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Socialist Challenge No. 245, 13 May 1982 · pp. 2-3 of the scan · 926 words

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FUND DRIVE:

If you would like to be put in touch with would like more information fill in the form below Name.

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Send to: Socialist Challenge, PO Box 50. London N1 2XP.

Socialist Challenge mOsi demented has been the Sun. 'HMS терогіст board Invincible Yours Gallen on the side Tony Snow wrote of a sidewinder missile and the Sun proudly announced that Il was inis missile WHICH ORd brought down an Argentinian Canberra bomber.

The Sun's racism has ALLENGE Socialist Challenge supporters in your area or 13 May 1982 page 2 is perfectly rational in its beliel Britain capable of hanging on to the Malvinas, ruling the waves and teaching the "dagos a lesson they won't forget Racism intruded into a BBC news bulletin which seriously warned that we that Argentinians are sort Latin SUn BiNGO: @50,000 -then Argentina res war treaty Their morals and ours donation to Socialist Challenge now!

ONE IN THREE SAY "our troops', 'our boys' or Last Monday Francis Pym also weighed in against the BBC bizarrely accusing it of bias agains Britain. Tuesday's Daily Mail published a series interviews who were 'outraged by the BBC's coverage. They were a 51-ycar-old bank manager from Aldershot OYCOTTS WAR Now back the truth...

look at the figures and send your (1), a 39-year-old auditor Chatham (1), 26-year-old marketin TREMENE Bill ingshurst and a 69-year old chartered accountant from Richmond Park Surof the British people! Clearly a cross section The Daily Telegraph last week published an article Yasmingion was by both the British and Sun SUB SANK OUR CRUISER, SAY THE JUNTA JOBS NOT WAR WARSHIP Argentinian lies about what was really happening in the war. These lies are systematically by ITY. BBC and all the press. Never has the power the media to whip up public opinion been clearly demonstrated. Last Sunday's demonstration got it right by marching to Never has the need for the revolutionary press been more graphically demonstrated. Socialist Challenge right from the beginning of the Malvinas crisis has hammered away at the insanity and injustice of the war hysteria. press has dealt Challenge doesn't have Rupert Murdoch's millions - in fact we're desperately short of money and lead a hand-to-mouth existence. So if you agree with us on the Malvinas please ensure that we have the am munition to fight back paper comes out and fights back. If you've been meaning to send us the odd pound or haven't quite got around to it, then this of all weeks is the time to do it.

the BBC The left must continue its own counter-offensive against the reactionaries in the media. And most of all it must redouble its own efforts to get out the truth. On this page we show how the popular the issue. But Socialist money to ensure that our two, but Our thanks this week to Swindon 834.00 Brian Slocock JA Vandor PO'Sullivan Middlesborough Malcolm, Haringey Wakefield Brent Islington 110.00 D Power West London 250.00 TOTAL £596.00 Weekly target 1230.76 Total so far E3126.00 Total should be E6153.80 Shortfall so far E3027.24

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WHO CAN overthrow the junta in Argentina? The working class, WILT tionary tradition, has a better track record than the British navy. No-one symbolises this better than Ernesto Guevara, the best known revolutionary of his time.

embodied the achievements of a new ceneration of stin American fichters. An interna. tionalist who left his own country to make revolution in another land, he came to socialism independently of the 'official communist parties.

Leaving his medical businesspeople fled. The USA em Dar00cd Cuban ed the sub-continent and sugar: Castro nationalisec saw how American and British imperialism shaped April 1961, two US navy and distorted it. Arriving hips sailed into the Bay of in Guatemala in 1954 h Pigs with a mercenary task was won to socialism. force American mild reform government hips, two battleships anc unact Jacopo aroeuz wils freighters oaded invaded Honduras tanks, artillery and for offending the mighty 1500 troops. Un The Unied Fruit But this time there was United no capitalist Comnany. welcome them: Department and Dulles - guerrillas armed the people they were in fact one and Who drove out the in the same unleashed the dogs of war,* said Che right, and He made his decision: declared that Cuba was *to become a revolutionary now to be a socialist physician, one must first republic. oi an make a revolanon.

On December 1956 he landed in Cuba with Fidel Castro from the tiny boat Not all Che's ideas bore fruit. He did not live the transform the • Cuban experience into an insurrec his own heroic attempt to Cuban perience in Bolivia failed when the people ignored his small band, , leading to his capture and death He did not see the twin and concentrated on the third world, and had no strategy to link up with the working class struggle in une uroa! centres of the world Conflict Nor did he grasp the vital importance of organised clash of ideas in transitional society which marked the early Revolution As Mandel had pointed out socialist man ning requires that the peo ple confront HOTO political and economic

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