IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 159, 7 August 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 243 words

The scan: sc-n159-aug-07-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 2 of the scan

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 iwo vital fasks contronting revolutionary socialists are:

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

• To hegin lo fight for the creation unified democratie revolutionary socialist organisation which can, application of united front racernatibe in 1° berusends an alternative thousands workers engaged in struggles.

such an organisation should be based on the understanding that:

The struggle for socialism seeks to unite the fight of iworkers against the with that of other oppressed layers of snciety - women, black people, gays rusking for liberation. This socialism can only be achieved by crealing new organs of power and defeating with all necessar, means the power of the Our socialisin will infinites more democratic than what exists in Britain roday, with fult rights for political parties and currents that do not lake up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of 'socialism' in the USSR and Eastern Europe have discredited socialism in the eres ol millions of workers throughout ihe We are opposed to them and will offer full support lo all those fighting for socialist democracy.

The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism

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