IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 166, 3 October 1980 · p. 12 of the scan · 425 words

The scan: sc-n166-oct-03-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 12 of the scan

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column by characterised political prisoners, mass execution.

IT'S A LIE.

Want or the the campaign that figure came other 5,500, And prisoners' these Somozan Wing the civil war. 'political Ireland, of course.

Somozist rabble Goldsmith, the terroristic at the Now!

'Innovation' is a good way to describe journalistic standards - and of Goldsmith in parFor in the same issue as report of this beanfeast was a revealing the publisher himself. After trying to play down the torture of Claire Wilson and José Miguel Benado in Chile. he went on to claim that Nicaragua was "Twelve thousand 600 disappearances, Just two weeks later, in its issue of 26 September, Now! itself put the number of political prisoners at only 6,500 - and the US State Department! So what happened to the Goldsmith? who are these 'political anyway? Well, Now! has to admit that they are 'most of them former National Guardsmen or officials of the government' And what they do? Just murder 30,000 people durThat's all. So they're prisoners' unlike blanketmen in the H Blocks of Northern Many people might think that these are lucky to alive. But a little fact which Now! forgets to mention is that one of the first things government did was to abolish the death penalty.

What is more, it has maintained this returned from Poland)

Thur 2 Oct EALING/SOUTHALL.

Richard Rozanski and Oliver Mac Donald. uclass.

Fri 3 Oct Bonald. Phone Harriet on 3356Donald.

LIVERPOOL

fiths. Bluecoat School Lane, Liverpool 1 (behind Littlewoods), 7.30pm.

Weds 8 Oct HEMPSTEAD Oliver MacDonald. Phone Mick on 4lus / lor celalts.

Thur 9 Oct BIRMINGHAM MacDonald and Steve Committee Room 1, Digbeth Civic view in July that mass anger could take used force against the strikers.

Solidarnosc was quick to answer this attack, declaring: the slandering of sons working with the independent and self-managed unions as an action directed against these unions Jacek and a violation cords approved by the workers of Poland as a whole.

But the government's most recent sally has found a weak flank.

Last Friday the CP paper Trybuna"

This Tory cronies Now! smear and the put working people people of Nicaragua. 'undeniable generous character'.

And that's just why Goldsmith and slander revolution. For decades they have been able to rely on the image of Stalinism to socialism. Now examples like Nicaragua are making their task very much harder.

That the TUC should be part of this campaign is a scandal. They speak in our name, and will be heard as such by the

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