Stansgate. The later change of name caused some controversy in ornithological circles.
Only recently has this bird begun to show its true class. Observers report that it is returning to the place it started from at great speed.
Your correspondent should worry high-flying superstar birds and be more concerned happening among ordinary working pigeons. What we really want to know is how to build the Revolutionary Loft.
IAN BLUNT (Hackney) The alternative strategy' SOCIALIST Challenge readers in the Labour Party are unlikely to be impressed by Tariq All's strange claim that 'the Labour left lacks even a left reformist programme' (1 February). This claim seems unfounded, given the evidence of broad support to be found for the Alternative Economic Strategy.
In fact, resistance to the current crisis is frequently axed around the themes of this strategy. Textile orkers call for import controls to jobs. Engineering workers the sack for takeovers by the National Enterprise The current sharp upsurge of wage iancy by lorry drivers and council can ony placc ine whoic question of incomes policy and a new THE DEADLINE for this the Saturday COLOR WARRINGTON Socialist Challenge groupe Total Challenge office for Man details. 061-236 2352.
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MY MOTHER is a kitchen assistant in a hospital, and for two years I worked as an auxilary nurse fully support the strikes by low-paid workers. But i can t accept attitude Inat ambulance drivers shouldn't answer emergency calls — that this would be the most militant and therefore "right" thing to do.
From my own hospital experience I know that callpeople will die emergency unanswered.
- it is they who are first on the scene, and it is often their skill (not doctors') that means the difference between and death. This especially true in the case of cardiac arrests - heart attacks.
It's no use saying it's the fault of the Labour government, the capitalists, if someone did die. In the end that may be true, and yes of course government manipulating consciences of the workers it pays so little. Just as it (hypocritically) shows verv little conscience when it shut: hospitals and cuts back staff, so that people certainly do die as a result.
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Rigidly saying 'the end justifies the means' is the kind of thinking that led frag- to Stalin's Russia.
Until you realise that, you'll not have the trust of the ordinary working people of this country. If socialism means we have factories, cripple industry, then yes If it means crippling or killing our own people - then no KATE CAHILL (London N7 So l Anti-Zionist work your IN your issue of 25 January you tell anyone interested work to contact either Palestine Solidarity know that Socialist Challenge is alive if and well, but not so the PSC, which has just disbanded.
Anyone interested in anti-Zionist work should contact the British Anti-Zionist Organisation Solidarity, which among other things is works to expose the links between Israel and various regimes including South Africa. The address is: George Mitchell, 90 John Street, HANNAH ROBERTS (York)
the the 'Troops Out' reports RECENT reports Challenge of leave much to be desired as far as scope and accuracy go. Geoff Bell's article on the London march of 28 January makes no mention of which organisation called it Regular readers will know that it was Provisional Sinn Fein. But not every reader is a regular reader. Anc know one of the uses of the paper is te inform people about political developments and struggles they might otherwise not be aware of. mention in this case was made of market and of activities Midlands local Challenge Ginningham 1021) 643 2igh Street. Digbeth Boks Fool Bly readers neme nu br BATH Socialist Challenge sales ever Sales Ring Bath 20298 for turther side macis SOUTHAMPTON Socialist Challence salve vary stude, margatm-1pm Days, a 11. 30pm-1pm. Challenge TOWER lenge sell Socialist Saturdays, ha. London NYo marks, 110 Cheltenham Road every sat say tampin the a Britannial case and the BRENT NORWICH Socialist Challenge sales every Saturday in Davey Place not inhumanity. which sented.
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The Editorial Board has to commit itself to ensuring that what appears in the paper on Irish solidarity improves in quality. There is no way that respect for its policies can be won and kept, in my opinion, unless this is the future. particularly important, too, because of the good coverage of activity for the International Tribunal which has recently been included ROGER HURCOMBE (Leeds)
THE LENGTH of letters printed will usually be kept down to 400 words in order to encourage as wide a range of contributions as possible. All letters may be cut at the Editor's discretion. Unsigned letters will not normally be published, although we will withhold real names from publication on Road. Rome. Next meeting Thur are SUOM on Iran.
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