Britain as a campaigner against racism.
details about regular editors of the paper. TARIQALIcameto this country from Pakistanin 1963. Already he had been active in opposition to the military dictatorship in Diora Universay for too on in 1909 country. for organising a violent protest against the South African ambassador. In 1967 he joined the Vietnam Solidarity Campaign and in April 1968 the IMG.
Since 1969 he has been a member of the leadership of the IMG and the Fourth International and has travelled extensively to, among other places, Vietnam, North Korea, China and Japan The editor of Socialist Challenge will be Tariq All, well known internationally as a representative of the Fourth International and in The International Marxist Group has tried to put representatives from its different areas of work onto the editorial board to provide all-round knowledge and experience. Readers may be interested in some hanned rom me boA.
Bolivia, North Revolution. on behalf of the International. He is France. Switzer land, Bolivia, Turkey, Hong Kong and Tariq was editor of the Black Dwar from 1968-70 and the Red Mole, the first IMG paper, from 1970-72. More recently he is best known for the leading part he has played in the anti-racist struggles.
He is the author of a number of books, including Pakistan: Military Dictatorship or Peoples Power and The Coming British member of the Political Committee of the IMG, will be one of a team of editors responsible for home coverage in Socialist Challenge She was active in the Women's Liberanon Movement in Canada where sh joined the Fourth International in 1967. She studied women's history in Canada and labour history at Warwick University In Canada, shewas part of a collective which published a cartoon history of that country.
Dodie was one of the activists who first launched the Working Women's Charter Campaign in 1974 and was a member of the Steering Committee of the National Abortion Campaign until joining the Red Weekly staff recently. At present she is a member of the British planning committee for the international socialist-feminist conference in Paris in June.
She has been the national organiser of the IMG's work on women's oppression for three years and is editor of Socialist Woman.
GEOFFREY SHERIDAN is an extremely experienced journalist, having worked on a number of Fleet Street papers, and a long-time member of the IMG.
He has worked as a freelance, contributing regularly to The Guardian and union newspapers. He has become known as a leader of the left wing in the National Union of Journalists London Freelance leading the fight against the right, led by the publicity-hungry Bernard Levin.
Geoff has been active in a number of political campaigns in the media. notablv he paved a maior part in th campaign to reinstate two journalists sacked by the BBC and in the Campaign Against Racism in the Media.
He has contributed regularly to Rea Weekly for many years.
*Our conception was to use the paper not just to present our line but to use it also as a tool of debate. The election campaign itself gave spur to this process. Now we have had this GEOFFREY BELL, who is responsible for news and Irish coverage, was born in Belfast and has written for the Irish Times, the New Statesman, The Observer and Time Out, as well as Red Weekly and Inprecor. He is author of The Protestants of Ulster, published by Pluto Press He is a former member of the Northern COOKSON (Red Weekly) Labour Irish Labour Party (expelled), Socialist Workers Movement (left Northern Ire(now SWP -the 5 October Civil Rights march in Derry in 1968, which started it all again.
Geoff is a long-time member of the he is on nie executine commitre ly he is on the executive Camden Trades Council. In 1973 he led a 14 week strike against a magazine an book company union" recognition. taken to the infamous National Industrial Relations Court, at which point the union panicked and called off its support for the action.
RICHARD CARVER is the editor res ponsible for the international coverage of Socialist Challenge.
Office Workers and the Transport and General Workers Union, he was expelled from his college in 1974 for his leading role in a student occupation study of the Basque nationalist ment. He has had a number of articles on the subject published, including one in a recent issue of internanional, and nopes Le have a book published in the not too stant ruture, ume pernmenng Most movemen Portuguese Spain in Struggle. He has written for the Spanish language press of the Fourth International and extensively for Weekly on Krivine pointed to other successes -for example the joint revolutionary left contingent in the French May Day demonstration was the first of its kind. There are also moves to Party (expelled), expelled). He took part in over victimisation and The strikers were Photo: G.M. COOKSON (Red Weeklw A former member of the Union of Post Since then he has worked on a detailed moveRichard has been active in the Spanish and an editor of different inter THE FIRST issue of Socialist C Labour defeat at the County C important electoral inroads. In Party has emerged as a credi remains fragmented in the face the Labour bureaucracy Despite a political setback sections of workers have launc standards. The Port Talbot elec their fight represents a clear number of social issues such unity in action is being forged threatens to divide the working Organised socialist opposi Socialist Challenge will mak socials ooos onto on in the forefront of the camp revolutionary left. Both these ta advance in the face of the seriou point for this startine tendencies within the trade un resist the attacks which have be Socialist Teachers Alliance is group militants - including m the Government's disastrous Such initial moves need exte be structured on a national s extend across union boundarie - such as campaigns and mov of socialist opposition would leaders of the labour bureaucra Far left divided The unity of the revolutiona organised left wing. Today th splits occur daily on disagree fundamental questions of proc of a programmatic nature th