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tricks of all time. five years in which a Labour government has carried through, with the help of some trade union leaders, one of the biggest confidence This one netted not just a few thousands for a down-at-heel travelling sales representative. but hundreds upon hundreds of millions for the City, for multinationals and the other collected industrialists and financiers who go to make up the big business ruling class in Britain today.
Crisis, amplified in Britain by the end the grip and multinationals, and invest at home, has been managed - one might even say stage-managed - ov a sovernment waich carne f power arguing that it alone could reestablish national unity in place of the controntation upon which the Heath administration was based.
But as is always the case with the reformist leaders on the right of the Party such appeals consensus and unity are in reality the disguise for a government programme hased on a ruthless policy of shifting the burdens of the crisis firmly onto the backs of working people.
have been advances. Any Labour administration, even one as weak in the Commons as the present one, could hardly preserve any degree of political weight and before the movement unless it did cater for some reforms.
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But whether it is on women or pensions public the government nas onl moved as far as it felt compelled to.
Behind this thin pale pink screen lies a centra Dank or Doney - the control of wages through the social contract.
Many, doubtless, genuinely believed Ine promises or acuon on nouses. public investment, and the like. The began to believe that wage rises did cause inflation, that if they held back on their pay claims then their real wages Those who refused to knuckle under were carefully cocooned away from the main strength of the whole movement — even so the firemen secured a certain breakthrough, while the government preterrea to conceae ol Day Lo Lis police and troops rather than face a growing demand for genuine trade unions amone tacu Communists have never considered that such wage policies can for long overcone ue contai class dictions inherent in capitalist Britain Under the Wilson government in 1969 we ureed mas. action to defeat the In Place of Strife' proposals.
When the Tories returned Downing Street OLI executive committee posed the objective blocking its anti-trade tarouen mass acuon action which could force the government to the poll before its five year term was up.
as the first cracks in the government's determination to face down the TGWU are showing. as ne DuDle CHIDOYCC are going into action with a marginal increase on the government's first offer have begun at this moment, the Callaghan Cabinet reaping the reward of its curbs and cuts For the Communist Party the need is both to work for a movement able to secure wage rises sufficient to restore living standards and advance them once again, and to work to see that this movement cara. and acquires commitment in action to a far broader alternative economic strategy as the core government.
will survive without the other. The left, though, will not build itself in divorce and isolation from the existing movement, in opposition to it, seeking to wreck it or disrupt it.
Callaghan SOUS colleagues in the Cabinet are far, very Lar om Civis was Their strength chows ine contated SUOrE TOOLsU reformism among our people But anyone who doubted that the organised movement unions at its heart, could be won for action has their answer now.
Communists, like many others on the left, like the Morning Star, striving to see that this opening is built policies changed to the left, the Tories defeated at the coming general election, and a committed - by policy and the might HERDOUT ZOYCEMCHL ECLUFBCU WU DOWC. of the movement — to real advance.
From strikes to socialism needs more than one step. It is always good to know, though, that the British working class is still a determined walker.
The hysteria of the right wing shows just how worried they quickening pace these past months.
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Star BRITAIN's working people are angry. And who could be surprised They have been cheated and deceived for nearly five years now -