In Socialist Challenge (12 January) -was predominanily and rightly concerned with the racist articies of Muger McKinnon and the problems of Irish and Scottish nationalism, we were appalle to see in vews from Nowhere the sub-heading "Racal Welches on Sanctions".
References 1o Raquel Welch are all too obvious; nevertheless, objectionable stur against the Welsh who are 450 1 determination.
We realise that racism of all kinds has hecome part of the language of imperialism. However El is the responsibility of all real socialists to challenge and change this language and the deep-rooted prejudice it implies by refusing to employ such racist surs against any oppressed nationalities belter than the remarks of McKinnon himself and will do nothing to further the causes of internationalism or of revolutionary socialism in Wales, ALISON WOOD, KEVIN WOOD, Bristol which the "joke' contains an a struggle Tor self in essence, no and the combient or question technology "evolution', no other whole range of ideological available regard hardly be male women DUNHAM Socialiet Chelenge graup ast ort 2 March: wi stalls Trem 1.
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HULL- Por detalis YOUNG NATIONAL FRONT TOIN HERE A CLACION CALL TO THE FRESH & HORTNY As the leiter we are criticising was so much relations, confidently in such terms, we are surprised that the most basic reciprocal interaction missing trom the insistence on the potities of tecnological control.
Burbura Hill, Cuthy Shelley (London NWI) Thatcher's racism ASCATHOLIC CHRISTIANS, we have never believed thar if is compatible with Christian sucar Leane o suporta committed to tite upholdine of the unrisbreous system of capitalism as the Conservative Party "However, in Mis Thatcher's statemen on immigration of 30 January, we see in its most extreme form yer the racism Fascism within that parte. It is a phenomenos which is lar more dangerous than that of the outside Ubowe Bar Post Ortice, Bengale Inn, Vincent MIDLANDS "HE WOJLD LIKE TO THANK THATCHER, ANDERTON AND THE B.B.C. FOR PAL THE HELP TREY'VE QUEN OS IN RECeNT WEEKS."
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newspaper presented often relatively maust not be in the future. ANDY CELLEN (London) herwever, this does not appearto be the nature of the argument which is being levelled Rather it appears that the label 'intellectual vulgar and barrow we are all in a sens 'intelectuais' witbin our own spheres of worl and other activitics. As Gramsei par it. man(sic) carries on some lerut of intellectua activity, that is... he participates in a particula and Theretore contributes ter sustain or to modify it.
Second, the acusation of intellectual bias begs the question of the content of n socialist relation Specifically, under what conditions and in what forms can such a newspaper mediate struggle and activate aid progressive class fraction around political and idcological issues? This question can only be resolvod afler asking The arrival of Socialist Challenge Socialis Unity on the political sone was a hybrid ¿isaffection witl traditional, Inflexible adherence to what wal strict Leninist politica The new political formations which have grown from this disaffection offer the pocential of political advances precisely because they recognise that a political vanguard acknowledee that socialist consciousness has it conditions of permination within a diverse and cultural torcain. It has not been in the past, and the function Socialist Challenge/Socialist Unity to indaig n political chauvinism at the expense of th self-activity of chose groups within such a terrain. Such a policy can only result in politica. oppartuniin of the sort which E currearly heing implemented hy the Communist Party