IMGpapers 1976–79

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

OUR POLICIES 2.

Socialist Challenge No. 83, 15 February 1979 · p. 2 of the scan · 333 words

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revolutionary socialists are: • To build broad-based class apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unio Ter solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitali Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting 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 black. people, gays — struggling for their liberation. This socialism car only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with al escary means the power or tre choraist stare struggle tendencies in opposition to scale. This units will in the long run he decisive in defeating both th imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dietatorships thes sustain in I atin America, Africa and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdraw al of-Bfitish-troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future The Communist Parties in Europe are in crisis.

• socialist parties are more necessary than ever hefore. Conditions today are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties car only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracs not 1º: luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market, it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an international Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings hase ans meaningful strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionars

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