IMGpapers 1968–75

Newspapers of the International Marxist Group and its forerunners, 1968–75

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Red Weekly No. 114, 28 August 1975 · p. 7 of the scan · 401 words

The scan: rw-no114-aug-28-1975.pdf (PDF, Marxists Internet Archive, opens at this page)

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page 7 of the scan

Hated by the worst crisis to sweep Britain since the war.

these services will be regarded as an intolerable attack on the living standards of working people and a fundamental breach of the Social Contract.

PUBLIC EXPENDITURE of these services.

CUTS IN PUBLIC EXPENDITURE economies.

Congress declares that further cuts in public expenditure concerning National & Local Government Officers' Association Congress expresses its firm opposition to any reduction in the level of social and public services and calls on the General Council and affiliated unions to resist any cuts in public expenditure which will lower the standards National Union of Public Employees Congress is totally opposed to cuts in public expenditure on social services. It declares its conviction that the fabric of the education, health and social services must not be regarded as affording a means for exercising HOW TO FIGHT In early August the Tribune Group of MPs finally sounded the toesin. Coming years to secure a Labour majority, we are desperately anxious to avoid mistakes like those of the 1968-1970 period which inevitably lead to our defeat at the gress and the Labour Party Conference. to the capitalist policies of the Wilson Government.

ervedly at the service of the capitalist class.

allowed to run down even further. The workers' movement has to use its great strength to defeat these attacks and develop a strategy which will not only lead to the removal of the a socialist programme

TRIBUNE'S

out against the Labour Government's strategy the Group said: 'Having worked for po'ls.' The Tribune MPs aim to organise a campaign to muster opposition to the Government's pay laws, and hope to win majorities at both the Trades Union Con Clearly it is the responsibility of every socialist to encourage the most widespread opposition The fight against these is the great divide inside the labour movement. The Wilson Government has created a situation of mass unemployment. It has deliberately set out to cut working class living standards and has placed itself unres The attempt to impose a £6 wage limit is only one aspect of the Government's drive to slash living standards. It will be accompanied by even bigger cuts in public expenditure, and the already declining and inadequate social services will as part of calculated Government policy be right-wing leaders in the Labour Party, but will unite the working class around the struggle for DRAWING THE LINES

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