IMGpapers 1980–83

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

IMG 1980 CADRE SCHOOL

Socialist Challenge No. 152, 19 June 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 367 words

The scan: sc-n152-jun-19-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

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cupation and it took place on 14 May, a fortnight after the CGT AN exciting programme of debate, relaxation, and a genuine battle of ideas is lined up for the summer school of the International Marxist Group 1980. Send in your money now to receive a full programme of events, details of venue, plus reading lists. Attendance at the school is open to members and sympathisers of the IMG, Revolution Youth and the 4th International.

I am interested in coming to the summer school. I am a member of the IMG/Revolution/I am a sympathiser of the IMG/RevoluName/Address .

lenclose a cheque/PO for towards the £47.50 cost of the schoo Cheques payable to 'The Week Society' splits and fusions. If the LSA refuses fusion today because of 'tactical' disagreements, then logically it can only be waiting for tactical agreement.

The basis of party unity, however, is not this or that tactic, but the fundamental programme of socialist revolution — expressed in the programme of the Fourth International. If the LSA does, as it says, stand in political solidarity with the Fourth International, then it should fuse with the FI and build it.

There is a more serious side to the position of the LSA. Its position logically leads to & justification of splits in the event of tactical disagreement; with this irresponsible position it is impossible to anything but a dead-end bureaucratic sect.

While the IMG considers that the position adopted by the LSA aggregate is irresponsible and only perpetuates the splitting of the Trotskyist movement into '57 varieties' which have no fundamental programmatic difference, the IMG will continue its policy of joint work and discussions with the LSA. The door remains open for the LSA to put its programme of solidarity with the Fl into practice — by fusing its forces with those of the Fourth International in Britain and jointly building the revolutionary party.

from 12-18 July, ..... (Town) since tactical disagreements are inevitable in

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