IMGpapers

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988: Black Dwarf, The Red Mole, Red Weekly, Socialist Challenge and Socialist Action, with the League for Socialist Action’s paper of the same name. To read or search, each page linked to the scan it was read from.

The text was read by machine from scans held by the Marxists Internet Archive and is uncorrected. Black Dwarf and The Red Mole are cut into articles by machine; the weeklies are given issue by issue, the whole issue on one page, and their text is being added as it is read. Check the scan before quoting, and tell us about mistakes.

The IMG’s magazines, bulletins and booklets — The Bulletin, The Week, International, Socialist Woman and more — are at img.redmole.org.

Black Dwarf 1968–70

The revolutionary paper edited by Tariq Ali from 1968, revived under the name of a radical paper of 1817. IMG members and others wrote for it; the split on its editorial board in 1970 produced The Red Mole. 583 articles in 33 issues.

The Red Mole 1970–73

The paper of the IMG from March 1970, fortnightly and then weekly, until it became Red Weekly in May 1973. With its broadsheets and special issues. 949 articles in 76 issues.

Red Weekly 1973–77

The IMG’s weekly paper from May 1973 to 1977, with its supplements and the Battle of Ideas supplements of 1976–77. 210 issues, the whole issue on one page; text for 210 so far.

Socialist Challenge 1977–83

The weekly that replaced Red Weekly in June 1977 (pilot issue May 1977), to March 1983. 282 issues, the whole issue on one page; text for 282 so far.

Socialist Action (IMG / Socialist League) 1983–88

The tabloid of the IMG, which became the Socialist League in 1983: no. 1, 18 March 1983, to the last issue of the newspaper in July 1988. Not the US paper of the same name. 179 issues, the whole issue on one page; text for 179 so far.

Socialist Action (League for Socialist Action) 1976–81

A different group, and a different paper from the IMG’s Socialist Action of 1983–88. The League for Socialist Action were supporters of the US Socialist Workers Party’s tendency in the Fourth International who split from the IMG in 1976 and rejoined it in 1982. 19 issues, the whole issue on one page; text for 19 so far.