AS A member of the does that mean this let. ter won't be printed?) and a supporter of genuine revolutionary unity, Tam worried about the the IMG nue laken Dy towards the Labour Party.
Recent editions of Socialist Challenge have talked about the need to bulla a mass campaign ing Labour Party committed socialist policies! ( This is totally misleading in that it implies that the Labour Party capable of achieving socialism.
But socialism is not about the economy under the control of the bourgeois VIEWING THE RELEASE OF THE IRANIAN US HOSTAGES I sit viewing TV clap-trap about the released US prisoners held hostage for some months in Persia -boring announcers maunder on, evidently not even knowing which actual aircraft was flying the freed Americans back home.
I listen and watch closely, noting down the telly waffle.
"Let us be sure, "this really is the hostage plane....
It is incredibly difficult to say what's really going on."
IT'S NOT.
An ex-prisoner, 1 realise how these people must have suffered;
yet this jamboree is sad, absurd.
Who are these captives?
(Which their plane?)
The fuss, pomposity, concern Is hypocritical, ridiculous;
certainly it's not victorious.
What about the South East Asians?
Chileans under Pinochet?
South Koreans? Dominicans?
Victims of the CIA? seek.
It requires the revolutionary overthrow of the structures ciuamg parlament and their replacement by system of workers' councils to control society (this is explained in The State and Revolution by a n Lenin ussian writer, 1 Lenin).
can be a necessary tactic certain conditions - which do not exist at Marxists should not lose sight of the need build revolutionary party_ lead the overthrow of the Those IMG members who want to build such a party now should seriously consider splitting from their sectarian comrades and build the only real alternative the Socialist Workers Party.
GEOFF COLLIER, Hull "they keep repeating