IMGpapers 1976–79

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

The paper needs more guts

Socialist Challenge No. 123, 29 November 1979 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 580 words

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parties only be rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democrats not as a luxury hut as a vital necessit!. the right to organise factions and etells.

If you agree with these principles want activilies hy Socialist Challenge supporters in your area, fill in the form belor and send it to us.

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Address Socialist Challenge 29 November 1979 page 2 Solihull. Here Socialist Challenge. involved I think could in more needs more guts supplements particularly and Party STEVE GRIFFITHS works at Rover are views on Socialist Challenge about be agitational.

We're often spot on with the issues — as in the Dobson scandal and the recent centre page spread about Tony Benn at the Labour Party conference — but the we don't always put them over in quite the right way. The paper I've enjoyed reading the Battle of past the debates on Faction the because it gives you an overview of what kind of socialist organisation we're trying to build.

It's surprising the issues you get feedback on in the factory. The photo that Socialist Challenge printed of a woman having a backstreet abortion | created a stir. Somebody pinned it up the wall nex! all pornographic pictures of women. For the whole week an argument raged the rights and pornography article with it was clear and hard and provoked such arguments.

The women's question is always a source of controversy. Should. women be on the line! (A third of the workforce building cars are women at Rover.) When it comes to layoffs women come under fire We sell Socialist Challenge outside confed people leave meeting. In the factory mainly to Labour Party members and other workers who are interested in socialist ideas.

The numbers we sell depend on our strength in the factory. Since I Hickey's been a senior steward we've imposad to beregular with sales and increased sales. chase people up.

A paper like Socialist Challenge is of important when The union movement is being threatened as it is at the moment at Leyland. You need to know the facts about what's happening in other plants and details of what management and the Tories are upto.

We have inside information that the management's already got Tory finance and support for what they re upto and that's why they dare to take the us on. sell We sold dozens of papers in the town centre on Saturday afternoon. The headline attention and they decided to buy. The •dispute al Pat ising the city. People want to KOW We 0Z For ¿eve and centre Middlesbrough, whole trade upstairs in Spencer Street DUNDEE GLASGOW IN IRAL building a grabbed peoples Leyland is polarCongress supporters SC the Hamilton contact belals ol John Ford. S3 Elliott Crescent, Hamitor - ok sales. al lycwslare slue Cane Bookstal Markel. LOCKTOR SC available from Dundee City. outside Boot , every Thursday 45.30pm Sats ‹ - outsid. . Fri 5-6pm same place he contacted at PO Box 50. London NI TRADE 3/4 No UNLO CPSA, Nov Rail. For details: tel. 01-359 8371 Dec, rorus • derails tel 01-359 837 NORTHWEST IMG trade union school. Topics nationa bobosmon worksnoo and union branch organisation; New technology and unemployment. For details contact Mancheste Report 1. For venues and further

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