BIG FLAME does not in principle, or in the medium term, reject the idea of being part of a revolutionary organisation, which would include the IMG, the ISA, and other political tendencies.
However, after much discussion within our organisation, Big Flame has decided not to sign the joint appeal on presented by the IMG and ISA.
The appeal as it stands contains much we would agree with, since we have always been in favour of, and engaged in, joint work wherever possible.
but te polncal basis or tne initiative, the differentiation of revolutionaries from reformists, is not sufficient for regroupment or discussion of regroupment organisation, the eventual aim of this initiative.
We believe it covers up other important areas of debate on BOURSE TO ENTIRE *The type of revolutionary strategy and tactics that are necessary in the conditions of class struggle of post-war capWe would agree with Richard Hyman's response to Ine appeal in Socialist Challenge, stressing the importance of tre-thinking some of the analyses and theories which have failed us in the past'.
The appeal gives the impression that the tasks of revolutionaries are unproblematical, that the left has a common understanding and agreement on what these tasks are.
*An explanation for the retreat in class struggle in the post-war penod.
*The relationship between revolutionary organisation and the autonomous movements — women, blacks, gays.
*An of why many thousands of have experienced revolutionary organisations as a *revolving door through which they pass, either into a further one, or into none.
We feel that the IMG is, at the moment, closed to a far-reaching debate BIG FLAME's refusal to sign Orientation Towards SWP.
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