LSA steps back from unity | IMGpapers 1980

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Their hourly Essentially, the comrades Also THE League for Socialist Action is a small Trotskyist organisation with members in London and the Midlands. The International Marxist Group and the LSA have been in discussions for some time, and well over & year ago the LSA voted to fuse its forces with those of the IMG. In line with this policy, members of the LSA leadership were given the right to attend IMG leadership meetings.

the IMG's national conference At a recent aggregate, however, the comrades of the LSA took a step backwards from this perspective of fusion. While agreeing to fuse its forces with those of the IMG 'at some future stage', and re-affirming its position of political solidarity with the Fourth International, it was decided that fusion with the IMG was impossible in the short term, because of tactical differences.

positions adopted by the IMG conference on revolutionary unity and on the orientation to the Labour Party.

The IMG considers that the decision reveals a misunderstanding by the comrades on the programmatic basis of build a party, of the LSA disagreed with the