IMGpapers 1980–83

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

THE NGHT

Socialist Challenge No. 186, 26 February 1981 · p. 13 of the scan · 250 words

The scan: sc-n186-feb-26-1981.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.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 5-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 13 of the scan

called by NUS. They marched along Fleet St to condemn violence against women, but the police prevented them going And this time will not be the last! Our body's gift is ours to give Not payment for the right to live. Since we've outgrown the status-quo, We claim the right to answer NO! If without consent he stake a claim, Call it rape! For rape's the name!

Words and music, Peggy Seeger the the face, The waiter ocal be Evein-u pin-up in the Yorkshire Post, 19 November 1980.

Kidnapped - with a cud The Daily Star's headline an article on 22 November 1979 about a 'dashing medical student' who abducted his exCould you rape this woman? The unacceptable face of feminism. Caption under a photograph of NUS secretary Fiona McTaggart, in Oxford student Cherwell.

Bubble and shriek

headline on a report of Pete scalped his missus' in the Daily Star on 27 October 1979. Pete had punched his wife in cut off her hair, and hit her with a frying pan.

Three open buttons on her blouse spelt death for a holiday-maker the Daily on 26 june 1979 article described how became excited by a waitress's exposed chest tempted to rape her, and then death when she fought back.

A woman, a dog, and a walnut tree; the more you beat them, the better ther Frank Muir wise-crack on Radio 4, 8 February 1981.

Most of these examples are from a report by Birmingham Rape Crisis Centre.

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