IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 80, 25 January 1979 · p. 14 of the scan · 399 words

The scan: sc-n80-jan-25-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

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WALTHAM FOREST paper sales every eet regula yo detais from regularly London HAMLETS Socialist Chalfortnight SW LONDON sales every Saturday Clapham attitude should we take towards the IRA's new bombing campaign in this country! Geoff Bell's article (4 January) condemned the bombs as a diversion which will weaken the solidarity movement here. build support for Mason's policies. and give the British state an excuse to use more repression at home.

Our revolutionary duty to give unconditional support to those forces tactics. But any such should STENH the policies" unsuitability for winning the struggle, not because of any adverse effect on the left in the imperialist country - Britain in this case In fact, comrade Bell implies that it is the British movement for troops out, rather than the Irish Republican and socialist forces, which will be the withdrawal of British troops from Ireland. In thai case the Irish national liberation struggle can be conducted largely London, Leeds, and Liver pool! This is as bad as the old International Socialists* policy preaching from Britain about the need for a revolutionary party in Internationalism demands that the emphasis of our arguments should be on Britain's responsibility for the bombing campaign. Instead this point merits a few sentences, and the headline and boasts' sums up the tone of Bell's TEESSIDE READER (name/address HACKNEY Satur bai ston : 12-2pm, Sainsbury's WALTHAMSTOW readers can Soeradan s Nellesge rs d Hoe Sheridan's Newsagents, HACKNEY Socialist Challenge supmeets fortnightly on :30pm in the Britannia DIOD SChoO Jon Duveen (Hackney NUT)

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