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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

AFTER THE REVOLUTION

Red Weekly No. 186, 10 February 1977 · p. 8 of the scan · 405 words

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page 8 of the scan

page • Govern and WOrK gives this objective account of the under the heading 'Revolutionaries' This brings to the revolutonaries wro benevine our ore sent societ irremedially corrupt, want to smash it and re institutions that will enable man to live a life uncontined by ine dead practices of the past. *They are prepared to see things pressed, that their policies might chaos for a number of years. But then. •Many people can remember the 1930s when there was the misery of mass unemploymen cent or ne entire workino poou ation. But even then there were 80 Chaos would per cent ployed and 20 pe all costs. Change, yes land this must be avolded ar ai cosis book is a plea for change] but always, we may hope, from worse to better course, revolutionary especial young people. But the new dawn envisaged will not be the golden sunrise of our imagination, viewed now me mountan top, Wittal uke wine and we, nand in nand with our comrades [of the other sex, of course] running down to meet the old. If the revolutionaries have their way we shall be shuffiin me asnes or a bum ou civiSaTIon.

• *the demoralising effect of the "Peace Movement"

the account of the "Peace Movement" given u une a vars column to rawer more accuralt which aoosar in une cabitalisi it to say that as a fifth column ghettoes, the 'Peace the reassertion of bipartisanship in Britain *the failure of the trade union bureaucracy in the detence of living standards is naver aloo we can leave to me wade union bureaucrats. However. ine orowems inar ine Southern Irish trade union leadership has experienced in concluding a new National Wage Agreement points to the restrictions which are imposed on it by the militancy of the Southern workers over the past yethe failure of the Provisionals to make the political turns required in an increasingly difficult situation for • I think this was amply dealt with in Dieves last two points seem to me to snow ine wrong method. In confining himself to the leadership of the mass organisations, he fails to recognise the of the struggles which the vanguard layers Indeed, all of Steve's proots co no turmer nan une accompisneo tact and so his method is more likely to lead to the 'political of success, imperialisn turtner away trom cementing together a are my personal views and not

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