IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Inadequate analysis of anti-Semitic attacks

Socialist Challenge No. 173, 27 November 1980 · p. 7 of the scan · 248 words

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YOUR front page report of the bomb explosion outside synagogue was very disturbing. The Tora gosence or analysis 'was Comolded plainly opportunitie reference Pierre Goldman.

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