Socialist Organiser

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

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Socialist Organiser no. 165, 9 February 1984 · scan pp. 1–2 · about 255 words

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involvement of israei and Arav capitalist states (like Saudi Arabia and Syria), backing sides in the war and changing sides in the war according to their own interests.

What was worse, the Lebanese National Movement - the oppressed Muslims and groups allied to the Palestinians - bowed to and worsened the increasing communal polarisation by dropping its anti-sectarian, secular programme in 1976.

An end to big power interference in Lebanon would help alleviate Lebanon's problems, but the anti-Falangist forces need to renew their commitment to a secular state, and seek to end the community-based sectarian nature of the conflict now if peace is to be secured. Centre pages: Smiles fadı in schools as Tories step up cuts.

Page 2: Councils Tories.

Page 3: GCHQ security?

Pages 6-7: US, Nicaragua Iraq, Egypt, Hungary. Pages 14-15: Shipyards, pits, rail, print.

Plus letters, reviews labour history. well and truly dead in British politics. As dead as the Argentine junta and the sailors on the Admiral Belgrano and HMS Sheffield.

If the TUC were not led by well-heeled office boys unfit to run a small works canteen; if thi Labour leaders were not Parliament-bound talk-mongers -then we could make it impossible for this government to continue to rule.

We could make it impossible for any government to rule Britain with the Thatcherite politics of social asset-stripping, attacks on democratic rights, and shameless indifference to the plight of the millions of capitalism's victims.

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