Two new journals of the Fourth International shady-looking characters who play the Three Card Trick. On the evidence of his article on the Crosby by-election (SC 224) I reckon he would get taken every time.
The Trick relies 01) sleight of hand. The punters' eye is distracted from the real action and be gets conned. So with Phil's articie.
Overly impressed with among political observers" (ie tory press pundits) in their specula110)133 about the next Ceneral Election, ne seems have momentarily lost reality through being dazzled in power.
the 074gramme of the SOP (in so AT THE END of January, two new journals of the Fourth International in English will appear - International Viewpoint and International Marxist Review. International Viewpoint will be a fortnightly news service produced in Paris. Its aim is to provide the workers movement with more in depth coverage of world events than is possible in the framework of a weekly paper. It will translate into English major articles from the press of the entire Fourth The introductory issue will be a double issue and arpear on 25 January. It will contain major articles on each sector of the world revolution. tion on 22 February, International bourgeois one, so far no significant section of the bosses have switched their alegance from the Tory Party The SDP's main base i those layers squeezed berween the iwo major classes society and depends upon the blec key of the cactical differences the 'bang of tour The Alliance has coherent alternative strategy to "Thatcher's.
this makes extremely unhkeiy the possibility of SDP Alhance Government.
Starting regular publicaSo whar would happen A lhance's wagon rolls on unchecked the labour movement? The moni likely outcome surely would he a government of National Unity' of all the bourgeois parties.
The ruling class would find the option of chopping Thatcher and ceding proportional representation retain thie Tory government in o! a national coalition.
A lar more atractiva cheice to that of relying on an inexperienced Cabinet acoendent on the saare sands of middle-class electoral sumport.
The miedia's support for the Alliance should be seen therefore as part of a Viewpoint will be an indispensable guide to world politics for militants in the revolutionary movement. We appeal to all supporters of the Fourth International in Britain to subscribe to and support this journal. International Marxist Review will be the English language version of Quatrième Internationale the theoretical journal of the Fourth International, which appears three times a year and contains longer theoretical articles from leaders and militants of the Fourth International The first issue of International Marxist Review contains articles on Poland and the bureaucracy by Ernest Mandel, the French OCI by Daniel Bensaid, Soviet influence and neocolonialism in Africa by Claude being over. whelmingly rejected.
rehearsed 'coalition the election he hung on to try and get a deal jereiny Thorpe's Liberals Our job as Marxists is to expose this Three Card Trick not to play the game If we can iurn the labour which mails the lie of the SDP being an alternative 1o the Tories we can ensure the next government is a socialist policies.
The balance of class torces is on our side. the very fact that the bosses such game with the SDP instead of rolying solely on the right-wing Labour available in French Letter! eter etters- ter
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I ADVISE Phil Hearse if he ever goes down Lon- don's Oxford Street to keep away from the