IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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Red Weekly No. 175, 1976 · p. 9 of the scan · 280 words

The scan: rw-no175-nov-18-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 9 of the scan

But already there are signs that the project heading TIGE maln nationalist organisation, has boycotted the Turnhalle conference all along. Now cenounce contidence trick ano Calor & DOYCO This in itself will make it hard for Vorste to sell the latest plan to the imperialis countres wnich ceneraiv tavour a Diach neo-colonialist solution for Namibia.

additional problem facss the South African Government is that the latest proposals are too blatantly racist for even the tame Turnhalle delegates Already some of the black delegates have Joined SWAPO and have left the conferSouth Africans tear that this may be only the beginning of a revolt o the puppets turing on their masters.

narrow are present ideas of "acceptable' alvergence revolutonar movement compared to those which real revolutionares took tor granted The essay form of the book undoubtedly imposes limitation and leads to gaps. There is no discussion of Luxemburg's theory of imperialism - although the Donnca concusons sue crew rom tar brilliantly expounded in the first chapter of the book; neither the famous debate on the national question nor the vexed question of what tactics Luxemburg should have pursued in the German Social Democracy prior to 1914 are really Luxemburg's views on bourgeois democracy and the lessons of the Russian Revolution is excellent at the level of theory, its implications for her political line and practice in Germany in 1918-19 are not expiored Despite these omissions. however. it overwhelmingly the best book on Luxemburg available in English. As New Lef Books have for once priced it at a level which a lot of people can afford with a bit of saving, it is undoubtedly one of the best investments going.

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