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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.

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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".

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before=Revolutionary Socialist League|

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

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

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

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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

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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).