IMGpapers 1968–75

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

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Red Weekly No. 118, 25 September 1975 · p. 6 of the scan · 400 words

The scan: rw-no118-sep-25-1975.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.
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page 6 of the scan

As a result, the right-wing union leaders -in alliance with the right-wing of the Labour Party - were left free to organise their forces Despite the fact that every section of the Labour and trade union movement went on record against the EEC, no attempt was mac to impose these decisions on the parliament leadership of the Labour Party. Wilson was thus left free to sabotage the anti-EEC campaign and win a victory for the capitalists This prepared the ground for his latest offen sive against the working class The scheming of the right wing and its open class-collaborationist policies therefore turned working class advances into pyrrhic victories. Nor has the right wing restricted itself simply to manoeuvres. Like the ruling class whose interests it represents, it has resc to every vile method in the book to defend The despicable slanders used against Ton Kelly, the Shrewsbury 2 and the Clay Cross councillors illustrate this only too well. Wh Kelly said of the right wing that they don't fight clean, he was only too right. Wilson's Be The Labour Manifesto has acted like a po and trade union left and it is nou diffi The immediate crisis of British capitali:

the capitalist world. In neither France n government attempts to reflate the econo firm resistance by the American working far succeeded in reversing the downward t The US is thus likely to emerge from ti imperialist competitors. This will of cour alists to reflate their econimies via an exp financed British economy, wracked by lot The haleyon days are over. The conce relative ease are no longer there for the ta cut in living standards of at least 5.9 per c come the crisis of lack of profitability.

If the rate of inflation in Britain is to b competitors - then further huge cuts in p amount to as much as £6,000 million.

Since the spring of 1975 the Wilson Go toral rhetoric has now been replaced by h ing — all the essential trappings of the soc bone.

RE The demand to implement the Manifes the working class was actually making rea in one way or another opposed to Wilson ly pro-capitalist leaders of the Governmer "socialist solution to the crisis The removal of Benn as Minister for Ir The 'custodian' of Clause Four ha Furthermore, his removal was clearly tim been quietly aropped into the waste-pap

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