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OPEN LETTER BOB PAISLEY

Red Weekly No. 200, 22 May 1977 · p. 8 of the scan · 550 words

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obedience lo denounced sach other as utterly degenerate and beyond salvation. It look sovaral day rally anc years belore the comitor courd creale one revolutionary par 01 course the CPa nad 1 wrong posnions on a number o Issues, In fact, all of them were ultra-left and sectarian. But Lenin's 3ed Internationa saw that those woaknesses would not be overcome without taking as symptomatic. Thay did at I present reasonsble struggle with the IMG. Unthi, an unless thay jand other lott group consider them as axamples of the WHS the hall-mark of the three CPs in the USA circa 1920.

JIM MASTERS (Notting Hill)

not suppon the hol atlacked in Red Weekly as using every dirty trick in the book"

I do not wish to belittle SUCCHAS DE LIR IMG and ASt Washwood Hosth and Saltlay. I would howaver like to point out that the Communist Party nationalily atood 273 candi and not 24 with 8442 votes Bi your articia stated.

This kind of muck-raking report can only lead to antagonism and articie seems to be in confiict with your ist Challenge: "to break out of the of lalt party chauvinism has to be combatted'. -MOCHIY NILLIAME (Saitley Communist Partyl The number of votes palled by the CP reported in Red Weekly com tered only the London vores o. the of the iMG. However, the Morning Star falled to even were six fimes those of the CP. Dear Bob Ir is somewhat gratesque thart shoura be word you di coon iener as mo isrer ?! a dovice we normally reserve for indivduale with whom ether foom af contser is ain BOS O ROSTS COBRESE although we are both mana abeit of diferent foot teams. teve beeo able to conmuni Boch ciner tom dur benche: on opposite sides ground.

vo-one dooors that you p the cost footbai team in T country, typified by the faci that you won the League, bur Inar does not mak only team. And, as John Mor 50p pained out, arrer Satur doing the Treble seem some Hemember how we user t Don Aole's proten nas ormuns ko normai Hunter can kick shir out of you Just loo where Revie is now!

Our fana discovened that mere was a graa! doal anothy and canicism on the part ofa Jarge number of people NITO Saturasy Betwann us we managed t scor three goais Ii don wen to rud in the could have secred if we had ali Len ia y da the game na thinh the time right tor a uniNer football ream surely it would POR DOSSIR NO MIMINH HESIT agreement whereby our defen era agreed not to lackle Stew heighway on the inft wing ant PICO CrUE PICI •think thar out pesi Micrones in Euroue ae a lessor which we could all leero trom 34-0 victory over the Finnish rests in the months and years will be coming up agains Moenchengiadbach Weonesdey How mich mone effectiva / vould da it we united ou Torces and sent 22 men ou no play in a united footbal Tommy Docherty a forgery, but as this is our laut isaue they can't sue us -od ABULISA ABOLISH THE MONARCHY and blue: axallable from Caledonian Rond. London

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