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10 unusual facts about International Marxist Group


International Marxist Group

In 1980, Tony Benn's campaign led the IMG to increase its focus on the Labour Party.

A unity conference in September 1964, brokered partly by Pierre Frank and Jimmy Deane, voted for unity but the fusion was not accepted: RSL member Peter Taaffe recalls that he "led a walk-out of the Liverpool delegation, with the majority in Liverpool in support".

before=Revolutionary Socialist League|

Different tendencies developed in the organisation over how to relate to the political evolution of figures like Ken Livingstone and Arthur Scargill.

The International Group continued the production of a cyclostyled bulletin known as The Week.

The agitational work of The Week was carried on in the The Black Dwarf and in Socialist Woman, launched in 1969.

They were members of the Revolutionary Socialist League in the late 1950s, Jordan becoming organising secretary.

Marxist Group

International Marxist Group (Ger.: Gruppe Internationale Marxisten), a Trotskyist group in West Germany

International Marxist Group, a Trotskyist political party in Britain between 1964 and 1987

The Week

At that time The Week became a monthly magazine called International, which was published by the International Marxist Group.


Red Lion Square disorders

This counter-demonstration attracted support from groups not directly under the control of Liberation, including the International Marxist Group (IMG), the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) and the International Socialists (later the Socialist Workers Party).