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

Britain looks on as Smith's racists rampage MURDER AT DAWN

· Socialist Challenge No. 69, 26 October 1978 · p. 16 of the scan · 881 words

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women were eating breakfast when writes RICHARD CARVER.

tney ma at once, but invaders captured one women who enticed 80 of her friends out. It was a trap — the When the invaders sought out the other 30. a well-placed hand grenade dealt with them.

which was not plastered over the front pages of the tabloids, took place in Africa.

SAVAGERY The attackers have unbridled Teoutanon Tor vagery among right-thinking scople the world over. They are Rhodesian soldiers.

Needless to say the press didn't pull out the stops over BRIGNULL.

Part of the paper's circulation drive must be to win subseribers, especially readers who only buy Socialist Cnallenge waen tney run auross a seller.

THE LAST week has not been a good one for the paper. Our debtors have been knocking at our doors.

first time since the months under £100 arrived in our offices for the Fund Borive. ne received makes the Domestic: 6 months, f5: 12 months, £10 Name Address I enclose a donation for the Fighting Fund of Complete and return to: and Mozambique in the same way as incy aa waen tne acad were white -the fact that the death toll ran into thousands.

PROUD But even they had to sit up and look when lan army started tramping unhinceree over large pornons southern Africa.

The Rhodesians themselves are proud of this. even released the transcripts of radio conversations between leaders of the bombing raid and air traffic control in Lusaka.

The COLDUICHY Kaunda regime in Zambia is as evident as the contempt Smith feels for his black neighbours in LNC HOLLI Only davs after Zamhia had Anniversary of the Fourth International Rhodesia, the and this despite Zambesi.

Smith's land was Dewnderca Dy whole bizarre episode.

They have anyway?' he asked.

the MASSACRES wiped out thousands of unarmed gees.

victims, but that Smith was after instead the belted back to square one.

reckon that African needees or me Win subscribers 1979 diary.

The target ourselves for £1,000 this special offers.

level of new subscriptions.

Every supporters"

6-month your campus while you are sale. to have to *Organise effort sale, or Guy Fawkes racist Last week's accepted the kind invitation and poured its troops across the Baffled air traffic controllers had clearly been told to give the Rhodesians free passage. And in case they were a little reticent the racists threatened to bomb shit out of them if they refused.

The pilot of a Kenyan airliner circling Lusaka in an attempt to the priority here (This Well, I think the Rhodesians do at this time,' came the reply.

months ago).

The racist regime has every reason to feel proud of itself. In the latest and largest of a long line of similar massacres it has refu- with him.

There may even have been CORPSES isn't There hasn't been a word of protest from the imperialist capitals — there never is — and Anglo-American diplomatic offensive has been itself Britain and the United States massacres.

The solemen win some erstwine nationalists nerenuv unstabie and wIsH te initiate all-party talks involving diplomacy offers, because this includes a have set income Towns subscriptions is an additional quarter of supporters This is apart larger. from renewals and the normal group has been asked to win at least one *Take a collection for the paper at your place of work, on DOO. Stall doing a street *Buy fund-raising _a film show, jumble lottery. bonfire party. Camden Socialist Challenge supporters showed the T. J. Gregory S. White B. Wilson sponsorship John Thackara Jan colock Ronnie Held invasions Zambia and Mozambique are both a display of bravado to boost failing white morale and a lasting obstacle to talks.

APOPLECTIC Joshua Nkomo, one of the Patriotic Front leaders, was justifiably apoplectic at the accusing white journalists of being racist (true) and saying that he would never, ever talk to lan Smith again not to be taken absolutely literally since this is the same Nkomo who had secret talks with Smith not two Hence Smith will now make an effort to present himself as the conciliator (with the help of Fleet Street) and the Patriotic Front will, quite rightly, not dare to have anything to do The silence from Whitehall has been as predictable as it is deafening. The Foreign Office will use the murders for its own purposes, to demonstrate the need to send British troops in -La recipe SIOE further politics behind the murders are thus byzantine in the extreme - but what can be expected from a regime whose On the corpses of children? new regular reader per week for ten weeks. inals ten special offers per town - except for Manchester, where the number is signiticantis So... we have eight weeks left. Are you doing your bit to help us reach this target?

way last week with a showing of Mick Gold's documentary film on the surrealist move- and why not sell? tickets for our mas We have too many good ideas on how to improve the paper to let minances stand in our way. But they are doing just that.

THIRSCHS WEEK.

£3.50 Non-smokers sponsorship £3.70 £1 £3 Pat Fryd (non-smoking £12.65 Camden SC Group Roland Sheret (in memory £10 £5 E5 Cash Anonymous £5.20 £90.75 VIDELA BEGIN PINOCHET SMITH

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