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Socialist Organiser1982 1982-02-11Read it in the scan (PDF), scan page 12 →
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I HAVE bought, read, sold and written for SO since it began and have come to the following conclusions.
The paper does not escape from the criticism I would level against all the left press. It does not speak to people as people; the jargon excludes most ordinary people.
Your writers are never content to report events but carried out simulated nuclear "alerts' involving a traditional scenario: large pipe breaks with subsequent loss of reactor colling water. On each occasion the malfunction was located and contained always give running commentaries and descriptive words that attempt to order your readers to think and feel the same as your writers about certain events.
Useful The big raging headlines on the International page give the mind and eye no room to think and decide if all of six hours. Further tests have indeed confirmed that long, simmering accidents place tremendous strain on both operators and emergency systems. that's the way they see things.
The reasons for this should be examined by all those who find this paper useful to them and who want to create an alliance of activists who can use it successfully to fight for the creation of a socialist society.
McDONALD Edinburgh Clearly absolute safety is an illusion, a fact echoed by the anti-nuclear lobby. They argue that LOFT offers incontestable proof that all nuclear plant is inherently unstable and so a public