IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 143, 17 April 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 351 words

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page 14 of the scan

La general strike.

As the resolution of the 4th World Congress of the Comintern - wic carase• mre cg o a general strike by the French CP in 1922 put it: we must fit our siogans to tne reaalness and ability of the masses to act.' London 'autonomous' Statute of Autonomy late last ycal and the bourgeois Basque wE D LIke to expana on youl coverage (10 April) of the recent elections in the Basque country Sestao, rinstw. uie eecuons were to decide the composition of the new Basque usen te omcone orse Basque , That Statute was concoctec by the government party, Union of the Democratic Centre (UCD)

Spanish In the referendum on the Euzkadi (EMK) campaigned for abstention, winning substantial Since that time the pernicious Burnley IMG reality of the statute has become clear to masses of peonle who hac munne mm me doene • armoured cars on the streets and religion the drafting of General Sáenz de prisoners remain in iail. suffering constant harassment and torture drive for the restructuring oi Basque industry is underway as against pacts, and for self(The coalition to which you referred in your picture caption in issue 139 (20 March) was out together in Catalonia.)

The LKI waged a very effective campaign in the Basaur country. In the 'red' township of Ernest Mandel spoke to a rally of 2,000, many of whom were ola workers who naa livec through the civil war; Bernadette Devlin explained the need for an intransigent working class and internationalist perspective for macona doeraton ana sociausu. and Miguel Romero, of the Trotskyist organisation LCR. described the campaign that it was carrying out in the rest of Spain in solidarity and for the revolutionary unity of all the regions and nationalities of Spain against repression and cabilallst dusichily.

BARBARA PASSINGHAM DAVID PASSINGHAM feminism and nos leller in last weck s odoc rom Emma Craig and Charlie aalte conocn aooul n report (13 March) of the Armagh protest on International Women's Day seems to have tallen Drev t‹ the sectarianism it accuses me of.

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