IMGpapers 1980–83

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

SADAT ASSASSINATED

Socialist Challenge No. 216, 8 October 1981 · p. 1 of the scan · 178 words

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As we go to press, we have heard the news of the assassination of President Anwar Sadat of Egypt. Sadat was a brutal dictator, a vicious enemy of the working class. His slavish support for the interests of US imperialism in the Middle East made him hated by all those fighting for the right of the Palestinians. Socialists will not mourn his passing See next week's issue for a full analysis. because of its failure is no longer acceptable.

meeting ference, votes he definitively Labour Party to campaign for a united None of this would have happened without the hunger strike which has shown to the world that this presence As Joan Maynard MP told a fringe the con. 'Bobby Sands' death, and the , got transformed the situa tion inside the Parliamentary Labour Party. As far as Irish unity went, it was mass conversion all round.' Therefore, consider all that, and consider as well the substantial concessions to the prisoners announced this week by the Tories, and then ask 'who won?' The answer is obvious.

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