IMGpapers 1976–79

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1976–79

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Red Weekly No. 152, 27 May 1976 · p. 5 of the scan · 249 words

The scan: rw-no152-may-27-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 5 of the scan

of the traditional Scottish political parties has changed all this.

Disgust with the policies of the Labour Government and local councils has produced massive victories for the Scottish National Party in working class areas which have seen Labour majorities for Bo'ness and Maddison in central Scotland are just two examples. It is clear that the right-wing march of the Government and the complicity of the so-called 'lefts' is leading the Labour Party and the labour movement with it - to political disaster at the FIRST one choice: vote SLP.

Vote SLP But despite the downright opport unism of the SLP leadership, it cannot be forgotten that Sillars and Robertson were the only labour movement MPs to vote against the White Paper on the cuts, the only ones to suppor the recent conference on Scottish housing, and the first ones to support the ocupations of teacher training colleges against teacher unemployment. In a situation where the workers of Darnley have a choice between voting for the SLP or for a Labour candidate who supports and votes for the cuts, they have only Staff Federation Commenting on the annual conference o the Inland Revenue Staff Federation last week, an contonal mune Dany mau warned 'There is a strong whiff of class warfare about some of the rabble-rousing at Scarborough."

Regrettably, there was in fact very little indication of class struggle as the General Secretary of the tax officers

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