that is successfully which recently saw the formation ef the
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The high point of the evening was the speech of the Iranian revolutionary, Hormoz Rahimian. He described the developing tide of revolution struggle in Iran, explained the possibilities that existed for building a revolutionary party, and mercilessly assailed those
He appealed for the support of the British working class and ended by stressing the international character of
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