IMGpapers 1976–79

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

VOTE AGAIN

· Socialist Challenge No. 37, 16 March 1978 · pp. 3-4 of the scan · 361 words

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to vote again.

unplied on Thursday 9 March that elected he would try and AUEW. He threatened: if the with democracy in ВЛЕ ОПА! that they wished in dispense periodically put would see an immediate end to berween the two political groupiogs?

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SOCIALIST CHALLENGE 16 March, 1978 page 4

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TERRY DUFFY is currently standing in the election for the presidency of the Amalgamated Union of Engineering Workers. 870,000 workers have the right to vote in this election. They should use that vote wisely, for if they do not, they may never have the right

← If you vote for this YOU MAY NEVEREngineers' pay claim The fight is onl y in quiet rooms →

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