Setting straight on Rank and File

Socialist Challenge No. 168, 16 October 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 122 words

The scan: sc-n168-oct-16-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-1 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 7 of the scan

THE letter from J Nicholls coder accuses me nternational Marxist Group of 'sectarianism confu sion in its attitude to Rank & File Groups walll record suraigal as tar as Ene Teachers Alliance is concerned.

1. There is no 'open pennile vitation' nahl 1 cacuci with ll. AL 11S conference, R&F turned All that a boney Inal Inalviola members or ine can join R&F — hardly re-unity Nevertheless, there is considerable coupcallon DELWCCE LWO organisa preparing resolutions for conference, and principle Kank & File organisation une untee tront. wisa Ink were true. In fact, the issue divides and STA As we said to the R&F conicrence.

Many teacners now actical of she exets are executive.

This doesn't mean that they Other