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Why I'm marching

Socialist Challenge No. 260, 11 September 1982 · pp. 4-5 of the scan · 436 words

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Paul Wongsam is an unemployed black youth from Cheatham in He told Jim Coutts, the march organiser;

he'll be out I'LL BE marching because the only thing you can do is protest. take away the boredom for a while. They are going to replace Polaris with Trident and install Cruise missiles. They say they are a deterrent, but really they threaten us with a nuclear war.

They are all a waste of money. They are just going to scrap Polaris when Trident comes. All that money just down unemployed for six months and get £16.50 from the dole. I give £10 of that to my mum. So I'm left with six and half quid.

I don't think the unions have done enough to protest against and stop unemployment. really haven't been doing anything.

I'm glad the riots happened. everybody the amount of frustration and pressure that was building up. They were the biggest protest so far against unemployment. But they were not just about that. They were against people being trod on by the police. But happen again. power.

I wouldn't join the Labour Party as it is now. The people who run it don't do anything for people like me. They do things for the middle class They ignore young people, black people and people on the dole like me. If Tony Benn got in, things might be different. He is more radical and wants to do away with nuclear weapons.

The papers try to tell you things the way they want you to see them.

Falklands. But most of my friends were against the If it had been up to me, I would have given wal. the islands to Argentina. They say the PLO in the Lebanon are terrorists, but they are really treedom fighters. They say the missiles are a deterrent, bute Reagan is our main enemy. I hope the march will get these things out.

Socialist Challenge 11 September 1982 page 4 Manchester.

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