IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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Socialist Challenge No. 172, 13 November 1980 · p. 6 of the scan · 435 words

The scan: sc-n172-nov-13-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 6 of the scan

I lazz an laca is oresente o be discussed and debate ike ın a mecce The remarks about Billie Holiday's record are deliberately misleading Leonard Feather's tions to the record are based on the company issuing the recora or a very sick woman crippled by drug addiction pany Issuca charlie Parker's "Loverman which he broke down during his solo and was replaced by Historical recordings o ghoulish voyeurism? J BELL, London SOCIALIST Challenge was SLICSS aggressive nature Soviet Union and was Las all moves by Western countrie towards CND (and the Socialist carmamenc Workers Party) base their unilateralism solely on the of disarma ment, mass ments in the East do not im mediately take on an anti nuclea character strategy will fall flat!

As it is, only the fact that there are. numbers of countrie allows no car tor tota alsar mament now in individual countries is an organisation which is determined to raise unilateral slogans, but can only justify them as a tactic getting them raised ternationally, that is multiThus lalcially not come to grips with reac tionary need for a 'nuclear balance' The heart nes D an to the could be basis Gestucuon scare like Cuban missile crisis, bomb scare , could the anti-bomb move. ment t in two The sophistication of the European Nuclear Disarma ment campaign lies avoidance of the iwo coun maintain • the USA mythical 'balance' and the Soviet Union Socialist should argue at the CND conference campaigr whic is not mined deterrence ar cument. Cruise missiles, which actually destroy 'balance' now nave a march of ove 200,000 against Cruise now on v the Marxist justify unilateralism low late.

word s productive resources in a search markets • the IMG needs t allay fears about wha 'defence of the red bomb means The red bomb is for the defenc Soviet Con ov celerane alack. We do not want to see a nuclear Soviet Union in an otherwise nuclear-free would over unor o awav o one step ahead of the West in disarmament terms so a destroy capitalists Justifications for their own nuclear weaDon. will sovie nion not be rehabilitiated into the Ing class the Wester, no ky ing class giving weapolls auccu suen a rear or com munsme el workins class that nuclear-free US val ucularly WiCH perlansm is being inrealer ed by socialist liberation movements over the globe The red bomb's role in ne cerence o me sovie

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