IMGpapers 1980–83

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

IMG £6000 emergency fund drive

Socialist Challenge No. 144, 24 April 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 318 words

The scan: sc-n144-apr-24-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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Capitalism is in crisis. The leaders of the Labour Party and the trade unions offer solutions that are in the interests not of iht but of the capitalist class.

Socialist Challenge believes that the iwo vital tasks confronting revolutionary socialists are:

• To build broad-based class struggie lenuencies in opposition to class-collaborationism in the labour movement. be non-exciusive grouping together militants hold ing a wide range of political views.

• To begin to fight for the cent steel strike.

South

helped bulletins.

file strike committee.

These should character, and through front THE IMG put everything it had into the reWe had organisers permanently in the field, based in the vital areas of Yorkshire and South Wales. get out rank and file We played a key role in helping steel workers organise the national rank and In Llanwern, a week after the strike ended, 22 steel workers attended a meeting of Steel Sheet — a rank and file strike bulletin associated initially with the IMG. Members and down the country.

Workers Group at Fords Dagenham. of the IMG accommodated flying pickets up Inside Fords, IMG members of the Fords took the initiative challenging the reformist leadership to win the right of the steelworkers to close down Fords. We helped to distribute 20,000 leaflets Two leading strike leaders, Colin Herd and Bernard Connolly, are going to carry out a speaking tour for the Swiss and Belgian sections of the Fourth International in the near future.

in its resources.

end of June.

fund.

50, London N1.

But leaflets, bulletins and organisers all need money. The IMG has seriously depleted To carry forward our campaigns and projects we urgently need money. We have set the modest target of f6000 by the We ask all IMG members, and all our readers to give generously to this Send cheques, postal orders made out to "The Week' to: Socialist Challenge, PO Box

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