Ine question or waien forces snould replace Wilson has to be posed dialectically. The issue will be resolved in the course of a struggle to remove the present leadership. It is no good standing around asking - will it be Bill or will it be Benn?
which makes an error on this count. It is the one current on the far left which has scrousy dopearce to succest meat ErG lefts must take the power. It was SocialISt Press, not Red Weekly which on 11 September carried the healine Lefts Must Oust Wilson'. If the IMG is to be accused of Pabloism'on this score, then the WSL must take its place alongside us in the dock.
The line of the IMG means in prac tice that where large numbers of workers have illusions in the lefts we have to acmana certam dermie steps trom taem. Instead of weeping over the impact of the £6 limit and unemployment on working class living standards, we demand that they support action against these measures, and fight for the recall of the TUC and Labour Party conferences to break with te covernment s poncies
The Internationalist Communist League (LCI-Portuguese sympathising organisation of the Fourth International), was formed in December 1973 - four months before the 25 April coup which overthrew the Caetano dictatorship.
Two years later, after tremendous class struggles, very significant progress has been achieved. The third congress of the LCI on 10-11 January recorded a twelvefold increase in membership, an expansion ncu neenly a major error was made. An ultra-lett position linked to an accommodation to Stalinism was taken up, which led to the signing of the 25 August declaration with the CP and other groups of the extreme left, and then to the creation of the FUR (Revolu tionary United Front). The 25 August declaration went beyond a correct position of physical defence of the Goncalves Government against the reactionary attacks being mounted on it, appearing to endorse rebruary 17r0