SocialistAction 1983–88

The paper of the Socialist League, formerly the International Marxist Group, 1983–88

People's Revolution

Socialist Action No. 105, 14 June 1985 · p. 8 of the scan · 403 words

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Speakers include:

Senor Francisco d'Escoto — Nicaraguan Ambassador Jack Collins Stuart Holland MP John Ross — Socialist Action Andy de la Tour — Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Friday 21 June at the Caribbean Centre; :

I urge you to attend the 21 June launch tion of individual achievement is the view that those of us who do not rise above separate themselves from the mass are worthy of recognition only en masse And this recognition only extends the power we wield through organisations - the trade unions and Labour Party With growing mass alienation of large sections or the population the government: with the in clusive economic broken at the feet of an increasingly threatened capitalist class, more and more individuals will seek auventure assert their self identity.

Our job is to fight for the collective identity of out ing class We also have to internationalist scabs who while not being responsible for the Brussels tragedy were instrumental precipating the carnage there They against numanily They are scabs against the righ of the peaceful assembly. They are scabs against the most oppressed sections of HAVE DO IT FOR MAGGIE!

YCTRE RIGHT! GOD! - Secretary Kent NUM Vestminster Bridge Rd, SEI I shall value this book greatly and will be able to use it in speeches and broadcasts...

meeting.' Tony Benn MP society who have the most to fear from stepped up policing. They who will cause further restrictions on travel rights such as those experienced by the Kent miners they acainst al those whose daily lives are made les oppressive following the recreation of their choice.

There is an alternative to increased state intervention into and contro over sport. The labour move ment should campaign to make the social activity of the working class its own It should campaign against the 'professionalism the adver onculalcu. tisement sponsored sport more like a war for profi than a search for athleti and team excellence.

To end this state of affairs the game should be wrested from its business supporters and reinvested in the hands of the genuine supporters. And these sup porters would know how to control and marginanse the violence of anti social CHICAL They would treat them like should without recourse to the bourgeois courts — firm6:35 ,°CORMAC IF THEY WANT TO TRAVEL ABROAD AND MURDER SOME FOREIGNERS, PAY THEM A DECENT WAGE AND LET THEM FOR THE QUEEN.

( (God bless'er)

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