IMGpapers 1976–79

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

OUR POLICIES 2

Socialist Challenge No. 74, 30 November 1978 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 342 words

The scan: sc-n74-nov-30-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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revolutionary socialists are:

Diack Deone gays - offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalis Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting To build broad-based class struggle tendencies 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.

sation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of the workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of society - strupaline for their liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all ssary means the power of the capitalist state opposition to them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democracy The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale, Capitalism has not onlv created a worid market, it has create world politics. Thus we fight for working class units on an internationa scale. This unity imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in fati America. Africa and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdraw al wl-British-roop from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future The Communist Parties in Europe "Euro-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings have ans meaningtu strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state socialist parties are more necessars than ever before. Conditions toda are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties car only be buile by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracs not as luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions an will in the long run be decisive in defeating both th -are in crisis Seither thi

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