TASKS | IMGpapers 1976

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of the Irish people's right to self-determination. Living in the oppressor nation, we must do everything possible to build a solidarity movement in defence of the Irish struggle In fact, this task is the acid test for all those claiming to be revolutionary The Troops Out Movement (TOM) must gather sufficient strength to force the Government to withdraw its troops. TOM must build broad actions demanding the immediate withdrawal of the troops; and we must aim to win the troops themselves to the solidarity position and to TOM.

The fight for free, legal abortion plays a powerful role in exploding capitalist attitudes to women and in liberating women from the shackles of enforced motherhood and family ties. The fight to win this right brings women into sharp conflict with the capitalist state and its ideologists. The National Abortion Campaign (NAC) has already proved its ability to mobilise thousands of women for the right to choose. We must build NAC as the priority campaign of the women's movement.

Students are a key element in the current radicalisation. The needs of modern capitalism have led to a huge increase in the student population and to the relative proletarianisatior of intellectual labour. day are potential allies of the proletarlat.

Opportunities There are big opportunities in the colleges and in the NUS to build a class-struggle left wing campaigning around the cuts, grants, women's oppression and Ireland, To seize these opportunities and give leadership to the unfolding struggles of students and youth, the IMG should set up a Trotskyist youth organisation.

These are a few of the concepts and tasks that we must adopt in the period ahead in order to make the max mum sals. Students to1976 National Conference of t The Perspective

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C 1. IS THE TASK OF THE DAY REPLACING THE PRESENT Serious socialists see the need to sweep away the present leadership of the working class and replace it with one which fights for a thoroughgoing anti-capitalist policy. But this will require many years of struggle and the building of a new revoluthe unions.

LABOUR PARTY LEADERSHIP? aided and abetted by the CP. a class struggle tendency on a defin ite platform of demands at the base of the mass organisations, primarily Without the building of such an organised tendency, the bureaucracy will be able to continue to manoeuvre, 3. LEFT CAUCUSES IN THE The lefts must be put to the test not lust in words but ov actions: we must demand that those who claim to oppose the Government's policies develops a programme of class struggle demands for the Scottish working class.

4. CLASS STRUGGLE CANDIDATES In the absence of any alternative party to the Labour Party, socialists will continue to vote Labour against the Tories, Liberals, etc. But in some Labour strongholds, socialists should seem to challenge the Labour Party electorally by standing class struggle candidates counterposing our programme of action to the rotten class-collaborationist policies of the