Unlike any other of the political organisations in Walsall, the IMG has been consistently active over the last year in the fight against cuts in public expenditure and racism. Prior to the by-election, that fight had already notched up some successes. In an area where for a long time ine working class has had a history of passivity, a local cuts committee and an action group against racism were established.
In September a meeting organised to build an anti-racist demonstration attracted over 70 militants. On 24 October Tariq Ali spoke at a meeting around the elections in Birmingham was atteneed people. IMG members and supporters canvassed heavily for McCallum last Saturday as the election date drew close. tionary struggle against capitalism: the mobilisation of workers in the struggle are in lal No, struggle for workers Jimmy McCallum the same thing: 'A vote for me is a vote for you. It's a declaration that you will go on fighting for socialism after the election.
Jimmy McCallum and the International Socialists are actually doing in the campaign goes against these fine intentions. which Jimmy McCallum is putting Jimmy over, as he explained to Red Weekly a fortnight ago, is the building of the Socialist Workers Party.
unless these were subordinated to the task of building the Socialist Workers Party.
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members in Newcastle discussed the progress of the campaign with Dave Hayes:
candidate cased upon nestae acror Committee Against the Cuts (TACAC], the Right to Work Committee, the Working Women's Charter Groups, Tyneside Socialist Centre, and other bodies which contain people of widely differing political views but which are prepared to fight the anti-working class policies of the Labour Government. Why did S Dui forward their own candidate, rather than fighting for a class struggle candidate supported by these bodies?
alternative to the Labour Government's policies believe that the policies we have are the way forward, so we decided to stand candidates in two by-elections, and Newcastle. Side by side with that we are trying to build a rank-and-file movement towards the building of that socialist alternative building a new Socialist Workers Party where we would try to involve people in the fight back into the campaign, and involve them in that campaign toward building the new party.
Labour Government, so what sort of alternative programme do you put forward?
unemployment, to the hospital closures. We want to see the strengthening of the Right to Work Campaign nationally and fight against unemployment and the cuts. During the three weeks campaign we've been doing so far, while we've been going round the factories and hospitals we've the 6 November conference at Belle Vue.
we think is the line of building the SWP On Tyneside many of the people involved North Tyneside Housing Campaign, are actually members of the Labour Party, and we've just had a Labour Against the Cuts set up in North Tyneside. How do you see your campaign relating to these people?
First, we relate 10 those people by taking up a fight against unemployment through the Rioh, to Work Camnaion SUPPORTBLACK