Bad Taste no. 29: armed self-defence of the clergy

by Cormac · Socialist Challenge No. 78, 11 January 1979 · p. 14 of the scan · 136 words

The scan: sc-n78-jan-11-1979.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

This text was corrected by hand against the scan: the strip at the head of page 14, which the machine reading did not see; image taken from the scan and its lettering transcribed (18 Oct 2026). Number 29 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: armed self-defence of the clergy.

page 14 of the scan

Five-panel cartoon strip: a worried cleric in his armchair broods on the parlous state of the moral fabric of society and arrives at a new slogan, "Armed self defence of the clergy!", blunderbuss in hand. — Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 29, Socialist Challenge no. 78, 11 January 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.

The strip, panel by panel

1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #29.

2. (A cleric in a flowered armchair thinks:) "You people in Britain may sneer in your cynical fashion — but we live in parlous times."

3. (At the window:) "The moral fabric of society and so on ..."

4. "It is time that the correct slogan for the new situation was raised ..."

5. (Holding a blunderbuss:) "Armed self defence of the clergy!"

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