IMGpapers 1980–83

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

OUR POLICIES

Socialist Challenge No. 158, 31 July 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 311 words

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Capitalism 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 iwo vital tasks revolutionary socialists are:

• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition to class-collaborationism labour movement. These should in grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.

• To begin to fight for the creation unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisation which can. an application of tactics. begin lo be seen alternative by thousands workers enegged in strugoles Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for unite the fight of workers against frie 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 necessary means the power of the capitalist state.

• infinitely more democrats Our socialism than what exists in today, with full rights for politicai parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of "socialism' in the USSP. and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and wil! offer full support to fighting for socialist democracy.

3 or won eat Capitaim The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism has created market. it has created world politics. Thus we fight for working class unity on an scale. This unity will in the long run be decisive in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships sustain in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

in Britain it implies demanding British trops from Ireland and letting the Irish people determine their own future.

The C'ommunist parties in confronting character,

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