IMGpapers 1980–83

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1980–83

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Socialist Challenge No. 133, 7 February 1980 · p. 2 of the scan · 280 words

The scan: sc-n133-feb-07-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
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page 2 of the scan

¡heration. This socialism can only be achieved by creating new organs of power and defeating with all necessary means the power of the capitalist state. infinitely more democrate , Our socialism I than what exists in Britain with full rights lor prilitical parties and currents that des not lake up arms against the socialist state. The Stalinist models of socialism in the ISSR and Fastern Europe hare discredited incialim in the eses of millions of workers throughout He are opposed io ihem and will offer hall support 1o adl those fighting far socialist democrae?.

The interests of workers and on a world scale. Capitalism 'HI, Joe.

we'd like your help... all An Bingham Horrid. Daily, Horld I'm ringing about those sanctions those **** have got on Rhodesia. We're taking in 20,000 gallons of crude and imaginary phone conversation, tbousands of calls like that must have been behind the sanctions busting by major British oil companies which was detailed in Report fon which government has decided to take no action).

companies plan drastically affect the livelihoods of workers, So does the government and the civil service. The police organise picket breaking, raids on **** plots against unfriendly to the West.

but the in strikes, and Tory organisations.

which immigrants, and robberies. The secret service governments and groups None of these activities is of any interest to the state's eavesdroppers, whose main concern is to spy on left-wing MPs (including those in Labour governments), trade unionists involved left-wing campaigns As Duncan Campbell has revealed in the Statesman, technological developments enable thousands of phone conversations to be secretly recorded and relevant extracts to be selected by & computer and printed out.

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