IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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Red Weekly No. 171, 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 792 words

The scan: rw-no171-oct-21-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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that the women's rate of pay will be raised to cover the extra f6.50 that male workers doing the same job have been receiving.

The agreement also Les employers to complete mutuality in procedure relating to the movement of workers inside the factory, if the management attempts to split up militants and disrupt the strong workplace organisation born in the strike. The return to work will be full and complete. The management has given a pledge of no victimisation and the agreement is operative from the day that the strikers return.

£60,000 job with the Oxford speech tries support all down the line. was revolutionary party. THE WRITS ARE OUT! The by-elections in Walsall, Newcastle and Workington are set for 4 November. As soon as Roy Jenkins leaves for his Europear another will be due in Stechford, Birmingham.

The Labour Government is not overjoyed at the prospect. A growing discontent and anger with their policies is being expressed all over the country in thousands of small tremendous victory or te trico stkers snows tat Iris possible to start e fight back and win. But not all of this anger expresses itself so positively. The Labour leaders know that one result of their policies will be massive abstentions of Labour voters thoroughly disenchanted by the similarity between the policies of Callaghan and Healey, and those of the Tories. Some of these abstentions will turn to the 'radical' policies of the fascist groups, the National Front and National Party.

Yet still the Labour leaders' hypocrisy knows no bounds. Callaghan's leavers on teachers. Both he and Healey keep very quiet about the nex round of cuts ordered by the International Monetary Fund, which they Tremendous need The increasing rightward drift of the Government creates a tremendous need for the building of a left wing in the unions based on the politics of class struggle, not the class collaboration of the Social Contract. This ficht cannot be confined to the shoo-floor. it must also be built out of the struggle against racism on the streets, against women's oppression and action in support of those fighting imperialism.

That fight has to be taken into the by-elections. While Red Weekly generally supports a vote for Labour as the mass party of the working class, me best candidates to oura me class swuggie lem wing today are those who are willing and capable of organising the fight back in the constituencies in a democratic way around their campaign. Where there is no broad class struggle candidate or an IMG candidate who stands for that perspective, we will support the International Socialists However, as Jimmy McCallum explains in this issue, the Internationa Socialists oppose such a perspective of a class struggle left wing. What they offer in its place is in our opinion an ultra left tactic for building the In their campaign for the Socialist Workers Party, the IS are forced to bluff. A recent issue of Socialist Worker described the Communist Party as 'falling apart'. This is just wishful thinking. Jimmy McCallum has to take the word of the Red Weekly that there are a large number of militants who are prepared to fight against the Government's policies yet are sceptical of the Right to Work Campaign. We would direct his attention to the forces at the National Assembly on Unemployment held this spring whose 3,000 plus rank-and-file delegates dwarf the existing support for the Right to Work Campaign. The left bureaucrats under pressure can mobilise thousands of workers. Thev still retain credibilitv desoite their sell-outs. In the end, McCallum reduces the problem of building the Socialist Workers Party to building the IS. Which is where we started.

Face away

Red Weekly will consistently oppose the notion that the way to build a revolutionary party is to erect oneself on a pedestal, whether it is marked "IS' or 'Right to Work Campaign' and demand that the working class fall in behind. Ultimatums to workers who still support reformist organisations to join your own turn their face away from the fight for the The fight for unity in action around policies that can open up the road to a solution based on workers control is the best way to break workers The standing of alternative candidates to the Labour Party in the coming elections can be the basis of reaching the widest number of workers and the beginning of a fight back based on mass action against the policies of the Government. But only if every effort is made to open the door to the campaigns and organisations in which they are involved.

SM Economic Community at Christmas, but significant struggles. Now the to put the blame for the 200,000 jobless school Photos: ANDREW WIARD (Report

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