IMGpapers 1980–83

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

Anger - a great weapon

· Socialist Challenge No. 214, 24 September 1981 · p. 15 of the scan · 225 words

The scan: sc-no214.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 6-7 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 15 of the scan

in tavour or tne working class.

more 'starkly'.

'balanced' 'impartial like the BBC or the Times?

not enough.

John Reed an that Shook the World'.

Bolsheviks and statistics.

Financial Times the enemy is.

The Clash once said it -'Anger can be power, Do you know that you can use it?' Oxford ROB Jones letter, SC 212, 'Anger is no substitute called for less 'righteousness and unreasoned bias He thinks Socialist Challenge should report But isn't this going too far down the road to even 'moderate' reporting.

Anger is one of the greatest weapons the work. ing class and socialism have. The facts alone are If people aren't just going to accept the facts as given, they must get these facts in such a way that they know they can do something about them.

American journalist in St Petersburg in 1917, wrote a book called 'Ten Days It is absolutely brilliant journalism - precisely because it itsn't just facts. Reed makes the October Revolution live, he makes the soviet members, the the conditions real, not just If I want to know how bad the world is, I'll check it up in a government information bulletin or the - not Socialist Challenge!

The great thing about socialist newspapers is that they're committed, like us - they know who Socialist Challenge 24 September 1981 Page 15

← GUEA hungry people eats its government! →

Something wrong on this page?