The decision of the Tory Government to call a general election in no way alters the central importance of the miners' strike for the struggle to bring down the Tory Government and defend working class living standards.
by the Tories that they are unable to defeat the working class on the industrial front, and should be a clear sign to the working class that it is here that the Tories' weak spot lies. On the contrary, the calling of the election is an open admission In every locality the labour movement should immediately set up anti-Tory Conferences to organise soildarity with the miners' strike, take up campaien in defence of-the Shrewsbury workers, coordinate the stepping up of local struggles, and begin a mass campuign against the This should include mass in the general election, Tariq Ali, well known activist on Vietnam and revolutionary journalist.
will be standing as candidate for Artercliffe, Sheffield.
Boh Purdie, an ex-shop steward at Singers, Clydebank who has played a central role in developing a solidarity movement with the Irish struggle, will be standing in Queensbank, Glasgow.
John Ross, the IMG candidate for Newham, East London, is a mem bet of the ATT, and a member of the IMG's National Committee As we go to press, no announcement has been made as to whether Dolours Price or one of the other frish political prisoners will stand as Republican candidate for West Belfuse, If one of the prisoners is put forward, the IMG will support that candidate.
tions in order to gain a piatform from which to put forward our pollcies for the working class struggle These policies are designed to step up the extra-parliamentary struggles so that organs of working class power can arise which will be able to brush parliament aside We call for a vote for Labour, where no revolutionary candidate is standing, because a victory for Labour would increase the comhi'ivity of the workers.
But a vote for revolutionary candidates will be the clearest call of all for escalating the struegle. against the scabbing of the parliamentarians. The epitome of such a scab is Reg ¡Prentice, whom Johm Ross will be fighting in Nowham.
We call on all revolutionaries, whatever tendency they support, lo The IMG is running three candidates support our candidates in these cleocions. Not because we are asking every revolutionary to codorse all the policies of the IMG but because we believe that a large turnout for a revolutionary candidate will make it clear that a rerolutionary alternativr exists in British politics, Similarly we will call for a vote for other candidates of the revolutionary left even where we hase difforonces with them on particular issues.
For this reason, we regard as regrettable the decision of Workers Revolutionary Party to stand Vanessa Redgrave against us in New ham, following the prior abnouncement of the IMG candidature. Their announced position that they will call for a vote for Labour Party candidates against IMG candidates will help no one except the reformists.
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