IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 128, 3 January 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 290 words

The scan: sc-n128-jan-03-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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C'apitalism is in crisis. The leaders of ihe Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests Ine workers but of the capitalist class.

Socialist Chailenge believes that the (wo lasks rerolutionary socialists are:

• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition crass-collaDoralong I labour movement. These should non-exclusive grouping together militants hold ing a wide range of political views.

• To hegin to fight creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through united tactics. begin to De seen as an alternative thousands workers engaged in struegles.

Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that: norers again the passed The struggle unite the fight of seeks lo with that of other oppressed layers of society — women, black people, liberation. This socialism can only struggling be achieved by creating new organs of prwer and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state.

socialism infinitely more democratic than what exists in Britain today, with full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of 'socialism' in ine lok Fastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and will ofter full support to all those fighting for socialist democracy.

The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism has not onl! created created politics. Thus we fight for working class unity scale. This unity will in the long run he decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America. and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal British troops letting the Irish people determine

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