IMGpapers 1980–83

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

DEMONSTRATION

Socialist Challenge No. 246, 21 May 1982 · pp. 1-2 of the scan · 302 words

The scan: sc-no246.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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WITHDRAW THE FLEET TORIES GO FOR BATH NAPOLEON once said 'you can do everything with bayonets except sit on them'. true of the Atlantic. If they withdrawn - now be a terrible bloodbath.

Britain is fixing a breakdown in negotiations; an invasion only awaits this breakdown.

The world can now see Thatcher is out for blood. The junta was quite prepared to sacrifice Argentinian this cynical betrayal Argentinian people enough for her. She wants complete and utter prostration.

She can't diplomacy, The same is could not ships in the South are - there will things will have to be only escalate. of the was get this because Galtieri cling to power if he complied. So she will have to impose it by force. This means that cannot end with an inva- still sion; 10,000 troops, stuck out in the middle of the South Atlantic, cannot be sustained without further aggression. Argentina itself 'subdued'.

Thatcher goes ahead with her invasion, the war can therefore So much for the hypocritical claim that Thatcher's war was going to help world peace. This desperate government is not only driving itself to yet more ac of desperation - it is draggir the rest of the world pell-mell Where will it end? Thatch refuses to answer Tor Benn's request to confirm deny that the task force carrie weapons. Columni James Anderson says that it n only carries such weapons, , DI the commanders have the rig! to fire them.

There is only one way to sto this government in its track. Bombs and pockets of t the ships, troops, gun. South Atlantic - now.

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YOU WANT TO STOP ing the Neanderthal wing of the Why does it not fall? Not because

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Assemble Hyde Park 1.00 Called by Falklands ad hoc committee

← FORGET JUNTA SAVE THE SHUNTERMass action can stop the war →

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