IMGpapers 1976–79

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 90, 5 April 1979 · p. 2 of the scan · 470 words

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Socialist Challenge 5 April 1979 These candidatures will be used to stimulate mass actions in defence of Irish freedom and for 'Troops Out Now' - in the end the only way the workers and the oppressed in Britain will be won to the side of the Irish people. Now more than ever, our ability to support these initiatives will be a test of our commitment to the WONTHSI class.

revolutionary socialists are: * To build Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trades unions offer solutions that are in the interests, not of the workers, but of the capitalist Doclanst challenge beneves taa The TWO VIAL ASKS struggle TendeRcies: 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 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 light of the workers against the bosses with that of other oppressed layers of society shack people cars - sirueeinetortner lineration associalism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all confronting opposition to women, them and will offer full support to all those fighting for socialist democraes.

The interests of workers and capitalists are irreconcilable on a world scale. Capitalism has not oniy created a world market, it has created • world politics, Jhus we rignttor working crass unny on an internanona. scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal of British troops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future:

The Communist Parties in Europe are in crisis. Neither the "Euro-communist not the pro-Moscow wings have any meaningful strategy for the overthrow of the capitalist state. New revolutionary socialist parties are more necessary than ever before. Conditions today are more favourable than over the preceding three decades. But such parties can only be built by rejecting sectarianism and seeing internal democracy not 'as a luxury but as a vital necessity. This means the right to organise factions and

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