IMGpapers 1976–79

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OUR FUND DRIVE Lilo Galante and your

Socialist Challenge No. 106, 26 July 1979 · p. 12 of the scan · 331 words

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Who dares now to doubt that the Western World faces an economic depression the like of which hasn't been seen for 40 years The final, conclusive, overwhelming proof came last week in the US of 4.'No, creeping insanity of the peanut president, not even the news of impending crisis in the Florida tomato industry; no, the final proof came in the death of Carmine 'Lilo' Galante, slain with a cigar in his mouth while lunching in a backyard of a Brooklyn restaurant.

Our first reaction to the death of the Mafia boss was that the armed struggle had finally arrived in New York and that justice had caught up with Galante for his killing in 1943 of the anti-fascist newspaper editor Carlo Tresco. But all such ultra-left fantasies have now been dispelled enabling more conjuncturall! correct analysis to b¢ drawn.

This being that, as we all know, watchine oid movies. such killings trademark of the years of the last depression and that accordingly history is repeating itself: Mafia killings = depression.

And if that doesn't strike you as scientific enough, well you have only yourself to blame. Registered with the Those of us on the paper explain the ways of the world to our audience are suffering from an acute, even desperate lack of resources. not the We need money like we have never needed it before. not least to assure our relaunch as a 16 page paper in a couple looking at you kids, make us an offer we can't refuse.

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