IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Hotting up

Red Weekly No. 170, 1976 · p. 3 of the scan · 281 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

For are immediate conronlalon whip the Labour left wing into place.

policies of class struggle rather than class collaboration.

porcies orte sociar contract One method is by hotting up the campaign to organise racist sentiments within the working class, rather than confining themselves to vague sentiments addressed to the middle class. John Biffen, Shadow Energy Secretary for the Tories, understands this and continues to pump out the Powellite line inside the Tory Party. But his influence is still marginal. Behind the directives of the Tory Party to its members to in volve themselves in the unions, the top Tories think that they can bring off a working relationship with the trade union leaders. Peter Walker has suggested a 'conservative compact. Thatcher has had talks with Murray on co-operation under a Tory Government. All of them know that chatte between the unions and the Tory Government is far from reality. Denis Healey's talk of 'rioting in the streets' if the Labour Government loses power is blustering, designed to Jones, Murray and Scanlon are dedicated to holding back mass action against the policies of the Labour Government, and they will play the same role under a Tory Government which takes power as a result of those policies. The failure of the 'lefts' and the Communist Party to organise the simmering discontent in the unions against the dominance of Jones and Co demands the creation of a left wing based firmly on the The threat of a National Government has been used as a justification for the support given to the social contract by the trade union leaders. But this is a diversion from the task of building mass action against the

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