IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Shattering the past

· Socialist Challenge No. 164, 18 September 1980 · p. 14 of the scan · 161 words

The scan: sc-n164-sep-18-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 14 of the scan

voted for Goldwater we'd JACKIE Charlton left the pitch in tears. Why the press outrage? He and the Sheffield Wednesday players he manages had just been Oldham.

Cup.

image of Charlton. alone, struggling Kings and desires.

even family at— allack• They are kriown as 'football thugs'. but iust as a supporter doesn't stop thinking of his/her club after leaving the ground, so youth, passing through the turnstile on the way in, don't discard men conalton as unemployeu o low paid, sexually and racially op pressed, prospectless victims of the capitalist crisis.

The response to their anger will presumably be more rigid crowd control - as a consequence of the crisis the strong state is needed in the football ground as well as outside the factory. The outrage of the police, national, and local icons for a few minutes on a Satur day afternoon — all these are measures of the potential of a correct revolutionary strategy for youth struggles.

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