Challenge By Dick Withecombe, GMWU and Oldham West CLP FOR a year now. Socialist Challenge has consistently built and publicised the movement and CND.
The paper has given a clear lead and direction for the type of mass moveDespite the injuries sustained in the reBernadette is the by-election for South She say she is standing to 'take over the world. ment that we need to build movement that organises mass action and which is primarily based on the labour movement and youth reflect the ¡ournalistic but the participation hundreds of Socialist Challenge readers within and leading ment.
I've seen this in my own experience in Manchester.
When Manchester Against the Missiles organised a 2,000 stong Blackpool on the eve of the Labour Party con ference, was Socialist Challenge alone that motivated the march and local supporters in Mancheste that helped organise it.
On the march and during conference, the tireless effort of Socialist Challenge accumulated wide sponsorship for a call for a labour movement conference Motivated Challenge supporters the proposal won the overwhelming support of CND's national conference Building up the Labour Movement Conference Against the Missiles, Challenge has been the only paper to carry consistent coverage All® this has made me realise the role of the paper even more.
For me the choice is clear: do we want to build a Illass movement, ao we want to build mass ac, do we want to base ourselves primarily on the and labour movement?
so, then all acuivist should read, sell, and help finance the paper inat nas argued for this approach from the start; the paper that has been unrivalled in its internationalism, its coverage and analysis of the war drive and the expanding revolution in Central America and the Carib bean.