Writing crap the Waterhouse way. | Socialist Action 1983

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Keith Waterhouse, journaist for the Dally Mir.

plumbed new depths in his column last week. On the hundredth niversary Marx's death, Waterhouse devoted his pen to the sort of article you would expect to find in a boys public school house journal, Here are a few choice bits:

Marxism was hovhood craze. It came after cigarette-cards but petore girs. it was part of the process of growing up.

'One day were playing conkers and the YUU next were playing communists. It went with breaking wearing your first stif collar and trying to grow After apologising for his sexism. Waterhouse drivels on: tral flaw in Marxism - lus was ute cer you could not impress girls. and so Marxism — just like the state was about to do any minute now - withered away, and we transferred our interest trom now transformation of surplus value into capital is effected, to how to get girls' blouses lasts. ioned.' Hilarious.

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MARIANELLA Garcia Villa, chairperson of the Salvador Human Rights commission was killed last Sunday in La Bermuda.

Reports indicate that Socialist Action 25 March 1983 Sectarians PIERRE Lambert's 'Centre for Reconstruction of the Fourth International' (the French for have changed on NOW it's a workers farmers RUC Death A GENERAL ELECTION is taking place in Portugal on 25 April, in which the workers parties - the communisi Party and the Socialist likely win a majority of the votes.

But in all probability, rather than join to form working governthe Socialist ParIcilla ty will form a coalition with the bosses' parties.

Portugal going through suśtained economic cass. urabic lu way to new elections, and a possible CP-SP victory However the Socialist communisi are engaged in bitter sec Lantal war are The Soares-Gamma-Santos leadership of the SP want Government with some of 'National Salvation the bourgeois parties based a "social contract' at the expense of the workers. Slate he Cr on the other hand is giving tactical support to the formation of a 20-27 Votar COMICIO ANALDO MATO ANALDO MATOS POVO UNIDC ARNALDO MATOS ARNALDO MATO

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Human rights worker killed