IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Bad Taste: the tax haven

· Socialist Challenge No. 266, 22 October 1982 · p. 8 of the scan · 118 words

The scan: sc-no266.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 8, 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 tax haven. Note: unnumbered.

page 8 of the scan

Four-panel cartoon strip: a man used to dream of being a rock star and living in a tax haven; he never became a rock star, but the Tory government did provide the tax haven — it's called dire poverty.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 266, 22 October 1982, page 8. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "I used to have a dream of being a big rock star and living in a tax haven."

2. "I never did get to be a rock star."

3. "But the Tory government did provide the tax haven."

4. "It's called dire poverty."

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