IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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· Socialist Challenge No. 109, 16 August 1979 · p. 11 of the scan · 411 words

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page 11 of the scan

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director brusquely dismissed the workers' 250,000-word letter listing their grievances' or some SOCIALIST Challenge (5 July), Never comments on the the Revolutionary Communist Group when it involves Socialists, ever disrupt an IS meeting.

Until recent events, the RCT have attended all our public meetings London and have intervened in the discussion and re usually tedious repetitive attacking the RCG for its 'moralistic" support for liberation movements: However, suddenly they stepped up their call Jalall against disruptions of a provocative and, in a of a physically threatening character.

This we were not prepared to tolerate. They were warned that if such behaviour occurred again they would be thrown out of our meetings. It did on two consecutive evenings at two different meetings. On occasions KU members were thrown out of the meeting when disrupted it just as the meeting began. On the second occasion one of their members had to be restrained physically and forcefully - in order to throw him out.

This leads me to a fundamental political disagreement we have with Socialist Challenge. Our concept of democracy is not a bourgeois one — it a democracy which serves Interests of working Socialist Challege, however, democracy above the interests of the class, and this reflects its essentially petit-bourgeois point. This is quite consistent with Socialist Challenge's conception of democracy socialism. This is Challenge rules out physical force to prevent other groups disrupting meetings - and we mean disrupting meetings and not simply making critical interventions. DAVID YAFFE (London)

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