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Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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· Socialist Challenge No. 84, 22 February 1979 · pp. 15-16 of the scan · 548 words

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the rear wheels.

And they talk about 'crushing the pickets' -under a juggernaut Foden or Leyland or Dat. driver killing driver (neither of them being drunk) because the one tried to speak to the other al a gate. Robert Watson, 37, A LORRYDRIVER on picket duty was killed on 18 January when he was hit by a lorry as it left the Shell oil depot at Aberdeen harbour. The man was hit as he moved towards the vehicle to speak to the driver as the lorry passed through the dock entrance. Another picket said that the driver did not stop and the man fell under well, they crushed one in Scotland on Thursday Chinese Shadows by Simon Leys Penguin, 80p pbk. A western organiser of a trade exhibition in Peking was A asked: How many visitors would you like to have? Twenty thousand? Forty thousand? Sixty thousand?' Exactly 60,000 visitors turned up at the exhibit. Perhaps example typifies Simon impression of Mao's China.

The post-Mao period opening up, with the outcome likely to have a major bearing on dynamics of the world revolution. Shadows, a well informed humorous account of China under Mao, provides a background to in what he had thought was momentary anger or or through the newspaper he carried in the cab)

minder of how similar the Cultural Revolution was to the Moscow Triais.

Spared to unite with anyone, even the most reactionary west, to preserve their own positions of power.

Moscow trials has any bearing, so any analogy with the liberalisation under Khrushchev warning.

"Kruschev' triumph at this stage.

this masses break from the bureaucracy -Leys' an essential feature of Stalinism and organise their own lives, is now lived.

Their ability Chinese but against imperialism.

turns made bv Mao.

aescripave ramer uan anatyucal it is priced at an attractive 80p.

SUS on stage native Youth London.

The play, the police, and the sus laws.

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Above all Chinese Shadows is a reThe Peking Stalinists were prepoliticians in the However, if the analogy with the should come as a do not know whether a 'Brezhnev' will What is certain is that unless the Many gains made at present will be shortto force the bureaucracy away from its disastrous foreign policy even in the short term IMG remains important in the struggle Chinese Shadows isn't clear as to the reasons behind the reactionary The author admits that his main object was to be To dispel the Maoist mythology that has passed as Modern Marxism the book is vital reading, especially as THE NEWLY-formed Forum Alter- tion Theatre, featured in Socialist Challenge earlier this month, has found two London locations for This Green and Pleasant Damian Duggan-Ryan, is about young blacks, 1.15pm, March, Soho Poly Theatre Club, 16 Riding House St. London W1. And 1.15pm, 6 to 19 March, Kings Head Theatre Club, Up&p ...Land or Death ...Iran: The Unfolding Revolu ...The Transitional Program Send cheque to: The Other 328 Upper Street, bOOKSnOD.

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Socialist Challenge be on the verge of settling with the government. They will not accept the

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