IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Getting straight on numbers

Socialist Challenge No. 146, 8 May 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 217 words

The scan: sc-n146-may-08-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

April) describes as an error the claim that the tionary organisation in Western Europe or North America because 'an organisation usuallv classified as revolutionary, one that organises against the Spanish state, the LCK-LKI, a section oi ine rourth international, is al least twice the size of the SWP (UK)

That would give the LCR-LKI over 7,000 members. Unfortunately, the LCR-LKI delega. tion al ine recent worle congress of the Fourth International was elected on the basis of only 1,500 mem bers - an ee / in trying to cover up this fact since the SWP (UK) were there as ooservers. All sucn. over. estimations of our own forces in fact do is to distract attention from the political significance ol the fight to build the Fl as the only existing revolutionary International MARTIN METEYARD, London I WAS somewhar surprised to set Sexualist Challenge printing a 24 Aprily chich indulzed in falie breai! beating about the movement.

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course not made i more kev inal ce Steelworkers Charter, so dear to the SWP, might actually have been endorsed by the Stocksbridge strike committee as the comrade now falsely claims Comrades in the growth of the real rank and should get the new IMG pamphlet essons orine weet sirike anoine

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