Board THURSDAY 9 JUNE is the date set for the launching of a new left paper Socialist weekly. The aim of the new paper will be two-fold. Firstly to campaign for a new left wing in the labour movement that bases itself on the policies of class struggle rather than the class collaboration beloved by the present "left leaders". Seconaly, lo overcome the sectarian fragmentation of the far left in the fight to build a unified revolutionary organisation in Britain.
The campaign for the new paper has been initiated by the International Marxist Group, which for a year and a half has campaigned consistently these two vital objectives. It is for this reason that Red Weekly will cease publication with its 200th issue and throw all its technical and journalistic resources behind the new journal.
Because Wall Socialist Challenge to reflect the central tasks and debates confronting the working class, we will give space in its columns to individual militants, organisations and campaigns to express their views in a way normally denied them.
POLEMICAL We are confident that the many militants who may not necesarily agree with each and every one of the policies of Socialist Challenge will nevertheless see the need for open, non-sectarian polemical paper. A sixteen page paper will allow two pages of letters and room for regular columns to guest writers.
Socialist Challenge will committed to continuing RY 14, 1977)
Paper of the Socialist Workers Party, US supporters of the Fourth International.
Comradely May Day greetPaper of the Socialist Workers Party, Australian sympathising organisation of the Fourth International.
NOT Paper of the Liga Comunista We take the oportunity of this last three years. Revolutionary greetings. Poner of the Grunoi Comunisti Rivoluzionari, Italian of the Fourth International. page fight to overcome the fragmentation of the far left today. It will seek to promote unitec front policies which strengthen the impact of revolutionaries movement. "Forum' in the new paper will seek out for debate with other left organisations in an unrelenting fight for a principled re-groupment of the revolutionary left.
The fight won't be confined to the printed 'Forum' columns. Several organisations on the left have already been approached to consider what concrete measures they are prepared to take in launching CONSEN lenge.
The extra four pages of the new paper will have regular coverage on cultural and social events and issues. It will also make posible extensive reporting and analysis on developments in the international class struggle, including particularly Spain and southern Africa. In Eastern Europe, the crisis of Stalinism has reached heights with the recent emergence of organised oppositions an however initial East Germany Czechoslovakia. column on the struggle for democratic rights in the deformed workers' states will bring be vital lessons to bear on the British workers movement ings to Red Weekly -to Socialist Challenge in its fight for the unification of the Trotskyist organisations. 11 Mar LAL We send revolutionary May Day greetings to Weekly and its readers: and best wishes for the success of Socialist Challenge.
COMICA Vista Internacionalista intemeciona StA. guese sympathising organisation of the Fourth Internaday of international working class solidarity to thank Red Weekly readers for their financial assistance to our paper over the Communist greetings to Red Section Weekly and its supporters on May Day 1911.
The campaign to launch it will be formally set in motion at the Trotskyism Today Rally can at Hammersmith Town Hall on 29 workers" May will be devoted to strenucolumns ous efforts in seeking active support for and involvement in the new paper.
MEETINGS
Militants in every major town word in the and city throughout the country will be appear on the platform of local They WIll Chal- Committee of the International Marxist Group as well as a member of the LCR in Spain.
Militants attending the meetings will be asked to publicly support the aims of Socialist Challenge, to financially back their support, to write for the paper, to mobilise for actions endorsed by it, and to sell the paper. sample of Socialist Challenge new will appear in mid-May. RALLY and national regular revolutionary press the weekbefore addressed by leading members of the United Secretariat of the Fourth International. rally, the new editor of Socialand we nave municipal elections in the same struggle.
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TON BRIGHTrally ON COLI CANTER9 June will be BURY At the rouge duced and given the opportunity to explain why Socialist Challenge meets the needs of the class struggle today.
Today the conditions exist for Trotskyist forces to break out of the isolation they have suffered in past periods. SocChallenge will be an attempt to ensure that every opportunity is seized to spread the ideas of Trotskyism and to organise around policies of The choice is yours. The new paper will put the challenge to you. If you support its aims -or even if you are willing to explain why you disagree mark the following dates on your calendar and take the opportunity to be convinced of is week: interview Alain Krivine, editor of the French Trotskyist daily Rouge.
Friday 6 May Sunday 8 May Sunday 15 May Monday 16 May NEWCASTLE Tuesday 17 May weonesday to may • WORCESTER Friday 20 May Friday 20 May Sunday 22 May him.
Moncay Smal Tuesday 24 May Wednesday 25 May Thursday 26 May rnaay er ma Sunday 29 May Tuesday 31 May Wednesday 1 June Thursday 2 June [Note: If you live in the North West keep the following dates free: 9-12 May. Further detalls in next week's Red Weekly). * Pakistan One way or another the Bhutto recime in Pakistan looks finished As we go to press a general strike continues to paralyse the country. Martial law has beer Ma O cities of Lahore, Karachi and Hyderabad and a curfew im- - drawn theirsupport posed in other large Workers in nave Deen toleto reDor lo work under the tareat of summan court martial, carrying penal ment to the death sentence The army has banned all trade union activily --Lanore another layer of the opposition leadership has been arrested Over 200 are reckoned to have died in political violence since rigged elections early ir March. ne snootino or cemon strators and supposed curfewbreakers by the army last week new pattern.
Teoresos onutto s stone aris notonse ine armee inuos ornis rakistar People's Party but the armed forces themselves But that creates problems for morene dovolves power to ine cenerais, une les: need they wii see or nis con inuing as Prime Minister. No of urgee sie and organise dete Doureeorsie ana organoce our ne ooks ariess siable wal before the elections. moment there is no obvious military candidate to take ove the Government. But there are Dientv or Durchers Italian demonstrators may be shot. That was the message of Minister Francesco cossica aner une ucaord policeman auring a demonstrd tion last week.
no evidence to identify who fired the fatal shot but the Government has used ine mccentas une occdsion to surtner repression. carrying guns or Molotov cock armed FRANCESO COSSIGA insurgents against the state and dealt with accoroingiy All the major parties have greeted approval, though the nist Party (PCI) was disappoindemonstrations until the end of . No doubt they intended to demning the killing as they did in bologna lastmont 'The workers united are mobilised against criminal subverannounced l'Unita, Criminal subversIon heroentany is. anyIning cosy relationship with the rightMAYDAY GREETINGS 5/293 Branch T&GWU, Cowley Assembly Plant END THE SOCIAL CONTRACT NOW! wing Government.
Theelectorate gave its view of ine -escass condoo alonIs policies in the municipal elections last week. The party's vote dropped by 10 pe PCI its highest VOTA CUEr elections ast June nave wit the massive socia promised, PCI has acted as the Govern ments policeman in inncin attacks on working class living governing Chris Democrats some cains, une mam benenciaries o ine lost Por vote were smarle WOrkers organisations like the Socialist Part The ultra-left in the student movement is certainly isolating usentrom te mass or suael. by its adventurist and undemo cratic methods Isolated policemen offer no way forward for struggle acamst menew eaucationarlay or against the advances of the farright But the ban on demonstrafiorence ha tareado ce Violence ts an allaoN TIONES -OT Ine WOrKETS кало student movement as a whoe approving noises but to fight * Greece An Amnesty International report, on the tenth anniversary o mustary Greece reveais mal many or une dic latorsnio's torturers nave beer allowed to get away scot-free.
, Greece to Portu gal, where there has been such criminals to justice. the repor highlights the reluctance of the new bourgeois democratic re deal decisively those responsible for the death and mutilation of tens of thou sanes or workers. Many or uni torturers remain in the employ.
Coup George Papadopoulos and his accomplices were condemnea lo acau ou ouick y nao ineir sentences commuted to life imprison.
ment. When Guardian LOUTEO wwaldo dallos prison where they are nero ne cor a suronse rach coll nas Dined musI and an adjoining bathroom . Or the anniversary of the e coup the chicken PHISORCES unci. ne chicken was norto the anniversar exolaineo in prison governor. "That is what the prisoners get every Thurs None of Papadopoulos's vic tims was ever treated like that *Catalonia Building workers in Cataloni: have been on strike since 29 March.
substantial the Government's cost of living index. They argue that the index mores ganistos selves A fortnight ago 8,000 workers packed into ine san апоте.
football stadium to decide th future of the strike. Members of strike senting the PSUC, the Catalar Communist car arcuca Tore return to WOrK Inev WOrE opposed by speaker from of [Maoist and LCR [Fourth International], leaders of the 'unitary current ir the workers commissions After the speeches a vote was . Two hands were raised in support of PSUC motion!
The rest voted to carry on with • Ine sinKe BATTERSEA & WANDSWORTH TRADES COUNCIL
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