The IMG Conference needs to decisively re-orient our organisation if the IMG is going to be in the forefront of the growing mass anti-Tory movement. We want to link up with new layers of militants who are today fighting to defend their democratic rights and living standards. But this involves new tactics for the different problems we face.
Furthermore, cónference cancentrate on more fundamental issues. must decide to end the abnormal situation where large numbers of comrades are outside the core sections of the working class. The IMG was built primarily out of the youth radicalisation of the late 1960s.
Today new opportunities exist for fighting for our politics in the factories and industrial unions. The question facing the conference i whèther the IMG will follow the rest of th Fourth International in politically convincing the bulk of our members to take industrial jobs so that the opportunities are not lost, and so we are best placed in thé decisive battles to come A related task is to consolidate our initial successes in building a revolutionary youth organisation. provide firm basis revolutionary-minded youth solidarity with the Fourth International.
But all these steps involve a sharp break with the orientation we defended under Labour. need organisations; a drastic change in our newspaper Socialist Challenge; and a more approach to education, and branch and fraction organisation.
Set-back The election of the Tories was undoubtedly a set-back for the working class. However, events since then have reinforced the view that a defeat for Callaghan was not a defeat for the working class. The Tories want to roll back the social. economic and organisational gains won by the class since 1945. But the working class is strongly organised, and capable of fighting back We are not in for a simple re-run of the mass action which brought down Heath. There will be casualties along the way. But it won't be an easier road for the ruling class. The especially Zimbabwe and Ireland — threaten to combine with and deepen the domestic crisis.
the central issues raised. needs to Our conference decisions should winning to political to the Tendency systellati Tories.
Communist disastrous consequences for the bureaucracy.
The IMG struggle left wing crisis of British projects in organisational But part of making the mass struggle politically count is by polarising the Labour Party around The Labour Party may be a 'hollow drum', but its reverberations extend into very wide layers of the working class. Our primary task is to build a class struggle left wing in the unions, but this is linked to taking the fight into the Labour Party Two for united trade union/Labour Party action to bring down the This approach is sharply opposed to the Party's 'Broad Leftism', whose were clearly revealed with the paralysis of the CP under Labour when the "darlings of the left rubber-stamped the Social Contract. The Socialist Workers Party's Rank and File groupings have not engaged in any such class collaboration, but their strategy has utterly failed to make even the slightest problems needs to fight for its 'OWI - for a united front, and a class challenge union leadership in the fight for class struggle policies On this basis, in each union, a tactical judgement is made about how our members can best fight for our line of march: in the Broad Left, in Rank and File, or in other union formations. But in all cases, we aim to take Rank and File with us:
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