get by the end of January.
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These will workers' movement, chauvinism and sexism. As you will have seen in Red Weekly, the International Marxist Group is launching a £15,000 Fund Drive. This money will be used to extend the national facilities of the IMG, found a Scottish centre, and expand Red Weekly to 16 pages. The aim is to hit the £15,000 tarEvents in Portugal and Spain have shown that socialism is once again on the agenda in Western BurBut in Britain we have seen in the last few months the imposition of the £6 pay limit; spiralling unemployment; massive cuts in the social services; attacks on the rights of women to abortion; and the use of the Irish war to undermine the democratic liberties of the working class through the Prevention of Terrorism Act.
The capitulation of the 'left' reformist leaders in the face of these attacks once more underlines the crisis of leadership in the workers' movement. The choice will be posed in the following months as to whether the British working class participates in the European revolution. This very much depends on whether a new leadership can be forged during the fight to defend living standards and the right to work — a fight in which the British ruling elass will use every method and means of splitting up and dividing the including playing on British the efforts of revolutionaries; and this in turn will reflect the ability of the IMG to build a strong revoluTo do thiș needs sober patient political activity, for the only real material factor we have at our disposal But to implement these 'ideas', to fight the weight of reformism inside the labour movement, other material factors are increasingly necessary; offices duplicators, full-time workers, printed pamphlets. All of this costs money, and we make no apology for asking you for a large donation even though the anarchy of the capitalist economy pushes living standards downIn Lisbon and Oporto militants of the Fourth International solved at least one of these material problems relatively easily. Given the strength of the mass mobilisations, they were able to take over empty office space from the speculators and turn it into revolutionUnfortunately the working class movement is not strong enought to solve our needs in exactly this However, by making a sizeable donation to the Fund Drive, we think that you will be making a real contribution to preparing for the time when such a course of action is open to the revolutionary movement.
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red weekly 13 november 1975