IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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· Socialist Challenge No. 146, 8 May 1980 · p. 10 of the scan · 264 words

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page 10 of the scan

all other actions that can turn this desire into a real and living moveEven more movements of women. cam- youth have sprung themselve NAC and the ANL. The Labour Parpush behind them, has had to them, but forced to support them. In short, Social Democracy faces a serious challenge to its leadership of tOT important mass movements.

This combination of a crisis of given perspective.

and loss of leadership has made the Party's crisis much more acute. Local activists are being drawn into mass machine.

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develop dramatically, mass • blacks and demands up, expressing trail uncomfortably New Titles powerless to control increasing mass action, 01-226 0571 oppose any strategy, such as that of the Militant, but also of the Labour left, that tries to direct the movement into a fight for • a left parliamentary programme, conducted through the party's electoral We need policies to defeat the this is true. But those should be policies for action, not for procrastination. We should not concentrate on what the next Labour government may do, but on what the present Labour Party is doing. . The commitment we demand of a future government flows logically from our present The most important task is to struggle around those needs, and to create such a movement in the unions that the next government will either be forced to recognise For cede to Arguments Within English Marxism 1 Anderson Verso Editions, £3.95 Writing by Candlelight Merlin Press, $2.70 328 Upper Street, London N1. Tel

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