WE ARE seriously concerned about what we see as a failure in Socialist Challenge. This is the seming lack of a political conception over reporting Last spring the IMG was going to build a nerwork of correspondents/ amateur journalists at local and regional level, But Socialist Challenge has been with is for nine months now, and we find that the Editorial Board has launched an anneal lor journalist, 'essential if we are to carry out the kind of presentation which we — and many readers - want to see" (Socialist Challenge, 2 February).
What will be the function of the new Journalist? To spend her or his time doing the work should be doing? As revolutionaries we want to further the struggle for SOCIEISET internationally, within our own areas. This means that all local Socialist groups to discover and report on events and issues in their areas, so that the paper can help us locally and so that we are in a better position to help HELLOILS EN WETO. (This will hopefully help eliminate Dodie Weppler's highly such as Dodie inaccurate relerence to the South Wales haulage strike in a recent issue of the paper.)
But all this needs to be done systematically, which just isn'T happening at the moment. Either the comrades in London are sweating away until 3am writing articles themselves because arcas haven't sent any in, or we find that articles sent in from local groups are not printed, and no reason is given -WE DON Let's have a clear conception given local journalists, and let's see the new huilding local and regional structures of reporting. The present Feet s type organisation must be replaced by maximum involvement From all the STRICU different areas, tunities will continue to slip away TEA UA ROY DAVIES (Swansea), DEREK DAVIES. ROSS OLIVER, PAUL HIGHFIELD (Cardiff)
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coverage and it? that local groups transactions including Challenge were gelling pre- 1970? TUNE point out • that remained incentive. factually P. HATFIELD (London] ments are set against profit in the first instead of over a period of years while Hine of this represent on tae cent investment when it is only the period over which tax allowances are made which would seem to have changed?
On the other hand, tax allowances are protected against inflation b capitil being released and reinvested Being neither an coonomist nor an accountant, for me and many others, facts left out of the analysis of leasing make the conclusions seem to come roninsance, me casor may gora tar allowance on purchasing equipment, Jessor not taxed? Doesn't a bank onb need to hold 8 percent cash for any loan it makes? Would it normally be practice for a bank to be taxed 52 per cent on that money if it doesn't loan Does is make a difference if are made through a subsiduary? If so, how? Don't firms with low profitability use leasing (Le. become lessees) in order to receive the equivalent of the tax allowances they that increasod Investments under this system wil increase unemployment, but you also 'Investment has they low in spite of the Would you please help us all to future supplying sufficient facts in for reading by militants not necessarily of claim, the way Carl Gardner did, that and Nagasaki. Ir's impossible for ate in this letter to point out all the dangers involved, bur the idea that nuclear eneras is particularly safe is simply absurd Of course, if you consider dirt u terms of what you can see and smell nuclear coergy is clean, because we have no senses radionctivty, decades and generations later so that the connection can't he proved Certainly it is easy to point • at reactionary cies within the antinuclear mover in order to discredit it. But in vin ly any movement there are hound currents that try to correct the r by turning history's wheel backwards Instead of forward. Staying away for that reason would be rather sectarian. It is the task of revolutionaries to win a majority for the correct political line within the movement think Sociulist Chullenge cou ontribute to the discussion ifit didn just publish political statements on the matter but if it supplied some sound information on how reactors work and precisely what hazards ar avolved, perhaps in the form of scrial.
ALAN LUDEN, [Tubingen, Germany] the BETTES that respond to Besides, the effect of pellbourgeois ten en The avoided sent than Mick.
ANL Becoming a expression and 4 June. effectively a lull set of resolutionary The kitchen sink approach that some of the revolution ary left use is designed to expose the revisionist rather than build the anti POSE OSCALL LI BELLE to establist a clear position on the key Cde Gosling correctly praives th ANL for mobilising in Mard This was not done hecause the ANI. had adopted any position on the bans, bul because the full timers of the ANI do have a programmatic position on the crucial ssues. This situation does not lead to real if limited unity with the reformists, but to manipulation.
Democratic decision making has to SEND I raise contentious issues, Thus the lack o democratic structure within the AND is a function, at least partially, of the inadequate programme of the ANL I is also possible to be less hoperal as to the overall impact of the AND Certainly much useful wark has been done hut, in the loa term, this may be vitiated by th organisation nature of the Thes proltibits it genuine organisational of the anti-fascist What is worrying is that the depre of manipulation involved may cod i an explosion that lands us not back at square one but at square minus one. It