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Proposals to IS: IMG statement

Red Weekly No. 63, 1 August 1974 · p. 6 of the scan · 215 words

The scan: rw-no63-aug-1-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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In the last two months the liternational Marxist Group has been attempting to get an agreement with the international Socialists on a num ber of ioint initiatives for the revolutionary left in the coming months.

In particular the IMG proposed:

1. Organising a united front of the whole revolutionary left on the 15 September Chile demonstration so as to break the attempt of the Comman it Party to marginalise those opposed to the idea of a peaceful road to socialism cul this demonstration.

anti-fascist mobilisations to organise a struggle for these actions to be clearly one based on a working class united front, and against attempts to extend it to "progressive forces" le Tories, vicars, ere.

3. To agree to the revolutionary organisations running candidates in the coming election and ngreeing to call for a vote fot each other's candidates.

The IS rejected all these proposals the latter one on the grounds that they would be calling for a vote for Labour at the next clection against uny candidates of the revolutionary In the next issue of Red Weekly we will be dealing with the replies of IS and also the policies spelt out by the 15 Executive Committee in last week's issue of Sociaist Worker.

Reg Weekly 1 August 1924 Page 6

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