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

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Socialist Challenge No. 210, 27 August 1981 · p. 11 of the scan · 437 words

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Holiday Reading Colin Smith reviews Strumpet higher even than in Calcutta. Plunkett, However this Arrow Books, Ine novernronicas working class struggle. wrote Transport were ones growing trade strikes in Western Eurone. years Led to resign unions.

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the Moscow Plunkett retells masters in those days) en 'The First Years of American Communism', James P Cannon talks crucial role of the Communist Party - then not yet comwarped by weev It was the Communist Party, and no other, tha made the Herndor Scottsboro cases national and world-wide issues, and put the Dixiecrat legallynch mobs on the defenThe social worker we spoke to told us, 'Comclass is not a catalogue of oppression and distress the elation, times Irish a sporkind ded tral General Workers Union and the following A of strikes and justice ninione ting in one of the first generalised telling The employers' response was to lock-out all workers who refusThe and lock-outs paralysed Dublin for six months between August and Christmas 1913.

the story of sive for the first time since collapse of Reconstruction. 'By such and similar actions and donaton the thirties, the party shook un all the more less liberal and progressive circles onine walte mada and began to bring about a radical change of attitude on the Negro question. At the same time the party became a real factor among the Negroes, and the Negroes Socialist Challenge simple answers. The onl certain thing is that hadicapped people out all round.

these events through the eyes of characters: working families, Catholic priests, and employers the far from eternal triangle of Irish society..

Ne eavesdrop on the cynica nachinations of boardrooms, fe strength and some panic of mass demonstrations and discover that the only priest with a glimmer of humanity is a drunk.

short cannot do to this panorama of a novel. It is a fine piece of storythose friends who feel the need to begin other 'basically') and it is a relief to get from the tortured egos of most fictional heroes.

Plunkett's hero is the working people of Dublin 1913. Take it with you on holiday and get the sand between its pages.

themselves advanced status and self-confidence partly as a result of the Communist Party's aggressive agitation on the issue'.

There is a lesson here for today when the hlack minorities this are confronted the same Ku-KluxWitt Klan mentality which tried to railroad the Scottsboro men and youth to the elec tric chair. The legal-lynch mobs are still among us. 27 August 1981

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