IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 148, 22 May 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 287 words

The scan: sc-n148-may-22-1980.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 the workers but of the capitalist class.

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

• To build broad-based class struggle tendencies in opposition to class-collaborationism in the labour movement. These should be non-exclusive grouping together militants holding a wide range of political views.

• To begin in fight for the creation of unified democratic revolutionary socialist organisarion winco can. an application of united front alternative thousands workers engaged in struggles.

Such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for seeks in unite the fight of workers against the win tuat or ciner oppressed ragers of nociety weimen. biach peuple. iberation. This seetalism can onis struggling for be achieved by creating new organs of power and deleating with ali necessary means the prower of the capitalist state.

1 Our than what exists in Britain today, with full rights for political parties and currents that do not take up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of 'socialism' in the USSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eyes of millions of workers throughout the We are opposed to them and will offer full support fighting for socialist democracy.

The interests of workers and on a worldscale. C'apitalism has not only created created world polities. Thus we fight for working class unit! 07 an scale. This unit! will in the long run be decisite in defeating both the imperialist regimes in the West and the brutal dictatorships they sustain in Latin America, Africa and Asia.

In Britain it implies demanding the immediate withdrawal

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