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· Socialist Challenge No. 263, 2 October 1982 · p. 11 of the scan · 626 words

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mand that the Palestinian fighters martyrdom A more disgraceful exZHEN OINTRISCTIRCRIE infantile leftism harder imagine. But what cisc statements like The PLO YOU Chest prepare ground for continuing struggle by staying Beirut and fighting to the bitter end" or, 'the lessons of all defeats is that it is immeasurably better to go down with a fight.

These two statements were in Phil Hears's article along with the view that the "real victory would be to stay to fight to the end'. Victory through death is a slogan of the reactionary Catholic 'FIGHT LIKE a man and die with our boots on' adds up to a good line in a John Ford movie but ticles in Socialist Challenge by Phil Hearse and Ros Kaplan (19 August) clearly add up to a de sacrifice their mass organisations in return for a heroic Church and not of revolutionary Marxism, Phil should be reminded.

The centre-spread almost does the impossible by being worse than the back-page article. Here, in Ros Kaplan's piece the PLO withdrawal is denounced in advance *capitulation to Israel and , a sentiment echoed in the pathetic statement of the RCG where the heroic elevenweek struggle is given the verdict shameful capitulation' Sharon failed in his at- The remain, tempt to impose a final solution on the PLO.

Despite the military blows lifetime If helping the workers is classed as left wing then right wing must stand for the opposite thing.

said:

head".

The creation of goods from the crust of the earth, others a dearth.

this world, but under the capitalist system they make it absurd.

stealth.

And furthermore, in this micro-chip age for that, poor, the score.

So there surely is an alternative way. and that is when socialism is here to stay.

So vote left wing and get rid of the blues cooperation builds.

IsracI's main aim has been denied them. Even their repeatca provocations breaking the various ceasefires didn't work and Reagan was forced to ster in to halt the rapid deterioration the political standing of the US-Israel alliance In situation Socialist Challenge should have been turning the heat, not on the PLO, but on the Labour leadership SHIEWHOSe silence has been nothing short of criminal. Demands should have especially been plac ed on the Lefts such as Tony Benn whose links are well known Phil and Ros targetted the wrong peo pie, and in doing so served the interests of the wrong class.

Ailean O'Callaghan 1/647 TGWU and Harrow Central CLP Socialism in our Which leads one to think that one thing must be Workers need right wingers like a hole in the should not lead to opulence for some and for But to fair shares for all and security for life without all this rat-race and struggle and strife.

The creation of jobs could be the easiest thing in For they will only invest their pilfered wealth where they can get more slave labour by their If capitalism was the only way to create much then it would be argued we should follow such But workers should know it need not be that for capitalists need us, but we do not need they.

if it's left in their hands some still will slave. And instead of us having a four day for all ir'll be riches for them, and the rest to the wall.

Now if we could all be conservative or capitalists then into that ring we could all throw our hat. But capitalism thrives only by keeping some but we could all become socialists and share out for capitalist competition kills, but socialist Socialist Challenge 2 October 1982

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a disastrous one for the class struggle. Yet the thrust of the centre-spread and back-page ar-

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