BUILD THE PARTY TOGETHER Letter from the International Marxist Group to the Socialist Workers Party

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the SWP leadership by the IMG.

Dear Comrades, relation to the SWP. THE International Marxist Group conference, held six weeks ago, decided to redouble the efforts of the towards overcoming the fragmenIn particular it decided to step up the fight for unity with the SWP. Below we print the letter sent to We are writing to inform you of the decisions of our national conference and the recent meeting of our Central Committee in First, our conference voted to withdraw the resolution sent to you in July 1978 as the basis of relations between our organisations. Our conference passed a new resolution Why Fighting for a Joint Revolutionary Organisation with the SWP(UK) is a central task discuss this question. joint organisation. We believe that such a political basis for a common organisation exists; and that such an organisation could act as a powerful pole of attraction to workers breaking from reformism, as well as challenging the CP as the main organisation to the left of the Labour Party. Such an organisation could have an impact far greater than the sum of its two parts. On the basis of these conference decisions, our Central Committee decided to propose to you a joint meeting of our two leaderships to We further make the following proposals for joint activity: * That the IMG and SWP launch a joint campaign to build a recall Defend Our Unions Conference. * That we organise a joint march to the TUC between the South Wales Youth March Committee and the Right to Work campaign. * That we discuss the possibility of fighting for the fusion of the trade union tendencies that our organisations support. centralism. between us of both a tactical and programmatic character; those which we regard as central are outlined in the document passed at our conference. In particular we think the SWP should be part of the Fourth International. Nonetheless we feel that these should be debated out in a common organisation based on democratic We remain convinced that the irresponsible splitting of the revolutionary left is an obstacle to the building of a serious alternative to reformism, and thus revolutionary socialism and building a revolutionary party. We therefore urge you to seriously consider the proposals that we make, and to suggest an early date for a meeting between our respective leaderships.

We look forward to a speedy reply.

Revolutionary greetings International Marxist Group Political Committee , to winning workers to