IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Unions' North Sea record not good

Socialist Challenge No. 143, 17 April 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 309 words

The scan: sc-n143-apr-17-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

Trotskv was addressing the Moscow Organisation of the Russian Communist Party on the occasion or te alro wor Congress of the Communist internanonai He was referring to the call for 1 general strike by Committee of the German Communis ParV -tens of thousands of members and certainly much more deeply rootea in tne working class than the combined forces of all those groups in Britain Icvululual y currently calling for a general "The masses,' said Trotsky, "simo v taue o acerno me He then dealt with those nen ccrcrc d cc German CP (who) .. acknowledging that this summons was a mistake... (propounded) the theory that in a revolutionary epoch we are obliged to conduci exclusively an agressive policy...

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- for, leaving aside the structural faults, why could so few workers get off the rig and into te boats? No company faced with regulations imposed on operators can complain of unfair Nationalist Party (PNV).

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