Above all, the strength of the class can turn today's, defensive struggles into offensive battles. But the existence and role of the reformist bureaucracy is a major obstacle. These leaders, when they can't directly sabotage the action -Robinson's sacking - will try to divert it into harmless parliamentary channels.
however conuuulle relative independence leadership movement. to head up the struggles, as the best way Ol attempting to control them.
Absolutely decisive therefore is our fight for united front and transitional demands objectives which is the only road to polarise the ranks against the utopian and disastrous road offered by the reformist misleaders and to limit their room for manoeuvre and betrayal. This is the road to building a party, an alternative leadership rather than a sect.
Decisive This orientation, unions' cannot limit itself to this. Ihe decisive class struggle forces ongoing way by the Labour Party and there is a burning need to win Labour Party activists to involvement in the mass action from the outside.
as Dutty did, over not they fully agree strength and rank and file especially in the shop stewards • will tend to force the bureaucracy as well as the SWP.
but this programme whilst centring the are not organised in ar As the struggles develop, revolutionaries of action will emerge from the labour movement. We must link up with all those who in practice take up the overall tasks of the period, whether or the revolutionary marxist programme at the outset. But successful fusion with them in the future depends on a correct attitude today towards revolutionary currents that exist: the small Trotskyist groups, For 30 years the SWP has tried to build itself against the Fl. Its re-orientation in the late '60s has led it to take more or less class struggle positions in the last decade. The practice of the SWP means we characterise it as revolutionary practice objectively SWP's formal programme and tradition. While in the next few years the main cadre for building the FI in Britain won't come from the SWP, the fight to build a revolutionary party adequate to lead revolution clearly involves a battle to fuse with the SWP, to form a unified section of the FI.
There are no short-cuts or gimmieks that car build the IMG. We will win new members only if we have a clear line of march which takes into account the new political situation but above all decisivély re-orients the IMG towards the labour
The 1980 Conference of the International Marxist Group meets on 16-19 February in London. Delegates to the conference are elected from the branches after a three-month discussion in local branches and elected committees.
During the course of the discussion every member of the organisation has the right to submit their views to an internal discussion bulletin. More importantly, members have the ' right to organise tendencies to gain the maximum support for their views.
The IMG has a tradition of publicising its pre-conference debates, believing that . issues being debated out are of importance and interest to people outside its ranks.
In these two pages we feature the views of four currents of opinion inside the IMG; three tendencies and a group of comrades on the Central Committee of the IMG who do not agree with any of these tendencies.
the tion, and black liberation.
Other extracts of the debate will be decided on by the majority of delegates. featured in Socialist Challenge between now and the conference and a full report of the proceedings will be made. The topics being discussed by the conference include our strategs in Britain, the Tory government and the tasks of revolutionaries, building & youth organisaAfter the conference, it is usual for tendencies to dissolve and the whole organisation works together to implement the positions