IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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· Socialist Challenge No. 213, 14 September 1981 · p. 14 of the scan · 208 words

The scan: sc-no213.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

tion 'Quis Custodiet means who shall guard the guards themselves' As Ine Mel answers ourselves and judge ourselves.

FACTS ABOUT THE METROPOLITAN POLICE socialist Challenge 17 September 1981 Page 14 ipsos custodes which, we coppers will guard LO people, Ken Livingstone should not have said that 'rate rises benefit our class.' Innumerable members of the working class have to pay rates.

I am old enough to remember George Lansbury and the Poplar Guardians who refused to raise the rates or to starve the people in their care. They went to jail.

Not many people of their calibre sem to be alive today, but unless we have them we cannot win.

Being no heroine myself, I cannot sit in judgement on people who are not prepared to face jail for their causes. But Ken Livingstone should have been honest, and stated that he had no alternative other than either raise the Or to defy government by refusing to implement the cuts.

Then it would have been up to especially the working class, to rally to his defence in defying the government.

I agree with you that we should RODE COUNCIL orner HIGH COURT PRISON EQUAN RATES organised defend him against attack.

Kathleen Jones, Shrewsbury Noreen Branson anti-socialist

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