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classic a hor i of Portrait firm shows of Teresa the Santiago Socialist Challenge Events Socialist Challenge 6 May 1982 page 10 Hude Vic Carso BIFU, Jackie Traylor, AUEW Hoover, RADICAL NURSES 15 May lamelails 218 Heavygate Rd, Sheffield 10 • Ma adopted was solution, why it was not the best way to defend the interests of women mineworkers, whv it did no strengthen the position of the miners or of the working class as a whole against the bosses.
About half of Eileen's article is devoted to an attack on miners and their that so readers in the NUM will not assume that SC supports the charge that the NUM will defend women memoers or lne union.
No one would say that the NUM (or any other has perfect record, and I'm certainly going defend Gormley and his right wing colleagues from the Lancashire leadership. However Eileen Murphy's CONGRATULATIONS on deriving the only internationalist position on the Falklands crisis. A victory for the military will strengthen their economic and political lobby in Britain and in the Western Alliance generally.
However, the article 'Argentina: oppressed or oppressor?' (SC 22 April) raises the need for further widening of socialist understanding on this issue. The Argentinian economy is part of the scaffold of world imperialism - th rich and urban middle class benefit whilst the majority suffer.
Hence the fact that the anticapitalist forces in the country are overwhelmingly working class and socialist inspired. In "third world' or fully dependent economies, it is typically the imperialist movements. nian workers.
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Co Durham peasant/rural population who lead antiThe way in which European and American imperialism 'sub-contracts' its economic and political power (and in the process develops the country to its own ends) must not be ignored.
Application of Trotsky's writings in a 'bibilical' way would blur this distinc tion and lead to a wrong emphasis in the paper, leading many to believe we support Argentina, instead of ArgentiThe central slogans are right as is the emphasis placed on the issue in of imperialism in only the revolution can lay the basis for the new society. The urgent task for revolu tionaries in Iran and Irag is create leadership which will take its place at the head of a mass move ment lo overthrow bot tyrannies in short, turn the two bonapartist-capitalist states into a civil war Elsewhere in the same issue in connection the dehate on Cuha, Brian writes anoul linking up the generation revolutionaries of action I agree with this provided we do not lose sight of the Marxist axiom. revolutionur! revolutionur movement? theory.
CHARLIE VAN GELDEREN
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