ideas contained in the leaflet we reprint below. DEAR COMRADES:
Revolutionaries have real build a revolutionary party. current strike wave shows that even under a Labour government, workers no longer accept responsibility for a The Anti Nazi League has shown tremendous potential revolutionaries to take the lead in organising genuine mass movements.
anese ooenies Britain. The unfolding revolution in Iran, in particular, provides conditions for building a revoluionary workers party in that country deep TOOLS movement.
Yet in Britain we have so far failed to provide a credible alternative to the Labour left and Communist Party for working class many reasons for this, are between the existing organisations.
Many serious militants ask: 'How do you expect to unite our class when yourselves?"
ye believe tere is a basis for sucn a unification as a step towards building a strong and credible revolutionary party in Britain. It is shown in the ПЕШИС0240 U3033UI40 joint work between our tions.
In the Ford strike, for example, we issues so that the nature of the differences can be determined with a view to overcoming them. It also calls for practical steps to increase joint activity where it exists, and to initiate collaboration where no prior joint work has been undertaken.
opporThe action through the Low Pay Committees for the There in the Anti Nazi League. but one we GUYS ONS revolutionary Birmingham, far left organisations.
level has organisaof this year. were able to work jointly with other militants in the Ford Workers Group. In the current public sector strike our militants are campaigning shoulder to shoulder for all-out national strike • Action and the Campaign for In the National Union of Teachers, in which socialists have a powerful influence, there is a united slate and platform between Rank and File and me socianst reacners Allance tor te Inner London Teachers Association Likewise in the Civil and Public Services Association, despite tactical differences over how best to defeat the opportunist wing of the Broad Left, we are collaborating in a joint campaign over union democracy.
This joint work is repeated in other areas of the class struggle, especially We have also been engaged in joint propaganda activity. During the Ford strike, joint meetings were held in North London, Leamington. On the 3 February Iran demonstration, a joint statement was made by the SWP, IMG, and other Political discussion between our organisations at a local and national begun. The national leadership of the SWP is engaged in discussions on how the SWP can best World Congress to be held at the end participate in the debate for our Hith DATE Local branches of the SWP and IMG in some areas have already begun this discussion.
There have been some reverses, We believe that leadership's decision not to stand in the General Election is a serious mistake. It misses an important opportunity to explain to numbers of working class militants that there is a socialist alternative to Callaghan.
We think a second mistake was made at your conference, resolution proposing a joint slate between the SWP and Socialist Unity Was retrice.
However, we consider that possibilities of seriously discussing steps towards a unified revolutionary have Never been favourable.
It is for this reason that we have Ford Workers Group showed the possibility of systematic joint work.
proposed to your leadership that we open discussions on the three points decided at your conference, with a view to fusion.
SWP These included: the need to build the revolutionary party now; acceptance of the central importance of the building of rank and file movements large and an orientation to the workplace;
and acceptance of the conception of the party as a combat organisation that discusses in order to decide and acts in a disciplined and cohesive fashion.
Revolutionary unity will not be easy to achieve, not least because of the distrust and sectarian attitudes the which long years of division have created. yve will be more. discussions as between revolutionary organisations. We will not attempt to hide the differences that we think still them.
Particularly We are • RECES 1 treating these exist, but will try to discover which are tactical differences which can be out organisation, and those differences which require further discussion in order to try to overcome them.
intend -to publish correspondence from the Stechford 1976 to the Tes exchanges as a pamphlet so that both our organisations can make use of We have produced a documen called Our Common Ground. It sums up what we think are the big questions on which there should be agreement to make a fusion a lasting and genuine highlighted in this launch of Socialist Challenge, is the question of internal democracy. We believe that this is indispensable for any revolutionary party which is to correct and learn from its mistakes.
also proposing to your leadership that in order to deepen the joint work between our organisations, it reconsiders its decision not to stand in the General Election, and that it wages a campaign to support the efforts of the Fourth International in Iran to build a revolutionary party.
Our belief is that the SWP shares much more in common with thes comrades than with any other section We hope that a discussion with a view to fusion can be taken up in all We also hope that we strengthen our joint work in the ons. nean acs movement! in aiding the Iranian revolution.
We hope, too, that comrades of the SWP will take the opportunity to participate as fully as possible in the Congress discussion of thi Fourth International.
International Marxist Group.
allowed the large multinational corporations which dominate Zimbabwe's economy to go on paying starvation wages and rake in their super profits. LIBERATION The liberation struggle will be complete unless and until the stranglehold of these western-owned monopolies over Zimbabwe's economy is broken. The imperialist pow intent on a neo-colonia solution, will do everything possible to DICYCHE the Zimbabwean masses taking control of the wealth of their country by expropriating these multinationals.
David Owen the British Foreig 1 Secretary, has warned that Britain may send troops under the guise of a UN 'peace keeping force, to police transition to neo-colonialism. So a key task facing socialists in Britai is te Zimbabweans right to determine their own future and oppose any attempt by the imperialist powers to intervene to defend their interests.
Saturday, 3 March ZIMBABWE ACTION CONFFRENCE Ham-4pm London School of Economics, Houghton Street, London WC1.
Further information
AAM, 89 Charlotte Street, London WC1. Tel: 01-580 Socialist Challenge 1 March 1979 page 11
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THIS WEEK members of the International Marxist Group will be asking comrades of the Socialist Workers Party to discuss the The IMG wants discussions with the SWP on fundamental