await a continuation of the debate. If nothing else has been acheved. ine ceodit is now in the open. Let it and boltised without perverted claims anti-semitism being levelled at critics of the state of Israel. Surely, adherents OI Zionism believe that they have a they can forward and argue its case in its merits, and not use antisemitism as a refuge.
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detentions are increasing. want food!' de la Piedra, chairperson of FNCR WHILST IT is inevitable that the bourgeois press can set the agenda for what makes news, it is the duty of the left to set the terms of the debate itself. The article 'Victory to Argentina!' (27 June) failed to tackle the political issues The real story behind the World Cup -ignored by the world's media (and Socialist — is the way that the Mexicar government has used it to divert attention from its savage austerity policies and increasing So important did the Mexican government consider the exercise that one of its first declarations after the earthquake last September was to affirm that the World Cup would go • and the first grants were given to the hotel industry. Meanwhile the Committee of the Disaster Victims is the object of a governmentThe minimum wage has been reduced by 40 per cent in real terms in the last ten years. Price: of basic foods have been deregulated and These policies have led to strikes and demonstrations by workers' and peasants' organisations which have been brutally repressed by the police. 'Disappearances' and arbitrary The people in the shanty town surrounding the Neza stadium don't even have running water and electricity. bicy are renasg to pay or in decorations carried out by the government to prettify the area for tourists, and are mobilising around the slogan 'We don't want football, we Socialists should be using the occasion of the World Cup to highlight their campaign and that of the Nationa Front Acainst Repression (FNCR) for the return of the 'disappeared', amnesty for the detainees, and the campaign to award the Nobel Peace Prize to Rosario Ibarra