IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Malcolm X

Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) Vol. 3, No. 6, June 1980 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 211 words

The scan: Socialist Action v3 no6 Jun 1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 4 of the scan

His Writings:

The Autobiography of Malcolm X Malcolm X Talks to Young People Two Speeches by Malcolm X of the most promina:

Copies of the shove are Auckland Rs. Malcolm X evolved, during his brief life, into the most prominant Black Freedom Fighter in the USA. Gunned down in 1965, Malcolm had begun to show thousands of Blacks the need to define their own historv. to demand their rights and to stand up and fight for them.

his evolution as a Black Freedom Fighter, Malcolm became con•*le would have to be related to a broader struggle ins: iapitalism. His writings are those of one the situation.

But no enquiry can remove the causes of the Bristol explosion any more than they can that in Miami. Those causes lie in a system which is built on poverty and racial injustice.

SOLIDARITY blems facing Black people - as those facing all working people -is by struggling to remove that system which creates poverty & racism. That means developing a united fight against the Tories is ard unemploymen: plans.

But it also means supporting Black people in their self-defence against police attacks and winning the labour movement to fight seriously against the racist laws which condone police violence.

page 5 of the scan

June 80

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