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"CASTLE: Socialism in apolo tach. Dead. tion. Payinest in s • pub, Shirland Rd, W9. Speaker: the tape or fat all Com sites Poland 50p polp SATIONAL demo to defend Nasire Begum from deportation, and all those threatened by ration i oil Moss Lane East, Park gether all radical members the union for Fi write to: 36 Box I, Fullmarks, 'HISTORY poses this question (for or against the re-absorption of anti-capitalist states back into capitalism) defensively', thunders Noel Hibbert (5 June). Martin Shaw is but a 'latter day William nuclear proliferation the worid over Some of us would take such comparisons with pride, but Noel as canny not bol comenaculary and his argument - because the Soviet Union is not imperialist, and so has the right to the hydrogen bomb - has to be concer 1. Unilateral disarmament campaigns fail because in each country (or bloc) 'going it alone in a hostile world seems impossible and utopian. Any new paign must be international and involve both main power blocs.
2. The economic structure of the two blocs is not the only fac aggression. The Cuban and Soviet workers' states are trying to smash Entren. the Soviet Union has invaded Afghanistan; China, Vietnam, and Kampuchea have 3. A defensive mentality does not mean defensive weaponry.
cautious men with a siege mentality but they have risked aggression — I LILA WOLLO Wal and again (Hungary Afghanistan).
4. If, say, there is a crisis in Yugoslavia and troops mass on the borders, hot lines fingers hover on buttons, then no one can guaranice tnal there won't be a pre-emptive Soviet Inn, strike.
5. As we live in Britain our complicity with shortages, run-down of facilities, and so on Undoubtedly many doctors, especially tosc at tae top, tify totally with the ruling class. But it is not Socialist Challenge's reactionary camp; it should be trying to win sections of them to We should support their cam- demands for higher salaries, fewer and in doing so try to overcome the division betwe the one hand and nurses clary workers on tac ounci, which the bureaucracy is fosterUrnerwisc we can cupcel no support from doctors for the pay claims of the nurses luck to the doctors! Now 30 cent for nurses and all other PHS workers!
OT A E CLARKE Hospitals Does and (which was always a gross iden- somewhat ludicrous. cen doctors on and anopposition and made any tremely remote. 4. and ancillary choice is cither a permanen the USSR or a Soviet troop withdrawal. respective bodies of armed men simplification) now becomes years.
Unless of course it is argued that the sovict troops. who repre sent the interests of a degenerated workers' state and its ruling bureaucracy, are defending the historic interests of the Afghan Such talk throws overoard any notion whatsoever of raid In reality the presence and activities of the Red Army has possibility of recouping some of the real gains of April 1978 exThe choice is not between dark reaction and social revolu tion (albeit carried through by the Red Army à la Bulgaria). The assimilation of Afghanistan into socialists support, regardless of the regime that will result. In the tion for the toilers of Afghanistan HAUT HOW DO YOU KEE federation) had mobilised 100,000 workers in the first legal demonstration in Paris for 14 In the months before May there had been literally scores of stoppages in the Renault Billancourt factory in Paris More disgraceful, however, is Terry's allegation that in May 1945 Tillon, the then Communist Air Minister, ordered a bombing 40,000 deaths. Here he is either completely ignorant of the facts or engaging in deliberate distorAlgerian affairs in that period depended solely on the decision sional Government, and were bethe Ministry of the In terior and had nothing to do with irorce of tae cycll scveral days after it happened. Th is a fabrication, as is the allegation that it 'denounced CohnOnly last vear the PC: un masked a government scandal MPUTER tion, and the government was compelled to accept the subse. quent resignation of the official.
As for condoning the harassment of immigrants, Humanité and Humanite Dimanche printed dozens of articles denouncing this in 1979 when I lived in France. I would advise comrade Terry to stick to the facts in future and not waste our time.
DOUGLAS CHALMERS, Dundee YCL WITH reference to the comment by Bernard Reagan in last week's Socialist Challenge (12 June) that the International Marxist Group is the backbone of the Socialist Teachers Alliance: speaking as members who are not in the IMG, who may be characterised as the . or just plain arse-holes of the STA, I would re-
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