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

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Socialist Challenge No. 174, 27 November 1980 · p. 6 of the scan · 257 words

The scan: sc-n174-nov-27-1980.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 6 of the scan

It looks the Party ex- "I THINK what we have to tell pants off them. are asking concillors to entheir visage is other cepting it.

Bernard Partgridge, the cil's public services mittee. November 1978.

Scott-Hopkins 12 December plains, you can not tell people wilal a nucical war Involve. otherwise there would be 'unwarranted panic'.

Lord Belstead, boss of civil defence affairs at the school that defending cratic right peoples to nuclear holocaust has to take pre- second place money. He rejects the idea of in- national undemocratic because it would cost 'billions and billions and billions of pounds'.

Instead he favours spendROBIN will scare the What we February o appalling that Brook- running chairperson of would have Greater London Counregional Everybody whitewash who is WIau jackets Home Office feels that demosurvive tect and Survive. saving shelter system concerned peroa Mead vic Civil Aid told a press conference in 1978: '...after attack would have to take wha they could get. If you saw a granting about to get rido radha d wash tive dust, cook it and eat will ing an extra £18m to provid. deep shelters for central and the government. else has to These their windows, around their people heads and make sure the gas and electricity is turned off -mesures recommended in the Home Office pamphlet ProThe state has made - in secret - careful preparations deep shelters to look after democracy in the event of a nuclear war. It is about troublemakers who might have some objection to being burnt to a

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