The Political Committee of the International Marxist Group, British Section of the Fourth International, decided at its meeting on October 21st to launch a national fund drive in order to prepare the way for a weekly newspaper. The Political Committee adopted a target of £10,000 to be raised within the next three months.
The capitalist press has started a witch-hunt against the Fourth International. Leaders of the organisation have been banned from many countries in the capitalist world.
But this campaign of lies shows that the bourgeoisie has begun to grasp an important truth: the tremendous potential power of the revolutionary forces when they are organised internationally. While the imperialist powers are increasingly split by rivalry, while the Social-Democrats and Stalinists are incapable of developing a unified international strategy. the revolutionary Marxist movement has been growing from strength to strength. The Fourth International has been in the forefront of the world movement in solidarity with the Indo-Chinese revolution since the very start of American intervention. Today, it alone has been able to develop a movement of international solidarity with the Irish struggle for self-determ ination. With the rise of working class struggle in Europe and the pressing need for an international response to the manoeuvres of capital, the existence of a rapidly growing revolutionary organisation with forces in every country of capitalist Europe represents a great lever at the disposal of the workers' vanguard.
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ADDRESS. British section of the world movement. One of the youngest sections, it was created in the 1960s in the face of the degeneration of the traditional Trotskyist movement in this country. In spite of its rapid growth, the resources of the IMG are still woefully weak in the face of the enormous tasks and opportunities that confront the revolutionary workers' movement in Britain.
The sharpening class struggle makes it vital for the IMG to produce a weekly newspaper as a political weapon for militants in struggle. It also necessitates the transformation of our theoretical journal into a regular 56 page We urge all militants, sympathisers and supporters of the Fourth International in Britain to contribute to the fund, thus helping to strengthen the intervention of the IMG at a crucial period in the class struggle.
Fill in this form and send to:- FUND DR/VE, 182 Pentonville Road, London N.1. (Cheques should be made out to The Red 1 am enclosing ......p.......for the Fund Drive I know the following who may also wish to contribute: -The Red Mole 30 October 1972 Page 5
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