IMGpapers 1980–83

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

OUR Why we'llbe fighting for unity with the Socialist Workers Party

Socialist Challenge No. 138, 13 March 1980 · p. 10 of the scan · 428 words

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Lea Nazi OP STOP TH the Labour Party. Encourage all sections of above criticism. conference. today essentially Those and so on — on the Seventies of the revolutionary irrelevance. the women's movement.

it had first elaborated at its 1978 conference. an objective need FIGHTING for revolutionary unity in Britain means fighting between the Socialist Workers Party and the International Marxist Group.

who believe that revolutionary organisation can be built outside the existing groups — through socialist centres • are living in a dream world.

Similarly those who imagine that because the SWP is the largest revolutionary group in this country that it can by-oass the others, becoming the sole revolutionary force simply of its size, are likely to b disappointed in the Eighties as they were in the A fusion between the forces of the SWP and the IMG would change the whole appearance REVOLUTIONARIES on the British left are clear in their criticism of the politics of the Labour Party, but revolutionaries themselves are not 'Which of the 57 varieties of revolutionary group do you want us to join?', is the jibe on the lips of social democrats, and a serious problem for many independent revolutionaries in the trade unions and around At its last conference the International Marxist Group reaffirmed its position in favour of a fight for regroupment of all revolutionaries which It also took a decisive step forward along this path by placing especial emphasis on the need for a regroupment between the Socialist Workers Party and the IMG. The following article is based on the document 'Why fighting for a joint revolutionary organisation with the SWP (UK) is a major task of the IMG' by Alan Jones, that was passed by the recent IMG to outrank the unions. enhanced with a fused organisation for unity united reformism in the working class.

It channels leftism Socialist an Other This is not the case with the Communist Party. Revolutionaries have already been able CP gains at its expense, both on the electoral level and in some These possibilities would be greatly The objective role of the CP, since it stopped being a revolutionary party , has been to bolster the hold of the Labour Party and those militant workers who begin to break with social democracy back into the ambit of the Labour leaders. Moving to the CP for socialist answers they find it tailends the Labour lefts and endorses their approach.

Between lyly-s I was le CP's ultra- its refusal to contemplate united fronts with the Labour Party, its analysis that it

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