IMGpapers 1980–83

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

No excuse holding back on solidarity

· Socialist Challenge No. 165, 25 September 1980 · p. 4 of the scan · 196 words

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POLAND is off the front pages. Heer STreet got communist mileage it could out of the Polish workers" struggle SHOVe On DastulCo But the need for solidarity remains crucial.

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Future Any true socialist must sav in response to the Polish workers' struggle: this is my cause, this is my kind of future.

The programme first developed by in late 1930s response to the degeneration of the Russian worker: state cas sortna to life in Poland. Yet some on the seem most concerned to distance ulcuserves from the move. ment.

Socialist Press, the paper of the Workers Socialist League, typical "But even while Polish workers cheer leaders talk of their fight it is at precisely this point

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