Bad Taste no. 36: the IMG is not sectarian

The scan: sc-n85-mar-1-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 36 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: the IMG is not sectarian.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: in a Belfast pub the cartoonist asks an SWP member about left unity; she says the IMG are too sectarian, and he insists they are open to other groups — they only hate other members of the IMG. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 36, Socialist Challenge no. 85, 1 March 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE — Cormac #36.

2. "I was talking (in a Belfast pub, of course) to a woman who is a member of the Socialist Workers Party in England."

3. "And what do you think of the possibilities of greater unity among the various left groups in Britain?"

4. "It's possible — but your friends in the International Marxist Group are so sectarian!" "What! The I.M.G. is NOT a sectarian group!"

5. "Well — members of the I.M.G. are very open and non-sectarian to other left organisations —" "But they HATE other members of I.M.G."