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Socialist Challenge No. 259, 4 September 1982 · p. 10 of the scan · 190 words

The scan: sc-no259.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 10 of the scan

MAJOR ARTICLES by Roz Kaplan and Phil The emphasis of both Ros Kaplan and Phil Hearse's Phil Hearse re-iterates at length that the Palestinians have carried out a heroic resistance against the invasion, but then makes the outrageous statement PLO should have continued the struggle by as against what Ros Kaplan describes as the PLO's 'capitulation to Israe of the PLO and the people West Beirut needed? Hearse argued that the lesson of all defeats is that it is bet ter to go down with a fight' fight. Yet the PLO did heroically for 11 weeks. Unless military vic was possible for the LUL PLO, what further advantage could have been gained by fighting to the bitter end that has not already been squeezed out of this bloody defeat?

The statement of the RCG of the Lebanon is very brave, although if it attempt WAlL soon section of the Fourth International. Phil Hearse's pontifications behind a ILOH aCSK do with bravery, thia his do with bravery, time would be better spent attacking the counterrevolution and the USA than attacking the PLO ISI tion'.

Bisi Williams and Rich Palser

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