IMGpapers 1968–75

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

COUNCILS: WORKERS

Red Weekly No. 2, 12 May 1973 · p. 4 of the scan · 150 words

The scan: rw-no2-may-12-1973.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 4 of the scan

it was very clear to ciass conscious workers that the General Strike was just such a decisive struggle, The basic practical question posed by the strike was whethes, and how, the Iabour movement could deleal the entire apparatus of the state, which was being thrown established chroughout the Labour movement, and the working class was watching every move by Lloyd George, Curzon and Chuschill towards war. Uinable to launch a full-scnle British military invasion of Russu, the governmest triod to push forward aggres sion via the Polish regime, which atlacked the Soviet Republie in April 1920, As the Daily Heraki progwernment posters appeared octtining military and navai preparations and announcing thut a call ass to be made for 200,000 yolunteers. The Deily Telegraph declared that Britain was conce again at August 1914. But there was one important difference betwoon Britail in 1914 and in Angust 192D: the working

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