The scan: sc-no280.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 3, 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: Milton Friedman on propaganda. Note: unnumbered.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" (unnumbered), Socialist Challenge no. 280, 9 February 1983, page 3. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE by Cormac. "What do you think of the government's plan to spend one million pounds of taxpayers' money to combat the rise of CND?"
2. "Listen .... 'In a free society the government has no business using the power of the law or the taxpayers' money to propagandize for some views and to —'"
3. "How wet! What bleeding heart liberal uttered that drivel?!" "Milton Friedman, Newsweek 16-6-69"
4. "Never heard of him! But thank God our great leader would never be influenced by one capable of such claptrap!!"
