IMGpapers 1976–79

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

OUR POLICIES 2

Socialist Challenge No. 87, 15 March 1979 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 381 words

The scan: sc-n87-mar-15-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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class. revolutionary socialists are: Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalist Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting * To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in 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 Such an organisation 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 - women black people, gays - struggling for their liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all cessary 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 sorld scale. Capitalism has not only created a world market. it has created scale. This units will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in latin America, Africa and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdraw al of British-troopfrom Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their twn future The Communist Parties in Europe are in Fire-communist nor the pro-Moscow wings hase ans meaningtu I strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionars L socialist parties are more necessary than ever hefore. Condition- todus are more averrehe tian over the orecesine taree occaoes Dursui parts Car only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracs not to a luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions an crisis. Neither the

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