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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–1988

FACTS ON THE LCR

Red Weekly No. 187, 17 February 1977 · p. 8 of the scan · 295 words

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page 8 of the scan

Open conference with Contact: ALAHM lo Stud uth Bank Polytechnic, 7 Rotary eche provide ELEBRATE International Women Social, Fri 11 Minty (AAM), and a mem HE RE-AWAKENING reoruary Issue Chinese militant on the cra or toumar in Sino-Soviet relations public meeting: "Imperialism and Speaker: Jack Price. Sunday 20 PetSpeaker:

unemployed/ students All proceeds to FOUR DAYS of Marxist discussion he Sov DisManual workers Office workers zechnicians Administrators reachers Charte School Students Unemployed Women produced by Contains Women * Unionisation • Sunday 20 FebPolish Workers * The occupations of members.

Members 13% 12% 21% 6% 5% 3% 20% % 22% 16% 2% 4.6% 2% 0.3% 5% 4% 30% 29% 70% 71% * Proportion of local leaderships according to sex 24% 16% 76% 84% * The average age of LCR members is 25.8 years, and the average length of membership 3.9 years.

64% of all members are in unions as compared to 53% at the last congress. 1st Congress Sympathisers 14% mutants.

11% Z0 /0 ship at all levels.

16% 2% the Ligue 63% intervention'.

Those aspects of the malfunc tioning of the LCR were described by all the currents in the debate as a crisis of the organisation. The main themes of this debate were the democratic processes of the or manation the role or in day role of the Rouge (the LCR's paper) and its the proletarianisation of the LCR and the functioning of its leaderBut the predominant question was the situation of women inside Tendency A thought that this issue was 'very intimately linked to the orientation of the organisation in the women's move

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Tottenham Cout Road (Warren Si POLISH WORKERS Defence

APRES GMOIS DE PREPARATION.... LE CONGRÈS EST PASSÉ

ON EN A POUR 6 Mois À SON REMETIRE

← The French section of the Fourth Inter- national, meeting in congress three weeks ago, drew a balance sheet of the problems encountered in two years of growth. RENE CHARRON and STEVE POTTER report.IMG Notes →

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