in our issue available).
We hope to MULHERN, a member Socialist Challenge Group.
The IMG-ISA Resolution on Revolutionary Unity' seeks to consolidate the political understandings reached to date by the forces gathered around Socialist Challenge into a programme of joint action capable of giving these understandings practical effect and attracting wider support among socialists for the project of revolutionary regroupment.
As such it should welcomed all interested in building cHecuverevo luonary socialist organisation in this country.
the same token, resolution 1S limited document, representing modest organisational base and confining itself to somewhat generic statements and proposals.
It is not an analysis contemporary Britain, or of the tasks and possibilities lying before the British left today, and should not be evaluated as though it were.
However, having signed the document, I would like indicate or differences of emphasis, concerning particular formulations and a fourth concerning the general tenor of the text 1. The CP is lumped in with the Labour Party as part of 'the Left' This erroneous, in my view The Road' certainly represents rengthening the Im pulse towards reformism, but the Party remains centrist organisation whose political destiny is still uncertain.
It is hardly conceivable, at least not in the reasonably near ESPE SENE CP could finally degenerate into reformism without SCYCEC involving the departure of large numbers of forces who should be seen as potential members of a united revolutionary organisation, and who should therefore be approached greater & political delicacy phrase gives evidence of.
2. The section on racist and anti-fascist SOCONS of 'destroying' National Front et al. Nothing else here actually bears out this suggestion, so it may be that the word slipped inadvertently.
At any rate, was regrettable lapse, which will not help to rid the far left of its i residual weakness for fascist heroics.
As the rest of the section rightly indicates. TACOSS fascist, state-organised, simply the everyday popular variety can only combatted by mass political CONSIDERABLE interest has been aroused by the appeal for revolutionary unity and joint work drawn up by the Socialists Alliance International Marxist Group and published of 4 January (copies still print one or more contributions to this debate every week.
mobilisation.
The whole purpose democratising the ANL is to equip it with the analysis and demands that this necessitates ANL obviously lacks.
3. Section 5 calls, among other things, for fighting WILT imperialism' in Ireland. Put so be abstractly, those unexceptionable; and it seems an clear that British withdrawal is precondition of political advance in the island.
the Yet is remains a fact that, after ten years of continuous CriSIS, none of these imperialist forces has been able to weaken the resistance of 1 million Ulster their political projects, of explain that resistance in any cogent way.
My own view is that these political projects, form, are compatible with the consistent exercise of the right of national self-determination in Ireland the resolution demands.
resolution's phasis on joint-action - which in another form has been a recurrent theme in debates over Socialist Challenge inception - is unsatisractory. is There is at times a tendency within uphold action as a dependable st- solvent of political differences and to relegate political debate to optional status.
This tendency resisted.
No likely crisis this work the ABOUT a thousand or be arrived. and
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This week's contribution is by FRANCIS paper's National Policy Committee and of Camden