IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Defend Andy Bevan

Red Weekly No. 170, 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 154 words

The scan: rw-no170-oct-14-1976.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 3 of the scan

Every demand must lead to the same practical conclusion - that the working class must control capital. We know that the working class does -nOL yet have experience to lULL socialist planned economy based on a workers The coming struggle against Labour's policies must be a school for the historic role that the working class must play, if the economic anarchv over which the labour GovYoung Socialists shows that this is merely an excuse.

other words. Whipped on by the right wing paranoia of the Fleet Street press and the rantings of Margaret Thatcher, Labour Party agents have mounted a campaign against the appointment of Andy Bevan as Labour's Youth Officer. Superficially they complain that Bevan lacks 'qualifications' for the post, but the fact that he has been chairperson of the Labour Party Behind the campaign is Bevan's support for the left-wing Militant - in the Labour Party agents' policy of non-cooperation

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