completely disappeared.
If your article is supposed to be educational then how about educating people in socialist responsibility, and awareness of the problems of socialism, rather than feeding them irresponsible, dogmatic formulas. Even Nationwide tries to pose some of the problems of your part to pose it as a Marxist given', when in fact there is no: mention of it by Marx even though he was fully aware of the concept.
ALAN LEIGH, Hull 'Scab' steel?
IN YOUR coverage of the steel strike, in the issue of 3 Jan, I was most disappointed to find no mention of the international aspect. A major part of the attacks in the bourgeois press has been designed to set Britain steelworkers against their brothers and sisters abroad by stressing the 'threat' of greater imports and the "Tact that the problem is due to foreign steelworkers working harder than British ones.
Even the trade union bureaucracies recognise the importance of this, as Sidney Weighell, TUC delegate to the Britain: 12 months £12.50; 6 months £ 6.50 Abroad: 12 months - Surface Mail - Airmail Multi-reader institutions: Double the above rate Name Address I enclose a donation for the Fighting Fund of Cheques, POs and Money Orders should be made payable to 'Socialist Challenge' Complete and return to: Socialist Challenge, 328 Upper Street, London N1.
Socialist Challenge 24 January 1980 Anyway what counts is not numbers but programme. I don't care whether the SWP (UK) is twice or five times bigger than the IMG. centrist policies of Cliff and Hallas can only confuse the SWP militants whatever their number CHRISTIAN RONSE, Brussels IN ALL of the debates concerning Afghanistan one question keeps forcing itself into my mind. When will Afghanistan qualify for entry into 'deformed workers' states'?
Charles Lister, in Socialist Challenge No 129, manages to trip very lightly over this subject: 'Will the Russians impose a socialist system?', he asks (my emphasis).
Perhaps realising that he has pitched the odds a little too high he then cools down a bit: "The evidence. points the other way.' But just suppose that the Afghan economy is nationalised (or 'planned" in your parlance) what then? Will you still oppose the intervention of the *Red' Army? Or will you, as your international journal Intercontinental Press already does, acclaim it as part SUBSCRIBE NOW £12.50 £18.00 boosted by Canada, Denmark, Zambia. being taken out in Israel, Sweden, Yugoslavia and even China, we hope they will follow this example. raising money by selling stamps on the market and asks in particular for albums and send Socialist Challenge.
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GEORGE KEREVAN's article on Belize (Socialist Challenge 10 January) might have been written by an agent of the Guatemalan junta, so full is it of mystifications.
We are told that Belize 'effectively blocks Guatemala from the sea'. Even if this were true it would hardly be a major grievance; many other countries survive total lack of any coast. However, the maps you produce show not only coast between Belize and Honduras, but bundreds of miles of Pacific coast for Guatemala. Perhaps George Kerevan WHAT'S LEFT vord; serai-display t2 a colar Cling Committee. Fri 25 Ja • Central Hall, organisations and campaigns tenants or one and aus police and real raise "UBLIC MECHIN * Koes Leninis oxia Library. Last Alad denunciations.
In the meantime I would suggest that the presence has more to do with maintaining an independent position for Britain in competition with the USA for markets and investment in Latin America.
The article seems to be inspired by the absurd view that we should support anyone who disagrees with British imperialism. In the past it is true that socialists have often supported for instance , BoeTs or Zionists. By now they should have learned better.
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