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:''See also the International Marxist Group (Germany). The International Marxist Group (IMG) was a Trotskyist group in Britain between 1968 and 1982. It was the British Section of the Fourth International. It had around 1,000 members and supporters in the late 1970s.〔(Description for the papers of the International Marxist Group ), Warwick University Library.〕 In 1980, it had 682 members;〔International Information Bulletin 1980 No. 1〕 by 1982, when it changed its name to the Socialist League, membership had fallen to 534.〔International Information Bulletin 1983 #1〕 == Origins == The IMG emerged from the International Group, a sympathising organisation of the International Secretariat of the Fourth International (IS). Its founders, Pat Jordan and Ken Coates, had broken with the CPGB in Nottingham in 1956. They were members of the Revolutionary Socialist League in the late 1950s, Jordan becoming organising secretary. In 1961, they split to form the Internationalist Group in support of the IS against the leadership of the RSL, its British section. In 1963, the ISFI reunited with the majority of the International Committee of the Fourth International as the United Secretariat which advised the RSL and Internationalist Group to unite. 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".〔Peter Taaffe, ''(Militant's Real History )'', at socialistworld.net〕 Very soon the former Internationalist Group members left to form a new organisation, the International Group, together with some former members of the SLL who had opposed that organisation's refusal to take party in the 1963 reunification of the majorities of the Fourth International, including Charlie van Gelderen. The Group played a major role in raising Vietnam solidarity at the 1965 Labour party conference. The 1965 World Congress of the International demoted the RSL to a "sympathising" group: the International Group was granted the same status. In the words of the RSL's Peter Taaffe "We decided that the time had arrived when we must turn our backs on this organisation."〔 The RSL left the FI and ultimately became the Militant tendency. The International Group continued the production of a cyclostyled bulletin known as ''The Week''. As it was engaged in entrism inside the Labour Party, this journal gained various sponsors including Bertrand Russell, whose Russell Tribunal employed two members of the Canadian section of the FI, Ernie Tate and Pat Brain. In early 1968, the International Group renamed itself as the International Marxist Group. The IMG's activists published ''International'', which was launched in May 1968 with IMG secretary Pat Jordan as editor and incorporated ''The Week''. It was published with varying formats and frequencies throughout the organisation's life. ''Socialist Woman'' magazine was published from 1969 to 1980. The evolving orientations taken by the IMG were reflected in the sequence of newspapers it supported: ''The Black Dwarf''; ''Red Mole'', ''Red Weekly'', ''Socialist Challenge'' and ''Socialist Action''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Marxist Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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