IMGpapers 1968–75

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

Lessons of U.G.S.

Red Weekly No. 124, 6 November 1975 · p. 6 of the scan · 145 words

The scan: rw-no124-nov-6-1975.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.
How this article was cut and titled: headline found by type size in the OCR geometry (split_tabloid.py); 2-3 of 5; machine-segmented newspaper page; uncorrected Vision OCR.

page 6 of the scan

at UCS staged a work-in. pus occupations in British universities, revived weeks. in the British working class ideas of industrial struggle hardly seen for over half a century. These new ideas were given substance by the workers in the yards of Upper Clyde ShipThe period immediately after the '68 events was a time when newly radicalised young workers - no longer dominated and controlled by Stalinism and Social Democracy, but inspired by the French events, the example of the Vietnamese national liberation struggle and the international solidarity campaigns, and the struggles of blacks and women - were discussing and considering new forms of indusThe social, economic and cultural conditions were such that industrial actions instead of remaining within the traditional forms could be taken to a new threshold. This happened in July 1971 when the workers The UCS work-in, and the other work-ins

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