I MUST protest against the cover of the 4 January issue (although not from a political standpoint). How do you expect supporters of Challenge to sell a paper on the streets with a cover that resembles a calendar more than a socialist newspaper?
In my opinion most of the recent covers have been poor. This is a pity, because otherwise the content has been reasonable. coverage, the "At Work' article, and the attack on sexism in teenage mags and comics, etc. surely deserve a better Death to the Shah'.
1 appreciate the importance of the Fund Drive to the paper's existence, but if Socialist Challenge is to survive there must be an increase in sales. This will not be achieved unless forethought is put into the design of the covers. However, I don't believe that it is just a lack of forethought. It is probably related to whom the paper is directed - "the advanced militant'.
A socialist paper in a country like Britain cannot afford the luxury of preaching to the converted. How can a paper be directed in the main at advanced militants when one of the major problems is the absence or shortage of such people?
And then again, if an advanced militant is someone who consistently takes the side of the working class, then I know many such people who find Socialist Challenge unattractive, to say the least.
STEVE ROSE (Preston)
BY CORMAC #30 Socialist The international these cover than '1979 from the skies in their B-52s.
ADe allowed posthumous more their Cambodian victim (besides the concept of socialism, Cambodian episode.
given more Shame!
(Manchester) than were the Americans when they conducted their own reign of terror The Americans cannot and should tO derive any credit the which murderous retribution wreaked by foes. the 5? million Cambodians left alive) is undoubtedly which cannot be unaffected by the terrible If papers like Socialist Challenge and spokespeople like Tariq Ali had time and space to Cambodia then the damage might have been less. Instead the chief apologist of the Cambodian regime is How is it possible to arrive at a prescription for action in the absence of all this? The whole article is an example of orthodox Trotskyism at its most idealist; first find a situation vaguely resembles pre-ordained model from "Every THE VICTOR IETNAMESE THE SHAHE KEYOLOTIONS IN socialist enough, is too nationalist, etc.
This apparent only be explained by the fact that the Provisional Republican movement is engaged in a war against the British imperialist state.
contradiction can Now, when that the complete this Socialist Challenge conment that it will not support the movements of the oppressed when they engage in a fight against the British imperialist state.
MARY GORMAN [Manchester]