IMGpapers 1976–79

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

LABOUR POLICIES BOOST FASCISTS And this is the face of fascism today...

· Red Weekly No. 196, 28 April 1977 · p. 1 of the scan · 335 words

The scan: rw-no196-apr-28-1977.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

Uncorrected machine reading. This text was read by machine (Apple Vision OCR) from a scan of a newspaper page, and the page was cut into articles by machine, at the headlines found by their type size. Nothing has been corrected: expect misread words, text from a neighbouring article, and titles that are the machine reading of the headline, some of them only fragments. Quote from the scan, not from this page.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 1-6 of 7; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 1 of the scan

THIS is what fascism is all about. The demonstration with some friends, and All Out Against Benyon Bill 14 May and bitterness to feed on. The successes of ine National Front in recent by-elections, ineir probable gains coming local elections, are Causee nolove succes ses, but by others' failures.

Principally they are caused of the tradiov une tanures tional party of the working CaSS country, Labour Party. For voting support which the National Front is receiving comes from those who once voted Labour, or who normally are expected to do so.

It is Labour's failures which are boosting Front. To be more precise it is Labour's policies. The Labour Government is responsible for the massive growth in unemployment. It is responsible for the cut in living standards of people. It is policies which have the worsening conditions of housing, hospital tree men! and education. Accordingly it is only to -be expected mar others will reap the seeds of bitterness wice Labour Have sown.

A fascist take-over of this country is not on the horizon, but one of the pre-conditions which speed growth of Tascismis nere - the humiliation of the Labour Party.

That humiliation caused by the National Front. It is self-inflicted by the policies chosen to follow. Accordingly ine gni againsı tascism not just confined to the streets or to elections. it is concerned destroying the present policies of a Government that has long ago lost the right to caise socialist.

For a socialist opposition to Labour's policies!

* For a socialist opposition to the fascists!

new their caused not who stabbed the anti-fascist [right] on Saturday's anti-National demonstration in Haringey, North The fascist grabbed the comrade, who was walking apart from the main thug pictured left is allegedly the man pushedaknifeinto his face.

hand.

International Freelance Library photFront ographer Mark Rusher was only able to take these two pictures before police knocked the camera out of his * Full story on demonstration page 6. week

----- pull-quotes -----

Pho last London.

← SOCIALIST CHALLENGE TO BE LAUNCHED 9 JUNE Trotskyism todayPort Talbot strike →

Something wrong on this page?