IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Dyslexia - not an illness

· Socialist Challenge No. 154, 3 July 1980 · p. 15 of the scan · 392 words

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page 15 of the scan

I WAS horrified to read the note Brain aamage. on tne letters page of the 12 June issue of Socialist Challenge.

Manv peonle who have dvs exia are stigmatised as "sick' by competitive capitalist societies wich are oosessea will 'intelligence'. corporated dyslexia and the stigmatisation of people who have dyslexia into the wider class Your attitude to dyslexia is ¡ney are ad codes coco done to the way you cover gay and related news. 1 all bay lwchly Tour ours andy. trade unions, and not just in every five or ten issues of Socialist Challenge.

EDWARD BELL, London Wise not to EVEN by your own standards the decision or cne Lcazuc 101 Socialist Action not to fuse with the International Marxist Group is printuica. • Drincioca You reported (19 June) that the 'LSA disagreed with the posinons acootea oy une aw conference on revolutionary unity..' It is a disagreement with the IG's strategic and programmatic position that the Socialist Workers Party is a revolutionary organisation with whom the IMG could unify in principle It would appear that the 'Bishop of Chester has a clearer understanding of this than the unity zealots of Upper Street. In a letter to the limes recently on unity between the Anglican and Roman Catholic churches, he , but it 'However, a dictum of Lenin concerning the desirability and . uming ine varyllig. bodies of the Social Democratic Movement on a common platform is worth repeating:

we calling, and In order to unite, we must decisively and definitely draw a line of separation. Otherwise our union would be merely fiction, covering up the present confusion and preventing Is radical removal.

Although not a member of the LSA, it seems to me that they nave drawn a line on the questio have crown a ne on the oi your attitude to the SWP. In the present circumstances they would be wise not to cross it.

well known for their allacks reason for this attack on the perialism! and the meeting is Our society has inWing what we have done for the PHiL Hearse gave a good ac question. reversed.

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