IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 147, 15 May 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 260 words

The scan: sc-n147-may-15-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Capitaiism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of the workers but of the capitalist class.

Socialist Challenge believes that the two vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:

• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should De r non-exclusive in grouping together militants hold ing a wide range of political views • To begin to fight for the creation of unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can, through an application of united front begin to be seen as an alternative by thousands workers engaged in struggles.

Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for seeks to unite the fight of WOrKCES with that of other oppressed layers of society — women, black people, gays struggling for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of ine capitanst Stalt.

Our socialism will

infinitely more democratic I than what exists in Britain today. with fail rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models "socialism' in the USSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of throughour the world.

We are opposed to them and will offer full support to fighting for socialist democracy. THATCHER's first year of government has choose' and 'individual liberty'. Yet it only has the *The nationalisation under workers control of

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