The scan: sc-n81-feb-1-1979.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 32 of Cormac's weekly Bad Taste strip: Fascist Half-Hour.
Cormac, "Bad Taste" no. 32, Socialist Challenge no. 81, 1 February 1979, page 14. From the Marxists Internet Archive scan.
The strip, panel by panel
1. BAD TASTE by Cormac #32.
2. (Switching on the television — "click".) Thinks: "Think I'll get the news and hear how the strike's going —"
3. (Television:) "— It is now clear that the Labour government has abdicated and the country is now ruled by strike committees —"
4. "Wahey! The soviets! Dual power! This is it! We shall now begin to construct the socialist — —"
5. (The television set walks off:) "Don't get your knickers in a twist! That was just some looney Tory babbling on 'Fascist Half-Hour'!" (The man:) "Oh, shit!"
