Challenge AS WE go to press, Britain was closing in on the Malvinas/Falklands. A full scale invasion simply awaits the engineering of the break. down in negotiations at the United Nations.
everything to negotiated settlement. It is a scandal that the Argentinians should be asked to make any are Argentina's.
Yet, Tory policy throughout has systematically pitched for a crushing Argentine defeat.
The islands are now being systematically bombarded from British ships a mere 10 miles off the coast. Commando units are already on blowing up communications equipment, attacking gun emplacements and destroying sentry posts. This constitutes an Britain has no right to these islands and must be forced to withdraw forthwith The local election results are a damning dictment of Michael Foot's leadership of the Labour Party. should be backed to win votes has proven to be complete hog-wash. Blood is just as much on Foot's hands as Thatcher's. It is this British and Argentinian WO NUTS transfused new life into this decrepit governm There are good grounds for thinking that a decisive lead will find a deep response. sewer press has chosen to highlight the 70 per cent of people that would support an invasion of the Malvinas/Falklands. out the much more significant figure of only just over a half (55 per cent) such action if there is loss of British life. if pigs had wings, they could fly!
In the event of such deaths will be • Labour could win a decisive maiori ty if it put the fight against Thatcher at the cantre of its attentions Foot has presented his support for Thatcher's war as a means of helping Argentinian workers overthrow Galtieri's junta. This is utinThe argument that the war This policy. These This The They fail to point war on the home front would support defeating her war And which there Falklands Tories war workers against something plundered Partv and removed debts to banks - to stop British bosses sponging off the backs of Argentinian workers is a socialist and internationalis should be drawn together into a plan and put to a joint meeting between the TUC, the Labour Party and the Argentinian trade union federation, the CGT would signal stepping up the war against Thatcher on all fronts - against Teb bit, unemployment and especially against her policy of colonial plunder. For it is in order to maintain Britain's predator role in the world that the working class is facing such a vicious The two things 8.5 Thatcher will be overthrown All socialists should put resolutions to Labour parties and trade unions for • An immediate unilateral ceasefire • Immediate withdrawal from the Malvinas/ • Immediate withdrawal of the fleet • Labour to break from any support for the Such resolutions to be linked with calls to action to all working paople to mobilise Thatcher's war through rallies, pickets and demonstrations But it also has to be said that Michael Foot has now squandered any claims to speak on behalf of British working people. He must be challenged for the leadership of the Labour All out 23 May - make it the big one!
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WITHDRAW THE FLEET Demonstrate Assemble Tower Hill 2.30 March down Fleet St Called by Falklands ad hoc committee