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IMG leadership's 'sectarian' attitude to the Campaign for Democracy in the Labour Movement.

Despite the attacks and snide remarks about the WSL as 'programme fetishists' that were heard in the trade union debate at the conference, IMG members should consider carefully the fact that it was the WSL which prepared the fight for the sliding scale of wages at the TGWU conference-not the IMG.

Pablo And it was the IMG's would-be allies, the SWP, who voted against the policy at the NUJ conference!

Another central thrust of proposed IMG trade union work is 'solidarity work' around key struggles. The emphasis on support and solidarity is typical.

ror example, the IMG's main intervention around Grunwicks has been mass picketing and the building of support committees.

A speaker at the conference confessed that the IMG been on policies such as blacking, and that the amazing IMG 'nationalisation' policy adopted later on in the struggle was never clearly understood.

The IMG intervention at ali points completely lacked any clear understanding of the role of forces such as Jack Dromey who directed the strike committee away from policies which could win the struggle.

When the Scarman Tribunal report appeared it was welcomed by the IMG, who even continued to publish interviews with Dromey.

Avoidance

Crucial to all these weaknesses is the IMG's complete avoidance of the central question of the construction of revolutionary leadership, mhich requires detailed assessment of the moves of the bureaucracy and patient work to introduce a revolutionary perspective into workers struggles.

Throughout the reams of ....ni..1 ....1 TIM for voting made their intervention weak and marginal.

Some of the points they made were correct, but with no real perspective all the Trotskyist Opposition were left with at the end of the Sunday session was to praise the growth of the Strawson tendency as posing the important questions of the vanguard and programme before the IMG membership and indicating that increasing numbers of IMG members were beginning to think about these things.

Whether these people also begin to capitulate to the SWP or try to fight to turn the Strawson tendency towards a real fight in the USFI against all the Pabloite to the contrary there has been ample time to challenge the IMG's orientation to the SWP.

'Our Common Ground' was published in October and rumours to the effect that the USFI and the LCR regard Socialist Challenge as a centrist paper have been circulating in the pubs and meetings frequented by the gessip circles of the British left for some time.

If the USFI really do disagree with the IMG then the pre-conference period would have been an ideal time for a vigorous intervention-not one confined to the greetings section of the agenda. policy.

In rounding off this repor we should refer to the areas of trade union work where the IMG claims some success -NUT, CISA, NALGO. COHSE and CLASH.

What can be said is that the IMG is obviously beginning to sink some roots in one or two white collar unions.

With the mounting crisis of British capitalism, many organisations on the left have the potential for growth. The key question remains on what basis is this growth taking place?

Bleak

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