IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

THE LONG, LONG WALK TO FREE THE TWO

Red Weekly No. 87, 6 February 1975 · p. 7 of the scan · 263 words

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warned of the dangers of leaving the campaign to free the Shrewsbury 2 bureaucracy Jack Jones have no intention of orpanising strike action to force the release of Warren and Tomlinson But without such action these workers will remain in all.

A new initiative to set the 2 out of jail has been started by the Wigan Builders Action Committee It is an initiative that can unite into a national campaign those militants who recognise the need for a genera strike to force open the prison gates Mr. Jenkins. They will not The march leaves Wigan last Saturday on the first leg of the journey to London Tribase, If this is the case, it shows that the WRP has no understanding of what the lorces are that can be mobilised to smash the reformists and the stalinists who want to throtte the Sbrewsbury campaign.

Alternatively, the WRP might that it must involve all those forces Inside the working class movement that are for independent action.

What is more it can ro-group the militants who will be at the Liverpool Conference, helping to make sure that this is not simply a talking shop. A real support, even token strike action, can show the way lor those worker at Liverpool who want to take action and not simply rely on the burenucracy Agion we stress- all support to the Wican march. At the same time the WRP must not be allowed to turn this into some publicity stunt. The outcome of the march will not be determined by the plans of the WRP

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