I'VE only been selling Challenge for a few weeks. found the "No Bail for Jim Vicious' cover (19 October) messy, comrusins and basically lacking in appeal.
he punk TOCK gauche. Maybe it's only because I'm approaching over labour, political protest, even clear that the person in the photo was Jim Callaghan -people I tried to sell to The play on Sid Vicious wasn't clear to people either Sus who hadn't heard of Sid, nor to people who didn't understand the meaning of Caliaghan as a 'vicious' person. I don't mean to imply that the uneducated working class unfamiliar with day-to-day vicious capitalism, but that it was a rather sophisticated connection to make.
My suggestion is to have bigger involved in struggle. I feel we ought to blow-ups of photos present a more face' to the public will be seeing Socialist Challenge for the first time. Real people, involved in real struggles, along political slogans seem to make the most sense to me Finally, the cover of the 5 October - the one with only text on it -Issue not repeat it!
LINDA THALMAN (Manchester)
WELCOMED is rather Wage the anti-fascist struggle.
consistently - at least not to articles. - not to those indicative of grapple and rerusal to seriously, win them from Zionism people National Front, Jews.
Mary Marxist group. October) on the struggle of Jewish YOUR article ment militants against the ultra-cautious, cowardly approach of the bourgeois Board of Deputies of British Jews to Many of us who have been working involve Jewish organisations in the Anti Nazi League have felt both isolated and ignored by the movement in general. Part of the reason for this is the rarity of such We have understood this to be an unwin anes the reality of anti-semitism in Britain today and to develop a coherent strategy to fight it.
anti-semitism whether by intent OI omission, is hardly the way to attract Jewish youth to the ANL, let alone Finally, I object to the description of the Jewish Socialists Group in the arganisationare no ga up -Zimbers group numbers among its members both left-Zionist and anti-Zionists whose basis for unity lies in their socialism and in the fact that they are under threat by the racism and anti semitism precisely because they are Falsely labelling the JSG as proZionist merely creates unnecessary difficulties for those of us who are not Zionists and who support revolutionpositions within the CLIVE GILBERT (Manchester) intermediaries communities ass rope their hose and gentile ruling class countries (Germany. Hungary, etc.).
These Jewish boards of deputies, who represented the gentile establishrather than community at large, were not Zionists but individuals concerned with their own survival — apolitical. If Kastner tried to help Jews escape to Palestine, because no other country would take in Jewish refugees, he was being a humanist.
you suggest the Jewist communities should have willing! narched off to the gas chambers so a lot to be labelled Zionists G. WEINKOVE (Basildon) PAUL TICKELL's letter (5 October) concerning science and Marxism asserted as support for its line argumentation the "fact' that Marx intended dedicating Capital Darwin. Whilst I sympathise with the general tenor of the letter I would like to correct this false assertion.
It is true that the Soviet magazine the Banner published in 1931 a letter which it claimed was from Darwin to Marx in 1880 which graciously rejected the offer of a dedication. Recent work however has shown that this was a letter not from Darwin to Marx, but rather one from Darwin to Edward Aveling - that least attractive of Victorian socialists — in response to a request that he be allowed to dedicate his book The 8T Ci RAR is derived dialectical accepted without Bernstein - then, as the Democrats rightly inevitable! 1S Why not tackle ect active Or, in effect, COTSLTUCLIVC notion was butchery RAR's hundreds 'contradictions in ANL, Eurocommunists defend their movement's CHIS SO that Cornforth explains why diet.
must eschew all this What is scientific about the -range possible. All idea.
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bracket, but I'm not convinced the working class associates punk with
whatever it was that was supposed to be conveyed in the cover. It wasn't
was the most boring cover for a left paper I've seen in a long time. Let's
serious and actual - many of whom clear
Marxism as science
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