IMGpapers 1980–83

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

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· Socialist Challenge No. 169, 23 October 1980 · pp. 9-10 of the scan · 266 words

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page 9 of the scan

hatred of the Soviet Union is very deep here. The idea that workers' militia or the class consciousness of the Western letarial wil defend the Union quite frankly dream; I think that most people realise that.

A workers' militia is all very well against something armed remotely similar But the case of Chile showed that have immense heroism and relatively good organisation, id but you need to have a similar technological level of weapons to deteat an organised and politically coherent on side. What goes for a civil war situation also applies to international conflicts.

The level of technological DOWCT that the such that a militia while very nice and a very useful back up, is no substitute for a conventional army - armed in much the same way as your opponents.

The hatred st Union by the Western ruling classes, and as we've seen with Reagan, the hatred of China, is very deep. There's a reason for it

page 10 of the scan

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