are Socialist groups? It seems a strange question to ask in view of the fact that the paper is However, as HOW well into o Scialist Challenge second reader since June 1977, I don't think it is one which has been adequately answered This, in my because it has never been adequately discussea in tne pages or une paper.
There seem to me to be a number of forms that Socialist Challenge groups can take. First, they can be more or ICSS tront organisation of the International Marxist Group, involving the local periphery of the IMG in political activities of varying degrees of commitment with eventual recruitment.
Second, in areas where the Socialist Workers Party sympathetic joint work with the IMG, a series of joint meetings can be held with a view to planning joint interventions into ine class struggle locally.
Third, Socialist Challenge groups can groupings of independents, members. and other aligned militants who read Socialist Challenge and sympathise with its aims. that autonomous groups hold the best hope for the future. This is consistent with the call for a new unified revolutionary organisation.
For autonomy to be achieved it would be necessary to committee elected with the responsibility of implementing the decisions of Socialist Challenge supporters. However, if such a committee was IMG members there would be a of losing the sought-for Also, IMG members in a Socialist Challenge group should be prepared on occasions to take a back seat during discussions, otherwise politically inexperienced will just clam-up and eventually lose interest.
Although SWP members, example, should not be excluded from Socialist Challenge groups, it unlikely that their concrete support can be relied upon. This is because of Challenge opinion, view to their officers. The insurrection was only broken by the shock right to broadcast. It is a case of their freedom to broadcast set against a putting its overwhelming stress on mass campaigning action