Over the past few years, many IMG •ranches in moonan inousnar cantres have made major gains. Not through flyby-night recruiting stunts, but through a police or Weekly — the building of a class struggle opposition in the labour movement. The Truition or nese Dolicies is oisolayed in the North West, where we are faced with the necessity of opening a regional centre to meet our expanding needs.
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Weds 20 October: Robin hed Marxism ane rrooems or nevolutonary Weds 27 October: John Ross on Faction, Party and International.
Weds 3 November: Dave Purdy (CP) and Cere Gowan (IMG) debate Ine Class Nature of the USSR. have Weds 10 November: Michel Lowy on Marxism and Latin America.
Thurs 18 November: Tariq Ali.on 'Eurocommunism', the Italian Turn.
Weds 24 November: Hilary Wainwright on The Labour Party and the Working Class.
Fascism, Racism and the Strong State.
Weds8 December: lan Gough on Marxist Theories of the Welfare State.
All lo be nela at o pm In UMISI Students Union main hall (near Piccadilly Station).
Red Weeky SUBSCRIPTION RATES DOMESTIC: E7 per year £3.50 for six months FOREIGN: E9 per year surface mail E12 per year airmail We would like to invite you/your organisation to a meeting on Wednesday 27 October at 7.30 pm at Digbeth Civic Hall. Blackburn on The purpose of this meeting is to discuss the forthcoming Stechford by-election, and the response that working class organisations should be making to it.
In Stechford there is an opportunity to run a class struggle candidate. We believe that the fight against the policies of the Labour Government should be carried into the electoral arena. This by-election offers a platform for militants to extend the struggle for united front action to wider layers.
To those who argue that putting up candidates against the Labour Party splits Julan Alkinson on ano weakens me labour movement, we say that it is the attacks of the Labour Government that are cutting the living standards of the working class, and it is THe FraMi for a class struggle candidate to oppose ine Labour covernment s rigni wing policies is also being pursued in Birmingham Stechford, the seat which Roy Jenkins is shortly to resign. Birmingham IMG have sent the following letter to all left-wing organisations in the area posing the need for a united response:
candidate. the failure of the Labour Party and trade union leadership to organise against those attacks which calls for an alternative lead to be given. If the local Labour Party put forward a candidate committed to opposing the Labour Government's attacks, in bune MPs, we would not propose a In Stechford, we believe that if a candidate opposing the central attacks of the Labour Government is to have the maximum impact, then he or she musi have the broadest support of all those opposed to those attacks. It is for this reason that we have proposed this meeting on the Stechford by-election:
1. To discuss the platform of the candidate. We propose that this centres on: incomes policy, unemployment, the cuts in social expenditure, the struggle against racism, the demands of the Working Women's Charter, the withdrawal of troops from N. Ireland.
2. To discuss who the candidate should be. We have proposed Tariq Ali, but we are prepared to withdraw him in favour of a better candidate 3. To discuss the organisation of the campaign. We propose the election of a campaign committee, including representatives from each organisation supDorant the campair.
We will fight for the right of all tendencies and groups to put forward their own propaganda as well as that produced by the campaign committee an important opportunity for carrying forward the fight against Labour's attacks.
tions are not to be weakened by abstention or fragmentation, with several far left candidates, then a united response is BIRMINGHAM ING