the IMG has nothing to unswer for. We repeat: the comrade who did not appear in person before the Scarman tribunal his workplace, and the leaderimp of the IMG agreed in advance to his course of action We would have thought that overy section of the revolutionary left would agree with the need to take every precau tion possible to avoid the victimisation of revolutionary militants, But the WRP chooses to seize on this commonplace incident and tronsfort it into a sinister of ING militants in harness with that of the ruling claas.
secks to cover up for Scarman's "finger the witch-Bunt on oumeives This change is not only slandcrous, it is also absurd unless, Uhat is, the WRP actually believes that the course of ruäng class justice is detennined by the 'arguments' which revolutionaries bring to bear in their defence. Every singlu militant in this at least-understood that the aim of the Scarman Tribunal was to whitowash the once at Red Lion Square on the left, and thus jay the basis for moves to further restrict the democratic rights of the workers movement.
itist poliries of the bomhing campaign - while being a set back for the struggle Unfortunately, what has occurred since the cesefire shoen that the Provisionals In relation to the WRI's latest stunt.
was a militant in the process of unionising plot, in order to launch its witch-bunting The RP then goes even farther and ing of the ING by saying that we brought of solidarity whatsoever. country outside of the tanks of the WRP, tee.
Recently; Seames Loughran, the leader The IMG aimed, by its intervention in the Tribunal, to expose the class charac ter of the ruling class case and, more importantly, to link up the proceeding inside the Tribunal with the light outside by growing sections of the worken movement against the threat fram the far night. The success of this combined with the growing impact of the anti-fascist movement in the working class made it imposable for the ruling cass tu cany through this scheme. Not one single signi ficant change in the law come about as a result of Scarmor But to think that the IMG Ist groups, exemplified in its absence could prevent Scarman from making any are written in the paper, which are then lot and a lailure really to challenge the socia As to the W'RI's claim to have made 'a principled defense of the IMG Dom the a sick joke This delence" was carried out in accordance with a well-established methodoloey halis dio shown in the WRI's principled defence of the trish struggle: a few formally correct phrases Jowed with tens of thousands of words of sectarian distribe, and a complete failure to undertake any proctical measure COVER UP There is a simple explanation as to why the WRP is engaging in such frenetic thrashing about at this time: it neods to Dow ap a smokescreen to conceal fram its membership the patent bankruptey of Jes own ompanisation, and of its pathetic political atlack on us is to have a touching united actions-such as Red Lion Square organisntion, the Interational CommitThe WRP leadership now has to Lry and pover up a record which consists of years of wrong positions on virtually every major political and theoretical question wlich nas contronted the british workers' movement. Self proclaimed "Trobiky ist"
doned the internarionalism of the Trotsky it Fourth International for the most parochial of politics based on a narrow national oudlook on the world-coald survive and even flourish in a period of Telative calen in the class strueple, for as long as the reservos of British imperialism created the objective basis for the lack of interuationalist consciousness in the British working class. But now the upsupe of the class strappie on the international plane and the chronic crisis of British Imperialism is throwing such organisations into total political disamy The WRP is actaaliy sinking even deeper into the mue of its own political bankruptcy, as is shown by its recent its inture to make any sort of mobilisaBon on the question of British troops in its failore to mobilise actions against working class against black and immi -Its failute to take up the oppression of women in capitalist society, even when Issues like opposition to abortion and "crosion of the aniy Linalen to become important rallying cries for reactionary forces (its total failure to maice any response to the reachonas anti-abortion Bill of Labour Ml James wite is just tne larest campic), -its complete fallure to deal in any was with the threat of far right, racist and fasc from the anti-fascist movement and its Hone Pork Corner and the recent demor Stration at Isington Town Hall These political failings of the WRP are not accidental, but blow directly from it political outlook. Objectively they bead the WRP into a failure to really confront the backwardgess of the workm cas capitulation to the social democratic ideas which penneate the workers movement.
democratic, hurcaucritic leadership of (be workers movement on any level except that of abstract and harren rhetori INTERNATIONAL As far as the farce which goes under the name of the Interational Committee 18 consered, its accord bas been partly exposed by the leaders of the WRP themwolves in their denuncations of the oppor tunism of their erstwhile collengucs of the French OCI and the Bolivian POR. More national Committee, sach as Alan Thorett in Bertajo and The Wahlforth (ornsor leader of the Amerkan group) in the United Stales have painted an even more lurid picture. The Enternational Commit tee now sands publicly exposed as a pathetic parody of an attompt to build an international revolutionary party.
Our final word is simple 1 over more than 12 years the Fourth International bas repeatedly challeaged the WRP to dehate publicly the roal guestion of the world clam strugale and the toal tocord of our two international organisations, Repeatedly the WRP has run ause from such a debate only once agreeing to a discussion, and then only provided it was confined to mambon of our organisation alone.
We say to the WRP and its members: leave your sewer of slanders and distortions - conte into the light of open political debate and let the workers vanguard decide the merits of our positions Wo challenge you to a public dehate on "The Polities of the United Secretariat and the Polities of the International Committee.
If you have any contidence in your ileas you will seize such an opportunity to expound them and expose us. If yo refuse die challenge dies thie whole lef will understand that your current campaign of filthy slanders is nothing more than a cover up for your political bank