I WROTE 'The Gang of Frauds' after watching the report of the Slimehouse declaration on the telly.
I look forward to the day when more people like David Owen are driven out into the open by truly socialist policies, and when the Labour Party will one day be run by the people for the people and by handful of Westminster.
I'm not yet a member of the International Marxist Group but I buy Socialist Challenge every week off one of the lads at the factory where I work. I find it an excellent working-class unlike the popular daily apologists -and I have started trying to sell it.
The paper is an excellent way of drawing people's attention not only to tne Tories in the Con Party and their anti-worker attitudes and actions, but to the Tories in the Labour Party, who are the real intiltrators PS. Enclosed is f2 for the Fighting Fund.
The Gang of Frauds Come look Ye at the Gang of Four, The people's hope, the people's choice, Press your shell-like ear to their door, Fleet Street's dope, the bosses' voice -Listen to the noble noise of Shirley and the Limehouse boys.
There's Woy the Boy, the workers' Shovelling down caviar and sipping brandy, Discussing with his banker mates The dweadful level of interest wates -Pontificating over if and when Woy the Boy will wule again. When we sit down to our small feast We should remember this at least, Champagne hath charms to soothe the savage beast.
There's Doc David, the black man's mate, Tucking into his well stacked plate, Thinking of the time when he took fair elections to Zimbabwe, OUT in a fortnight - the first issue of a new-look INTERNATIONAL, a journal of Marxist analysis produced by supporters of the Fourth International in Britain.
A new political situation has opened up for revolutionary marxists. Thatcher and Reagan have created a new cold war alliance. The holocaust has re-emerged, generating a mass mamenu movement. Allne same time the economic ICCCOSIUIL has levels of unemployment careerists spokesman be a lie -glee, undreamt of for almost fifty years.
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Hark at Billy the pacifists' kid, Dining his way through fifty quid, Explaining to his colonel friend The wav to avoid a nuclear end -'The answer's simple,' he says with strategic solutions to the problems confronts.
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The moral to this poem's plain -They've conned us once JOHN CUTTS, Stockport work. white rule.
Socialist Challenge GOING on the Interna Day march this year felt so in. troverted. as though the women's movement turning inwards rather than outwards. It's abou time we really celebrated ine day witn a mass. na tional march.
Reading Cathy Porter's history hallene day (Socialist Challenge March) made me realise how far we've moved from original content, of working class women's strikes Shouldn't we be going outwards to draw in more women trade TO US , local occupations sections the Labour Party, and community groups, as well as the local women's groups?
Perhaps if we'd really built the event in a big war we wouldn't have had to abide by the imposed bar — although the irony of a state ban on the NF march ending up Our celebration being banned may have brought home to a lot of us the danger of calling any form state censorship, whether against marches or pornorgraphy.
Let's hope the NaLola Festival for - and against Tory attacks - or 9 May will be a start o broadening the : women's movement and that we car get started soon to buil Day 1982 as a day that all women can join in, nationally.
JUDY WATSON, London E5 Jeremy McMullen Employment law under the Tories Pluto Press, £1.95 This book is designed to provide trade unionists with an explanation of new laws introduced by the Tories. It covers women's rights, the closed shop picketing, and union recognition and is essential reading for all those fighting for their rights at Alex Callinicos Southern Africa After Zimbabwe Pluto Press, £2.95 Based on research and interviews conducted during the elections which brought Mugabe to power, the book traces the background to the new phase in the struggle to liberate southern Africa from The Other Bookshop 328 Upper St, London N1 26 March 1981
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