IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

Censorship

Socialist Challenge No. 117, 11 October 1979 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 450 words

The scan: sc-n117-oct-11-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 15 of the scan

•TO the date of the next full GO in Islington North London: playgroups, childminder centres, Mother and Toddler clubs [sic], and more besides, because the Labour council aims to cut 52 per cent of its grant aid to under fives' projects.

Six hundred local people, many of them parents and young children, marched against this axe last Saturday, October at 6.30pm, of the world'.

fees MANY overseas students at North London Polytechnic this term have not been able to pay tne extornona : and racist. increase in tuition fees, which have risen by a third to f1,026, in line with government policy.

They have been temporary students, paying fees for a month only. The students' the Poly meets in a fortnight to decide what action to take.

The next council meeting is to be lobbied, on Islington Town Hall, to be told by Islington's mayor that the cuts were 'the way London N1. Details from Maggie McDonald 01-278 1713 [day], 01-278 2682 [eve]. in student Portugal was left-wing but not the way, enrolled as union at of Hally criteria defend jobs. remoyed.

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Wall Shah's rule, in to Upper St, KHUY The censorship and sacking of Jorge Ribeiro and Antonio Cartaxo when the challenge to capitalism at its height in 1975 showed that it was acceptable to have when right-wing dictatorship was in power, once it was overthrown (Trade unionists at Bush House, by did absolutely nothing to defend Ribeiro and Cartaxo).

No doubt BBC External Services provides a less biased, or at any rate a differently biased news service thar the repressive regimes around the world, but that is not the which the labour movement should be called on to Monitoring It was British imperialism which helped to instal and maintain many of those regimes, and it is in the interests working class that they are From this consideration, as well as that of press freedom, the opposition to the cuts in External Services should be based on the demand for full access to de given to namona. hberatiol Left-wing East Euro dissidents should also be provided with access.

During the dying • days of the the BBC allowed the Iranian embassy in London to lister External Service broadcasts through a direct link to Bush House • If the BBC can be so courteous to the likes of the Shah, it can do the same for everyone else who wishes to the Foreign Office's Aunty is up to. Monitoring facilities should be made readily available Socialist Challenge 11 October 1979 Page 15

page 16 of the scan

Socialist Challenge NO TO ABORTION

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