Socialist Challenge Pilot unnumbered issue, 19 May 1977
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Socialist Challenge
Photo: CHRIS DAVIES (Report)
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Meet the editors Revolutionary newspapers, produced, work on a shoestring budget. We make no apology for that. We have only one source of income -and that is our readers.
We have produced this sample issue of Socialist Challenge to give our readers an idea what the new paper will be like. And one of the things we hope to achieve with it — and again we make no apology - is to raise money for the paper.
If you want to support us the best thing you can do would be to take out a subscription;
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Big responsibilities face revolutionary socialists today.
within national politics but at the same time there is a sizeable minority which is prepared to fight - a minority of tens of thousands of militant workers. It is these workers and their allies in the student
Socialist Challenge is one of these footpaths, but the footprints we want on its are not simply those of the IMG. We launch it as a paper of struggle which will fight broad class struggle opposition in the trade unions; a paper to meet the needs of thousands of non-aligned who want to fight against racism, against sexism, ag ainst the Social Contract.
Narrow Circle
Secondly, we hope that
Socialist
FOR A UNIFIED REVOLUTIONARY ORGANISATION
Socialist Challenge
is coming on
NEW PAPER
in Britain
There is a shift to the right and women's
Socialist Challenge, with the help of its readers, will break out of the narrow circle of tar left politics and, fighting for left unity and, ultimately, a unified revolutionary organisation, will become the focus of a Sunday 5 June 7-10pm
9th June
BUILD THIS
List solution to the crisis. body of the working class.
battle against sectarianism.
The far left in Britain is divided, fragmented sectarianised. This trend has to be reversed if we are to face up to our responcoming
THEIR DEMOCRACY
AND OURS
Socialist Challenge
ernest Mande speakine on workers Comrade from ine LCH In DE Democracy and the Dictatorship of • Other international speakers Prim and neatre
St. Pancras Assembly Rooms, Kings Cross
movements who signal a social-
Most of these workers will support anti-capitalist policies but they aren't prepared to join any of the existing far left organisations. So we have to build footpaths which will lead us to bridges linked to the main
We hope that our readers will join us in the struggle to achieve these modest bu very vital aims which serve te interests or the workins class as a whole.
TARIQ ALI RALLY
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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE
Interview with Alain Krivine Socialist Challenge can learn
2 SOCIALISTCHALLENGE 19 May 1977 Britain as a campaigner against racism.
details about regular editors of the paper. TARIQALIcameto this country from Pakistanin 1963. Already he had been active in opposition to the military dictatorship in Diora Universay for too on in 1909 country. for organising a violent protest against the South African ambassador. In 1967 he joined the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and in April 1968 the IMG.
Since 1969 he has been a member of the leadership of the IMG and the Fourth International and has travelled extensively to, among other places, Vietnam, North Korea, China and Japan Challenge was announced.
Certain that
the fight for revolutionary unity. For Socialist Challenge one particular experience of Rouge was especially relevant, as the new weekly intends to open up its pages, as has Rouge, to organisations and individuals who do not necessarily share the positions of the paper.
Krivine outlined how Rouge had progressed in this regard:
*We declared publicly WES this **free tribune" available - especially
hoto: LAURENCE SPARHAM organisations
left. We had many problems with it at first. The other groups told us that they did not want to reinforce our paper. It was a kind of sectarianism.'
Krivine explained
factor in helping to break down such attitudes was the agreement with far left organisations
which saw striking advances for the
tar left in the French
MEET THE EDITORS
The editor of Socialist Challenge will be Tariq All, well known internationally as a representative of the Fourth International and in
The International Marxist Group has tried to put representatives from its different areas of work onto the editorial board to provide all-round knowledge and experience. Readers may be interested in some
hanned rom me boA.
Bolivia, North Revolution.
from Rouge
Alain Krivine, editor of the French Trotskyist daily paper Rouge was in London recently to speak at a rally where the launching of Socialist
we could lear a lot from the experiences of comrades in other countries, journalists from Red Weekly and Socialist Challenge asked Krivine how successful Rouge had been in
overall
LITECTC facility for other revolutionary
maJor
recent electoral
municipal
on behalf of the International. He is
France. Switzer land, Bolivia, Turkey, Hong Kong and
Tariq was editor of the Black Dwar from 1968-70 and the Red Mole, the first IMG paper, from 1970-72. More recently he is best known for the leading part he has played in the anti-racist struggles.
He is the author of a number of books, including Pakistan: Military Dictatorship or Peoples Power and The Coming British
member of the Political Committee of the IMG, will be one of a team of editors responsible for home coverage in Socialist Challenge
She was active in the Women's Liberanon Movement in Canada where sh joined the Fourth International in 1967. She studied women's history in Canada and labour history at Warwick University In Canada, shewas part of a collective which published a cartoon history of that country.
Dodie was one of the activists who first launched the Working Women's Charter Campaign in 1974 and was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Abortion Campaign until joining the Red Weekly staff recently. At present she is a member of the British planning committee for the international socialist-feminist conference in Paris in June.
She has been the national organiser of the IMG's work on women's oppression for three years and is editor of Socialist Woman.
GEOFFREY SHERIDAN is an extremely experienced journalist, having worked on a number of Fleet Street papers, and a long-time member of the IMG.
He has worked as a freelance, contributing regularly to The Guardian and union newspapers. He has become known as a leader of the left wing in the National Union of Journalists London Freelance
leading the fight against the right, led by the publicity-hungry Bernard Levin.
Geoff has been active in a number of political campaigns in the media. notablv he paved a maior part in th campaign to reinstate two journalists sacked by the BBC and in the Campaign Against Racism in the Media.
He has contributed regularly to Rea Weekly for many years.
*Our conception was to use the paper not just to present our line but to use it also as a tool of debate. The election campaign itself gave spur to this process. Now we have had this type of unity in action there is much more willingness to use the tribune" columns.'
There has also been an increase in the use of such columns by organisations associated with particular issues. As Krivine explained, "we give pages to the women's groups, ecologists, the soldiers groups and so on. Again at first there was some hesitation, they were suspicious of helping Rouge, but now we have such contributions almost every day'.
Krivine stressed that what Rouge was attempting was part of a general struggle for revolutionary unity and regroupment:
*There exists in France today, to the left of the Communist Party, hundreds of thousands of workers and students who perhaps in a very confused way are attracted by revolutionary socialist perspectives, do not see themselves as being in the extreme left organisations. Most do not understand the divisions of th far left, and in a sense they paralysed by them. It would irresponsible of us not to make any attempt to try and heal these divisions.
It was such thinking which led to the election agreement around the
miniona electione
GEOFFREY BELL, who is responsible for news and Irish coverage, was born in Belfast and has written for the Irish Times, the New Statesman, The Observer and Time Out, as well as Red Weekly and Inprecor. He is author of The Protestants of Ulster, published by Pluto Press He is a former member of the Northern COOKSON (Red Weekly) Ireland Labour
Irish Labour Party (expelled), Socialist Workers Movement (left Northern Ire-
(now SWP -the 5 October Civil Rights march in Derry in 1968, which started it all again.
Geoff is a long-time member of the he is on nie executine commitre ly he is on the executive Camden Trades Council. In 1973 he led a 14 week strike against a magazine an book company union" recognition. taken to the infamous National Industrial Relations Court, at which point the union panicked and called off its support for the action.
RICHARD CARVER is the editor res ponsible for the international coverage of Socialist Challenge.
Office Workers and the Transport and General Workers Union, he was expelled from his college in 1974 for his leading role in a student occupation
study of the Basque nationalist ment. He has had a number of articles on the subject published, including one in a recent issue of internanional, and nopes Le have a book published in the not too stant ruture, ume pernmenng Most
movemen Portuguese Spain in Struggle. He has written for the
Spanish language press of the Fourth International and extensively for Weekly on Krivine pointed to other successes -for example the joint revolutionary left contingent in the French May Day demonstration was the first of its kind. There are also moves to have even closer cooperation with "free Lutte Ouvriere. As Krivine explains:
with LO before, down. Now they have started again and we are progress. the
next step will be four common pages
The bearance step ore poe
The experience comrades
which Socialist Challenge
but action had been taken.
are be
struggle.
KEVINE and Challenge are at one on this:
and divisions'
Party (expelled),
expelled). He took part in
over victimisation and The strikers were
Photo: G.M. COOKSON (Red Weeklw
A former member of the Union of Post
Since then he has worked on a detailed
move-
Richard has been active in the Spanish
and an editor of
Red different inter •We have had talks about fusion
but they broke
making SOLIC real There have of course been many difficulties, but it is probable that the
- in their weekly and in our daily These will be written together and will have a joint editor. Again this
French cannot be directly translated to this country. That Rouge was a daily paper gave it an attractiveness
will not have. It is also notable that there was a greater willingness to participate in Rouge after major steps to unity in
But in Britain particular developments such as the rise of the National Front make similar attempts to forge unity in action not just a 'good idea but a concrete need of the anti-fascist
the new Socialist
It would be irresponsible if we did not make an attempt to heal the
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THE FIRST issue of Socialist C Labour defeat at the County C important electoral inroads. In Party has emerged as a credi remains fragmented in the face the Labour bureaucracy
Despite a political setback sections of workers have launc standards. The Port Talbot elec their fight represents a clear number of social issues such unity in action is being forged threatens to divide the working
Organised socialist opposi
Socialist Challenge will mak socials ooos onto on in the forefront of the camp revolutionary left. Both these ta advance in the face of the seriou
One startine point for this tendencies within the trade un resist the attacks which have be Socialist Teachers Alliance is group militants - including m the Government's disastrous
Such initial moves need exte be structured on a national s extend across union boundarie - such as campaigns and mov of socialist opposition would leaders of the labour bureaucra
Far left divided
The unity of the revolutiona organised left wing. Today th splits occur daily on disagree fundamental questions of proc of a programmatic nature th organisations. Confusion and to suppression of internal organisations of the British lef
The political campaign to la to begin this discussion abou This debate will continue in thorough-going debate and conceptions in practice, any Unless the far left fragmentati political positions, it will dissi
Socialist Challenge will fig and ine vanguard workers organisation we will be tryin revolutionary party in this cour
or organisation will achieve s
Socialist Challenge - based f
International but committed to provide an opportunity to achi
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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE THE CHALLENGE OF THE FOURTH INTERNATIONAL
Producing a revolutionary paper There must be an
Editor: Tariq Ali, 328/9 Upper Street, London N1.
Telephone 01-837 6954
sks
new
enge appears in the wake of a massive cil polls. The National Front has made tland, the bourgeois Scottish National alternative to Labour. And the far left he most vicious assaults unleashed by
ered by the working class, bitter struggles in defence of their living ans have not been hesitant in stating that enge to the Social Contract. And on a acism and women's oppression - broad resist the reactionary offensive which
central goal the fight for an organised icts of the capitalist crisis. And it will be for a principled regroupment of the are vital if the working class struggle is to eats it confronts. the fight to construct class struggle : to unite advanced workers prepared to art and parcel of the capitalist crisis. The ep in that direction. It has been able to ers of far left organisations - to tackle ries in the face of complacency by the g. A class struggle opposition needs to Firmly rooted in the unions, it would / uniting with other working class forces nts fighting on social issues o create a clear alternative to the present
ft is an essential component of such an tish far left is divided. Expulsions and s over tactical questions rather than on me. But even where there are differences es not automatically warrant separate rrect positions on this question have led ocracy, the political the political education of theircadre i Socialist Challenge has already helped it a principled regroupment would entail. ages of Socialist Challenge. Without a opportunity to test different political sty regroupment is doomed to failure. overcome on the basis of clear principled as rapidly as it has been achieved. r a new relationship between the far left ampaigning for a unified revolutionary establish a correct basis for building a This is a task which we think no one group y through their own growth. A paper like on the politics of the IMG and the Fourth licy of open and polemical debate — will hese political tasks.
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The Economist and Newsweek have unleashed calumnies against it. The American House of Representatives has had a thick dossier printed on its activities and labelled it the Trotskyite Terrorist International". Its name is linked to actions in Latin America and Quebec, to striking workers in Pamplona and to school students' mobilisations in France.
In many cases the reports are rubbish pure and simple, but they reflect something deeper: an awareness within ruling class circles of the potential threat offered by a revolutionary organisation spanning 60 countries and all the continents.
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While its leaders make no false claims
real strength, the Fourth International is the largest revolutionary Marxist organisation in the world. Socialist Challenge will be an internationalis
That is not a matter of abstract *ain, but an answer to une miemanona nature of the world capitalist system.
Our enemies will use chauvinism and peity patriotism as a way of dividing the working class, Fernaps une singie greates political weakness of the workers' move. ment is its readiness to respond to th capitalist politicians' calls of 'national interest enthusiastically backed up b
Of course imperialism is rent with national divisions, but that is something we can only turn to our advantage if we are united internationally. When it comes
though, our enemies united in their determination to protect their own interests by stamping out the gains of the working class internationally
multinational companies are a graphic illustration
enterprises around the moving where the pron margins are highest and using national divisions as a weapon for holding down wages and sacking indiscriminately.
The Fourth International represents the continuous development of the international communist movement from the Bolshevik Party of Lenin and Trotsky. It
easier way
There must be an easier way of producing a revolutionary paper.
That's the thought which flashes between pairs of lean and hungry eyes late every Monday night — or early Tuesday morning. But that Is
When
But even Socialist Challenge's most
champions would be hard put drastically to change the
producing weekly
starts on Wednesday (where else?) when the editor presents the provisional list of contents to
La campaign
DIDNAR
arose out of the split in the Communist International after Lenin's death with the rise to power of the Stalinist bureaucracy in the Soviet Union.
The Fourth International was founded in 1938 on a programme which repolsented the highest development of shevik politics. It stands for all those things which Stalinism has rejected - for the revolutionary road to socialism, based neither upon the single party bureaucratic state nor the 'parliamentary road' but upon socialist democracy,
In contrast to the idea that the construction of socialism can be completed in a single country, the Fourth International defends the theory of Permanent Revolution. This means both a recognition of the interrelationship of revolution
and an understanding that
capitalism can no longer solve the prob. lems of democracy and economic dev elopment in the colonial and neo-colonial count e. socialist revolution under the leadership of the working class can do tat
We combine defence of the workers' states the Soviet Union, Europe and China against the capitalist countries with a fight for full socialist democracy in those countries, which can only be won by revolution, overthrowing parasitic bureaucracies.
Although the Fourth Socialist Challenge arrives it will be
the editorial board.
board will be open to representatives
of political organisations participa
ting in the paper, and
journals, as well as individuals anc
representatives of the International
Marxist Group and the paper's staff.
After a sometimes prolonged dis-
cussion the basic shape of the week's
of rejects the Stalinists' bureaucratic idea of
Line role or une party in a workers state we stand by the need for an international revolnonary party wen can providc tae common programme for socialist revolution. Within that international organisa-
national is the nucleus, we fight to build sections in each country which can fight to take the leadership of the struggle for socialism in their own country. tasks can only be carried out with the fullest inner-party democracy, both within the national sections and international-
For many years a small number people, isolated trom ine mass or tne workers movement, guarded this political neritage trom ine twin unreats of stann ism and the attacks of fascism and repression. But in recent years things have changed. Particularly since 1968 the rise or working class struggies meetnanonany and the role which the FI has played within them. has been reflected in the numerical growth of the organisation and an expansion of its political influence.
the expansion of our press. Each section has its own newspaper. In every major capitalist country there is a weekly paper of the FI. In France a year ago a daily paper was launched. It has successfully
and presents the possibility of unifying
gauche
inter-
Revolución
Eastern
a niga a political
presci
International
the week goes on. rather
Other in advance.
The editorial paper and not a news magazine
sort of lefty Time or Newsweek
of other
to events as they happen
fortunately just
sation
tion, of which the present Fourth Inter- ne real
ago wnen campaign Those This growth has found its expression in
polical analysis
led the section to further political gains
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GENEVOIS EN GREVE paper is decided, a shape which wi e maintained throughout the fre quent revisions made by the staff as each
Red Weekly tends to be produced week by week. In other words there is too little of an overall plan of the aper's contents in the long term With Socialist Challenge we will b trying to plan over a longer period by number commissioning feature articles fur-
Nevertheless the paper is to be a
day
the bulk of the paper will still have to by written week by week in response
Frequent meetings of the editorial staff revise the plan in the light of important developments and - un-
as orten way!
SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 19 May 1977.3 the revolutionary left in a single organi-
In Colombia a joint paper has been the way in which three Trotskyist organisations have brought about full unity under the banner of the Fourth International.
meaning internationalism was shown three years
-successit eite anora was mounted to launch a weeklv Trotskyist paper in Portugal. Nov a similar campaign is underway in Spain.
Already the massive growth of the Liga Comunista Revolucionaria and its implantation in the working class has made it possible to move from a duplicated journal to a well-produced, printed newspaper with a circulation of some 30,000 -and that is leaving aside the sales of news papers in the languages of the oppressed nationalities in Spain.
Socialist Challenge will be able to make use of all these advances. Already the daily paper in France provides us with invaluable news material. More recently we have managed to extend our network of foreign correspondents who will write directly for the new paper, providing an unrivalled source of news coverage and
But above all the strength of Socialist Challange will be the political strength of the Fourth International and its programme. We stand or fall by that - and we are confident which it will be.
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Linke appearing or disappearing copy. By the weekend, however, the contents
page are fairly finally decided. The copy deadline for letters has already passed, so that is usually the first page to be typset and passec on to the design staff
If we are on schedule - an event so rare we savour every moment - a
of pages will be laid before the weekend is over. More likely, everything will be finished in a frantic rush on Monday, our press
Monday also sees the emergence of the most important political story of the week. Our certainty on this point is the product of many years of front page lead articles rendered superflu ous by the onward march of the class struggle! There must be an easier
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Port Talbot strike committee.
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"This Socialist Challenge sounds all very fine', you are probably saying, 'but won't it just be a revamped Red ference?".
The first answer to that question is before your very eyes. This sample issue should show you that the new paper will look different. Red Weekly design has improved dramatically in recent months but it is still a mish-mash of various styles of design, reflecting different stages of the paper's evolution.
In design as in journalism, we have decided to wipe the slate clean and start with a new and unified idea of what the paper should look like.
That in't the most important thing. The big problem facing Socialist Challenge is to build on those aspects of
are worth keeping its union coverage and its in ternational coverage, for example — while introduc ing a series of important Changes
For example, we aim to use the paper to help build an opposition to the betravals of the labour leaders That means a fight for the policies of class struggle rather than class collaboration.
Socialist Challenge will fight for the policies which it thinks are needed to build such an opposition.
So far no difference.
But we will do more than
we wil providea forum for workers in struggle, for campaigns agains racism and for women's SHOUO OS DUP SURLE words we will open pages to any individual or group which is fighting for that class struggie opposi tion, whether or not they agree with the overall politics of the paper.
More letters
This also means that Rea Week/v's letters column, which has long tried to be a space for frank debate on the left, will be expanded.
We want to make the letters pages the place in the paper that everyone turns to
This sort of editorial pol-
home pages, either. International solidarity
CaH paigns and emigré political organisations Cal also b given space in the paper, particularly those who have no press of their own.
The main strength of Red Weekly's international coverage - the result of being part of an international organisation — will be extended. There will be more space for up to the minute reports from foreign correspondents and thorough analysis of events in the international class struggle.
Well be paying particular attention to those areas — suen as mastern euroDe -where we feel that we ar aDie to orrer a service to une whole of the revolutionary
The other main task which Socialist Challenge has se itself is the fight for a
WHAT'S THE
DIFFERENCE?
Weekly? Where's the dif- everyone is agreed on that -
unified revolutionary organisation in britain. Rea Weekly has long argued against the divisions within the British left, explaining that our agreement on poll tical principles and gramme mean that there is no real obstacle to revolutionary unity.
But more than that is needed. The real differences that do exist must be discussed publicly, not to score scolarial points, but establish the nature of our differences. We are quite clear that only clear discussion of what divides us can lay the basis for unity
To do this Socialist Challenge will open its columns
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such debates. Red weekly s Batte or Ideas supplement will continue as a regular bi-monthiy feature. More than that, we are prepared to open our editorial board to any revo. utionary organisation which is genuinely commit-
So you can see that Socialst Callenge will be pro duced in a rather different WaY - - and will look ratner different - from Red Weekly.
There will be other changES LOO
We want to set up a network of local correspondents for the paper, people who will be responsible for providing coverage of ev-
Red Mole
ents all over the country
This will be the backbone of Socialist Challenge's news coverage.
Through the HOUTEE International Red Weekly has begun to stabilise a network of foreign correspondents. But, with some exceptions, we have not managed the same thing in our own country. As the launching of the paper approaches we have been making efforts to put this situation to rights. Already
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we have correspondents from all the major towns and cities
But a paper can't have too man) correspondents. you think you can put pen to paper — or even if you're not sure you can - keep us informed of events going on in your ares.
We need other sorts of contributions too. If you take photographs, or draw or nave any other skills which would improve the paper, your help would be welcome.
Of course the big difference which you can't fail to onces mar ane new paper will have 16 pages. This will allow us to fill in a lot of the gaps in the old Red Weekly.
Culture
Culture - television, film, theatre and book reviews - have all been neglected in the past. A new series of new regular columns will aim to set that right. And the history of the labour and socialist movement - a rich source of experience for our movement today, which has tended to be ignored - will provide further regular features of Socialist Challenge.
Above all, Socialist Challenge will be an open forum. Not at the expense of Ils pollics Dr course. We make no bones about what te polucal une of ine paper will be; it will reflect une ponties or une rourtn International and its British secton.
In that respect it will follow canton. or Red Weekly. Red Weekly has seen that the opportu nities to build a unified revolutionary organisation and a class struggle opposition in the labour move ment are greater than ever before. But Red Weekly also understands that within its own confines it can't carry out all the steps needed to take advantage of those opportunities.
Socialist Challenge will be able to, progress made Red weekly
And that is the only difference.
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