Rising Committee ( a body dominated by the International Socialists).
Co-op Political Committee, is quoted by the paper as saving: 'If the Inter national Socialists want to have their Tany au lone marca for mer members. that is their business and they are fully nutca to organise mis. bur to nave it a week before the Assembly can only oc narmEu to moonsine Ior me Ass embly. All those who are genuinely a mine lor new poncies to reauce me The Political Committee of the IMG has discussed the progress of the £15,000 Fund Drive, which had an initial deadline of 31 January. So far (by 4 February) we have raised $6,546.
The Political Committee felt that although we had not achieved our target by the required time, an enormous amount of experience and knowledge had been gained by the IMG, putting us in a firm position to stabilise and extend the activities of the organisation. NevertheAlso:
Fighting for Workers Power in Portugal -the REPUBLICA film Red Star Folk Music Society singing workers songs from Co. Durham & elsewhere Gaitas Gallegas • Playing traditional pipe music from Spain cation is that the IS deliberately devised me whole mer or me rento work March in order to divert attention away from the Assembly. This is rubbish. The Right to Work March was called long before the Communist Party initiated the drive for the Assembly through the No. 8 District Committee or me cobo and te London co-op.
Militants who realy do put the interests of the working class first should bitterly oppose the CP's attempt to cut off support for the Right to Work March in the labour movement. ***************************** less, if we fail to make our target, the work of building the IMG will be very gravely hampered. The PC, in extending the January deadline to 5 March, issued an urgent appeal to the membership and supporters of the IMG: Keep the money pouring in!' For the first time, however, we have organised a Fund Drive in which every comrade of the organisation has been involved. We have conducted a campaign among our sympathisers and in the working class as a whole to convince them minimum wage or 2eu per week Manchester on 28 February and ends with a rally in the Albert Hall on 20 March. Details can be obtained Trom Rank & File Organising Committee, takes place in Westminster's Central Hall on 27 March. Details from: "Assembly, No. 8 Confederation London WCH 8NJ. that Trotskyist polities have to be fought for, not merely through propaganda, but by organisation and agitation.
campaign has stamped out a certain petty-bourgeois attitude towards finance in our own ranks and those of our sympathisers. Where previously the question of funds has been considered a certain necessary embarrassment in the course of our political work, we are now beginning to see the fight for finances as being an absolutely necessary part 20, Enday Match St Rooms Bidborough St. near Kings X tube Admission 50p District Secretary, 28 Denmark Street, working class.
To do this requires money. This ment and the cuts abortion position adopted by the Labour Party and TUC conferences, many used the excuse of their 'consciences' to vote for the reconvening of the anti-abortion Select Committee. This means that the campaign will have to be stepped up to bring these MPs to account before the working class people they claim to represent. ********************xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx of the fight to build a revolutionary party in the British and world Because of these old bad attitudes, the fight to correct them has obviously taken time and involved mistakes. The leadership of the IMG did not sufficiently prepare the organisation politically to carry through the fight, given the inexperience of our comrades in this work In the branches, a certain conservatism was experienced; the old adage of 'having to spend money to make money' was not fully observed.
Nevertheless, we are already getting very material benefits from the money we have received so far. Red Weekly has been able to purchase a new type-setting machine and a headliner. The IMG has been able to service another campaigns organiser. This comrade has travelled up and down the country organising the work of the IMG in the fight against unemployThe success of the Bloody Sunday Commemoration Committee demonstration. in which the IMG played a leading role, has also confirmed the position of our org anisation as a leading force in solidcloser. arity with the struggle of the Irish people against British imperialism.
This would not have been possible if we had not been able to take on an extra organiser for this campaign.
One of the major attacks faced by the working class today will be stepped up in the imminent White Paper on Government Expenditure, which will try to deal a smashing blow to the social services won by the working class through decades of struggle. The IMG has taken on an organiser over the last few months to spearhead our campaign here, especially the fight to defend
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