IMGpapers 1980–83

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BRISTOL BRANCH BOOSTS PAPER SALES

Socialist Challenge No. 143, 17 April 1980 · p. 13 of the scan · 285 words

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page 13 of the scan

TAKING the message solidarity and the need for organised self-defence into the black communily what the Bristol IMG branch has been doing in the wake of the St Paul's uprising.

In the days following 2 April, IMG members responded Socialist Challenge's coverage by taking three nunared exlla copie of last week's issue.

First, they took the paper door1o-coor In one communavery second or third household bought a Then they took the paper to tne Asian snops, wnere sales nave of been going well.

addition, the branch has been selling at the public meetings which followed the 2 April events. that's LaSu Thursday Cells example, people meeting at the Inkwell community cellie. and 30 ol them bought a • copy of Socialist Challenge.

to The initaitive of the comrades shows how events in the class strutte can be sered on le boost sales of the paper; to bring home the message of resistance to coolest aulacks everywnere.

With the 14 May Day of Action approaching, and with anger at the 1 ory orensive ouobling over, tere NATIONAL is no lack or opportumes to doos sales. What is your branch doing? Let Socialist Challenge know.

Bristol THE Queen will be visiting Switzerland on May Day. So will three leading steelworkers from South Yorkshire and Warrington.

The first event has been set up by the Swiss bourgeoisie. The counter-visit has been organised by the Revolutionary Marxist League, the Swiss section of the Fourth International.

Fritz Von Scheist, a member of the RML central committee, says: 'We thought that the ruling class case should not go unanswered and who better to be there than the steelworkers'

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British steelworkers to spend May Day in Switzerland

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