Socialist Organiser

The weekly of the fused Workers Socialist League, July 1981 to April 1984

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Socialist Organiser no. 92, 8 July 1982 · scan p. 7 · about 138 words

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endorsement for the state of Israel coupled with numerous unchallenged statements about Arab "aggression" and the fear of "Arabs killing Jews" makes it yet another the Japs were a bunch of torturing slit-eyed maniacs while the US marines were tough but fair. Now we know that the Arabs are murdering anti-semites and that..

FROM most reports, you would think that the ralk- .. i.. 13 1L: - 1- 11. T.. - 11landislanders were enthusiastic champions of the British war in the South Atlantic..

An article in last Saturday's Financial Times by BBC correspondent Robert Fox. gives a different picture.

'Towards evening", he writes, 'the marines and paras moved towards Stanley. A few islanders stood in the silence of deep shock, some weeping openly. The winter campaign had distorted or destroyed their old way of life, perhaps forever"

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