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APRIL 29, 1982 (Claimants strikers, 10p) 25p "SOUTH Georgia was the appetiser. Now this is the prestige and glory by the admirals and generals and heavy punch coming up behind. This is the run-up to by the jingoistic Tories. Reactionary though Galtieri's the big match, which in my view should be a walk- occupation of the Falklands is, Argentina will have every right to defend itself against any attack by The warmongering bluster of Admiral Woodward, Woodward's forces on its own territory and people. chief of the British fleet in the South Atlantic, shows After approving the dispatch of the fleet, and after that the military top brass have got the bit between endorsing the seizure of South Georgia, now, on the their teeth. They are eager for battle, and becoming very brink of horrifying slaughter, Labour leader more trigger-happy as they are encouraged by Thatch- Michael Foot has started nervouslv to distance him.

By the time this Socialist Organiser reaches its But the war danger is increasing a great deal faster readers, they may have launched another assault as a than Foot's willingess to come out clearly against it. follow-up to South Georgia - if not a frontal assault Action by the Left and by the rank and file is on the Argentine occupation forces in the Falklands, which would be a very big and bloody affair, then * Withdraw the fleet. Repudiate all British claims some operation to establish a bridgehead on the Falk- to the resources of the South Atlantic. lands, or an attack on Argentine airfields. * Link up with Argentine labour to stop the war With each new battle, their taste for and to safeguard the rights of the Falklanders. Help be sharpened, and their opportunities to Argentine workers to organise, to win democratic rights, and to fight to overthrow Galtieri.

All this has little to do with the rights of the Falk- * Black military supplies to stop Thatcher's war! land Islanders. and a lot to do with the search for MAY DAY is International Workers' Day. And in 1982 it once again finds workers around the world locked in struggles for the most basic democratic rights, for national liberation, and for In El Salvador and other countries of Central and South America, the workers and peasants are in struggle against US-backed military -dictatorships. In Turkey the labour movement faces the savage violence of General Evren's NATO-backed junta.

And while British imperialism mounts its punitive raid in the South Atlantic, its troops continue to repress the Irish people with daily violence.

In Poland, the Solidarnose movement which grew in mass struggle from the summer of 1980 has heen driven underground by a AAVV brutal Stalinist bureaucracy.

To these workers in struggle, to the masses of black Africa, the toilers and oppressed on the Middle East and Asia, and to our fellow workers in Europe, East and West, the Editorial Board of Socialist Organiser sends this May Day our warmest solidarity and revolutionary greetings.

Workara of tha madli No.82 THE Irish Republican PoWs in Hull prişon wish to take the opportunity on international workers day, May 1, of sending greetings to the English, Scottish and Welsh working class and its revolutionary organisations.

We would like to send warmest thanks to the individuals and groups who have practised true international solidarity with the developing Irish revolution in the over... er's warcries. bloodshed increased. face of massive mediainspired hysteria and the intimidation by the state forces and anti-democratic laws.

We would like to ask the workers, youth and national warfare will step up the minorities not only to support the struggle for socialism and national independence in Ireland but to deepen the struggle for socialism at home.

While Ireland may be the self from Thatcher.

urgent. We must demand: Kick out the Tories. grave-digger of British Imperialism, it is the English, Welsh, and Scottish working class who will put it in the grave.

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