Save the universe from Ronald Reagan! | Socialist Action 1983

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THIS WEEK in the United States the Hollywood style promotion agency which they used to call the "free press' has gone into full swing behind President Reagan's bizarre 'Star Wars scenario' for the next nuclear war.

The theatre strategy the where we get obliterated by Act II has failed stir anything but a massive growth OI CND-type movements all over So they had to curope. try something else.

The ACTU Option' was a catchy title, but thin on plot.

It was ont the cynical Thatcher and the dull EP Thompson that could suspend their disbelief long enough to take that one on board.

promotional deal WiLd Luke Skywalker and the Androno Darth Vader 'Now', as they say in the films, 'that really somerith laser guns and flashing lights, they want see us queuing oblivion.

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LABOUR'S VICTORY in Socialist Action 1 April 1983

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100 Years of Marx