IMGpapers 1976–79

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

Shutdown is vandalism

Socialist Challenge No. 75, 7 December 1978 · p. 3 of the scan · 252 words

The scan: sc-n75-dec-7-1978.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 3 of the scan

they every try, rules, which say that officers should act in a conciliatory •Wehaveto link the industrial the political. When management says the confron tation is about freedom and should say: "Yes, itis. Let'stalk about press have to break the economic stranglehold that the present owners nave over the their big business through advertising It allows the Sun to publish 32 pages anc while the left's From Dennis Potter, TV critic of the "Sunday Times".

I don't want to work for that management again. It's only a small, individual gesture, which will cost me a great deal, bu now they have closed the papers I will never go back The management is behaving abominably problem of British industry is to move from one kind of technology to another, and if management attempts to do that by confrontation, then are putting machines before people and amplifying fear unions, especially thecraft unions.

don't ASSUREC that technological change is unnecessary, DUL way Times Newspapers behaving is antique stupid industrial vandalism.

editorials pontificating to British indusshows that they present response are more capable of preaching than with dealing with an industrially complex problem.

I'm disappointed that the journalists on the Sunday Times have accepted management's proposals. It would have cos them nothing to have rejected them.

seemed that the unions were in the wrong. Now it will be clearer who the villains are. If the NGA sticks l OUL and if people support them, many more will begin to see what management has done.

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