IMGpapers

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

Leeds

Red Weekly No. 51, 9 May 1974 · pp. 6-7 of the scan · 385 words

The scan: rw-no51-may-9-1974.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 6 of the scan

At the NUS Conference a few weeks ago, the delegates felt so strongly about the growing influence of racists and fascists that they decided to stop the public activities of such But, according to that oh, so orthodox" revolutionary group, the Workers Revolutionary Party, the Conference was getting het up abour nothing. At a mecting of Leeds for a campaign of explanation in the Polytechnic students union last week they put forward a motion which contained the following pearls of wisdom.

The Leeds Poly technic Union (LPL) notes the decision of NUS conference to take steps to halt the growen of fascist and racise erganisations. However, the moves of sections of the middle class and backward sections of TEN WOKEN CIG CORDEUS SH40 reactionary organisations can be direcily relared to the developing world cconomic and political crises, The LPL therefore recognises that mobil Isations against fascist pubb:

activities. far from eliminating them, mercy we tue myster ical irrationslity of their campaigns.

'The LP realises that, just as m termany and haly us the 1920s and 1930s, the real dangers be losin can con emerge after the defeat and destruction of monking cho organisutions and therefore pledges its support to the Red Books is now at 97 Caledonian to be abandoned.

Trotsky Tought against the Stalinists to them in future: Birmingham Anti-fascists in the West Midlands have prevented the setting up of a new National Froot braich in Wallsend. Members of IMG, IS and the LPYS got into a meeting in tie Old Grand public house on 23 April and heckled so effectively that it had As the fascists left with their tails between their legs the publican told them that he would not let the room Earlier the police had cried to limit a picket on the meeting to sex people

page 7 of the scan

The fist round of voting in the French presidential election East Sunday has left the eventual outcome open. The run-off between Francois Mitterrand and Valery Giscard d'Estaing on 19 May will programme as insufficiently anti capitalist in other words, the vote of the extreme left was certainly more than 700,000 and may well not bove fallen far short of a million. This in an election in which the pressure to vote for the Socialist problem of the army during her

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