IMGpapers 1976–79

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

OUR POLICIES 2

Socialist Challenge No. 67, 12 October 1978 · p. 2 of the scan · 346 words

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revolutionary socialists are * To build broad-based class Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

necessary means the power of the capitalist state. Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trades unions offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalist Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting struggle tendencies in opposition t class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive in character grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views. * To begin to fight for the creation of a unified and democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front tactics, begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands of workers engaged in struggles.

The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of society black people, gays — struggling for their liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, Africa and Asia. from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties car only he built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracs not as a luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise faction and tendencies The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market, it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an international scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troop The Communist Parties in Europe are in crisis. either th •Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings have any meaninglul strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionary socialist parties are more necessary than ever before. Conditions today

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