Was FANE economic ills on an excess of black immigrants.
Both sponsor racist attacks support white South Africa and hanker after the good old days or mochia sarchcour Been artiately one Front WOLICH S LILIES National recently France's moderately abortion law as 'genocidal'. The occasion for this last an remark was ine over ine publication Darquier Pellepoix, a former minister of march THe -Nanca regime. De Pellepoix, now in exile in Spain, claims that the murder six million Jews in Nazi ermans ama The Front National and its rejoins tes camarades!
leader Jean-Marie le Pen have been among his most enthusiastic defenders.
The FANE is thinking along the same lines. It has published pamphlet Mensonge d'Auschwitz (The Lie of Auschwitz).
Front branded PHOTOGENIC liberal This is the latest in a line of works of profound historical controversy scholarsmp wmen Includes Did of an Six Million Really Die?, a nasty piece produced journal Spearhead in 1974 he use of photogenic NH members on an international duver lay send a new blase in European co-operation.
The European into entitled Le want The joint election slate. pseudo-acaacula press print the No агор an WICH DIOSIVE Tierney's surprise, if he claimed that which believed.
bomber prospect of the Community elec- Tierney is INCHIUCE confusion. The probiem is unal tnese group work internationaliv but fascism i IS by definition a national creed.
THE *Euroright" which fortieth groups the French PFN, the Danisa cuerza vueva and int Italian MSI, met in Marseilles The central last week to discuss a possible At the same time the Front broader, National congress was deciding could only have European co-operation based on national patriotisms'.
That seems like a doctrine which will find favour in the bunker at Great Eastern Street. THE IKISH Writer • Brendan once observed that democracy peculiar attitude to bombs first une bigger une Domo, une more respectable it is. Thus it's OK to Japanese town, but if you plant in a disused railway station you can expect to be locked up for 30 vears A new twist to this rather odd set of values was displayed in Exeter Crown Court last week, Tierney -Was charged with DOSSCOSILLE ex-SuDSLalICES Police found three tins of sodium chlorate, a bottle of sulphuric acid, packets of sugar, batteries and flashbulbs hidden away in flat. diary contained the names of several Labour councillors and that of the local Labour agent.
He was found guilty. Then came the sentencing; to some rather lightly and given only three years. The judge said that thought Tierney had intended to use the explosive. against any of the names in his the diary he would have received a heavier sentence. Tierney had the explosives were for Guy Fawkes day, apparently the judge From the leniency of the readers will have gathered that, despite his name Tierney was not a 'mad IRA The names in the diary had all spoken out against the National Front, of which upstanding RALLY to mark the of the and Fourth International will be held on Friday 24 November.
speaker will be Ernest Mandel. We had hoped that the occasion could be made and accordingly letter was written to Tony Cliff suggesting a debate. But, as usual, not even a reply to the invitation was received.
So the rally will be have speakers from different parts of the world to talk about at Willesden has told him not to bother. . The normal procedure is for disputes to be dealt with by the office committee, in the instance, and the committee says the company will have to deal with them or no one at all.
The meeting is expected to be cancelled.
Chris Dark would have been a very dynamic representative. A few months ago he told the Wembley South branch of TASS: If Cooley is sacked for working on the plan, he will not To be continued...
Strike of the Year THE STAFF at the International Monetary Fund Offices in washington DC, have voted for They were SEEINGI rejecting a 6 per cent increase in wages. The average wage of an IMF staff member is £20,000 a year tax free Our economic correspondent comments: This strike reveals deep contradictions capitalism affecting the very heart of capitalist institutions. As Ernest Mandel writes on page 1178 of Late Capitalism "This is great"
Xmas issue READERS are still invited to submit short stories for this • year's competition. The winner will be printed in our Xmas issue caree a secenoer unies none are judged to be of SUNCE CURSE The judges will be Mervyn Jones. author of many novels for walesman. -Emma novelist and editor of Bananas; and Francis Mulhern, Marxist critic and member Socialist Challenge National Policy Committee The maximum length of stories should be 3,500 words, and the absolute deadline for arrival at our ollice Is November. Don't hold back, as haven't received many entries yet.
Socialist Challenge 23 November 1978 page 3
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