IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Bad Taste: the witch-hunt

· Socialist Challenge No. 251, 24 June 1982 · p. 7 of the scan · 142 words

The scan: sc-no251.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the foot of page 7, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). One of Cormac's Bad Taste strips: the witch-hunt. Note: unnumbered; published during the Falklands war, over the Labour Committee for Withdrawal from the South Atlantic.

page 7 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a Labour right-winger thinks the party is at its loveliest during a witch-hunt — wallowing in the hysteria of the Tory rags, being patronised by Sue Lawley on "Nationwide" — but most of all he loves the uniform: a Ku Klux Klan robe and burning cross.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 251, 24 June 1982, page 7. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. CORMAC'S BAD TASTE.

2. "I've always thought that the British Labour Party is at its loveliest during a witchhunt ..."

3. ".... I wallow in the hysteria of Tory rags ...."

4. ".... I adore being patronised by Sioux Lolly on 'Nationwide' ...."

5. (In a hooded robe, with a burning cross:) "... But most of all I love the uniform!"

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